HARRY SEIDLER 1955 / 63
Dr. Reyner Banham [Introduction]
Dr. Reyner Banham [Introduction]: HARRY SEIDLER 1955 / 63. Sydney: Horwitz Publications Inc., 1963. First edition. Text in English, French and German. Oblong quarto. Tan cloth stamped in brown. Photographically printed dust jacket. 216 pp. Photographs, plans and illustrations. Distributor's stamp [Wittenborn] on title page.
Jacket worn and chipped at spine crown. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 11.25 x 9.75 rare hardcover book with 216 pages and approx. 350 b/w illustrations. From the book: "Born in Vienna, Seidler was trained in America in the Bauhaus tradition under some of the world's great masters, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and the painter Josef Albers. The winning of the Sir John Sulman Medal for the first house he built in 1949, established him as a leader in design in Australia and also brought him to public notice as a controversial architect who often had to defend his designs to local government authorities, even in courts of law."
Contents
- Introduction by Dr. Reyner Banham
- Publisher's Foreword
- On Architecture by Harry Seidler
- The Climate
- Houses
- Multiple Dwellings
- Offices, Industrial, Communal
- Urban Design
From the web site for the Australian Institute of Architects: "Harry Seidler is arguably Australia's most internationally recognised iconic architect. For 57 years, he has been changing and influencing the shape of architecture in Australia. He is best known for buildings that have changed the skyline of Sydney's CBD and surrounds over the past 45 years. These include Australia Square, the tallest light weight concrete building in the world at the time it was built, the 43-storey Horizon Apartments, and one of the most maligned buildings in Australia - Blues Point Tower. He has lectured extensively at universities in Australia and overseas, and has received a plethora of honours, state, national and international architecture awards."
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