Harry Seidler

Born in Vienna, Austria, Harry Seidler studied architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg before winning a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied under Walter Gropius. He also studied under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and was the chief assistant to Marcel Breuer in New York from 1946 to 1948. He worked with Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro before opening his own practice in Sydney in 1949. He taught at Harvard School of Design, ETH in Zurich, and University of Sydney. In 1996, Seidler was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal. He died on March 9, 2006.