SINGAPORE - Harry Seidler exhibition February 16-March 8
Modern architect Harry Seidler who practiced in Australia 1948-2005 exhibition and also the artist and his mentors and collaborators including Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Pier Luigi Nervi. And also the artists (Seidler's teacher) Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Norman Carlberg, Charles O. Perry, Frank Stella, Lin Utzon and Sol LeWitt.
Singapore , Singapore
4 Architecture Drive Department of Architecture
HARRY SEIDLER - Painting Toward Architecture Exhibition
February 16- March 8, 2023
National University of Singapore
Department of Architecture
SDE 3 LEVEL 4, LT 422
opening night lecture and curator tour 16 Feburary 6.30pm
then 9am-9pm every day (closes 8 March)
Modern architect Harry Seidler (born 1923 in Vienna, Austria and died 2006 Sydney, Australia ) first studied and registered as an architect in Canada in early 1940s, then studied under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1945-46, then studied visual aesthetics and design under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in Summer 1946. Then Seidler was the first employed architect under Marcel Breuer in his New York practice September 1946-March 1948 and worked with Oscar Niemeyr in Brazil April- Mid June 1948. Then his mother's call to come design his parents house in their new homeland of Australia led to arrive in Sydney in late June 1948 to design Rose Seidler House (1950) now a house museum.
Seidler designed award winning houses every decade of his career and did skyscraper office towers in the major cities of Australia. He first collaborated with Pier Luigi Nervi for Australia Square (1967) and later designed the Australian Embassy in Paris (1978) with Marcel Breuer as his project architect. Seidler also designed the Hong Kong Club (1984) and Wohnpark Neue Donau in vienna (1999)
Seidler had a close relationship with the artists whose works are integrated into his major commissiones inlcluding Alexander Calder, Norman Carlberg, Charles O. Perry, Frank Stella, Lin Utzon and Sol LeWitt. the exhibition showcases Seidler's life, his architecture and his relationship with his mentors, collaborators and artists.
the exhibiton is the final of a touring exhibition by Vladimir Belogolovksy of Intercontinenal Curatorial Project
