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Portrait of Harry Seidler

Max Dupain · Public domain

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.

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