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Summary
Summary
Chronicles the work of the distinguished Australian architect, born in Vienna in 1923. Gives a critical overview of Seidler's architectural development and includes a theoretical statement from him entitled TPlanning and Architecture at the End of Our Century'. Lavishly illustrated with rough sketches, architectural drawings and colour and black-and-white photographs.
Author Notes
Kenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.
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Choice Review
Imagine an architect whose career began shortly after he fled Nazi Germany in 1945. He trains at Harvard under Walter Gropius, works briefly with Marcel Breuer, then finds his way to Australia where he becomes the leading practitioner of Modernism, aided in the large scale public and commercial commissions of his mature years by the renowned master of ferro-cemento, Pier Luigi Nervi. If Harry Seidler's career sounds novel-like, at the hands of William Jordy (Introduction), Philip Drew (Seidler's early, domestic work), and Kenneth Frampton (Seidler's later public and commercial work), and with a splendid visual presentation by Thames & Hudson, Harry Seidler assumes his rightful place as a major figure in the second phase of the modern movement in architecture. Following the Drew and Frampton critical essays, the book is organized as a catalog of Seidler's work with 1,463 illustrations, 181 in color. A biographical chronology of 38 pages and a selected bibliography conclude the text. Advanced undergraduate; pre-professional; graduate. J. Quinan; SUNY at Buffalo
