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Architects

Image of Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler and Enrico Taglietti.

Many of Australia’s leading architects of the modern movement designed houses and buildings in Canberra. Along with a number of important local architects, they played a key role in the development of the city during the Twentieth Century.

The biographies

Here are some brief biographies of the architects you will encounter while reading about Canberra’s modernist houses—from little-known locals to Australia’s pioneering modernists.

  • Sydney Ancher
  • Robin Boyd
  • Ric Butt
  • Michael Dysart
  • Roy Grounds
  • Malcolm Moir
  • Kenneth Oliphant
  • Harry Seidler
  • Enrico Taglietti
  • Laurie Virr

About the author

This site is the result of my long-standing interest in Canberra's architecture, history and heritage. If you like this kind of thing you may also be interested in my photos of old Canberra at Flickr and various architecture links at Delicious.

 
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