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  • Seidler in the Milsons Point apartment, 1995

    Seidler in the Milsons Point apartment, 1995

  • Harry Seidler, Architect

    • 1923-2006
      Born Vienna, 25 June 1923
      Died Sydney, 9 March 2006

    Education:

    • 1933-38 Wasagymnasium, Vienna.
    • 1938-40 Cambridgeshire Technical School, England.
    • 1941-44 BArch (1st Class Hons), University of Manitoba, Canada.
    • 1945-46 MArch, Harvard University, USA.
      Class of Professor Walter Gropius.
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      Seidler behind Walter Gropius in the Masters Class at Harvard, 1946
    • 1946 Black Mountain College,
      North Carolina, USA.
      Design Course under artist Josef Albers.
  • Career

    • 1945 Assistant to Alvar Aalto at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • 1946-48 Chief Assistant to Marcel Breuer, New York.
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      With Marcel Breuer in his New York office, 1968.
    • 1948 Travelled in South America and worked with Oscar Niemeyer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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      With Oscar Niemeyer (right) in Rio de Janeiro.
    • 1949 Started private practice, Sydney, Australia.
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      Consulting with Pier Luigi Nervi in Rome, 1972.
  • Academic Positions

    • 1976-77 Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA.
    • 1978 Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia Centre for Human Settlements, Canada.
    • 1978 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA.
    • 1980 Inaugural Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia.
    • 1984 Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, Australia.
    • 1993 Visiting Professor, Eidgenössische Technische Hockschule, Zurich, Switzerland.
    • 1993 Visiting Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
    • 1996 Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, Australia.
    • 1996 Visiting Committee, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA.
    • 2000 Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney, Australia.
  • Personal Honours

    • 1966 Honorary Fellow, American Institute of Architects.
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      Seidler with wife Penelope (in foreground) receiving an Honorary Fellowship from the American Institute of Architects, Denver, Colorado, 1966.
    • 1968 Pan Pacific Citation, American Institute of Architects.
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      Receiving the Pan Pacific Citation of the AIA in Hawaii, 1968.
    • 1970 Life Fellow, Royal Australian Institute of Architects
    • 1972 Officer, Order of British Empire.
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      With brother Marcell at the investiture as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Government House, Sydney, 1972.
    • 1976 Gold Medal, Royal Australian Institute of Architects
    • 1979 Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences
    • 1984 Member, Academie d’Architecture de France.
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      Becoming a member of the Academie d’Architecture in Paris, 1984.
    • 1987 Companion, Order of Australia.
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      Receiving Australia’s highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia, from the Governor-General, Sir Ninian Stephens, 1987.
    • 1987 Academician, International Academy of Architecture, Sofia
    • 1988 Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Manitoba, Canada
    • 1989 Gold Medal, City of Vienna, Austria.
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      Receiving the Gold Medal of the City of Vienna, 1989.
    • 1991 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Univ. of Technology, Sydney
    • 1996 Austrian Cross of Honour 1st Class, for Art & Science
    • 1996 Royal Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects
    • 1999 Honorary Doctor of Science, Univ. of NSW
    • 2000 Honorary Doctor of Science in Architecture, Univ. of Sydney
    • 2001 Honorary Member of the Israel Institute of Architects and Town Planners
    • 2002 The Golden Decoration for Services to the Viennese State

    See also: Harry Seidler visual chronology
    ?s=recognition&c=bibliographyHarry Seidler 4 Decades Visual Biography

    4.45Mb pdf scan of pages 388-425 of the Book ‘Harry Seidler Four Decades of Architecture’

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