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Harry Seidler
Austrian-born Australian architect
1923 – 2006aged 82
An Austrian-born architect who fled the Nazis as a teenager and became one of the first to bring Bauhaus modernism fully into Australian building, designing roughly 119 structures across a 58-year career centered in New South Wales. He won architectural awards across residential, commercial and public-sector work every decade of his career, while remaining an outspoken and often controversial critic of Sydney's planning authorities.