Harry Seidler

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Harry Seidler
Born	(1923-06-25)25 June 1923 Vienna, Austria
Died	9 March 2006(2006-03-09) (aged 82) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Citizenship	Australian
Occupation	Architect
Known for	modern tower and plane designs
Children	2

Harry Seidler AC OBE (25 June 1923 – 9 March 2006) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.

Seidler designed about 119 buildings (96 of which were in his home state of New South Wales) but some have since been demolished or altered in a non-Seidler manner, and he received much recognition for his contribution to the architecture of Australia. Seidler consistently won architectural awards every decade throughout his Australian career of almost 58 years across the varied categories – his residential work from 1950, his commercial work from 1964, and his public commissions from the 1970s. He was a controversial figure throughout his long career as he regularly publicly criticised planning authorities and the planning system in Sydney.^[1]