Editing Harry Seidler (section)

==Life in Australia==
[[File:RoseSeidlerHouseSulmanPrize.jpg|thumb|[[Rose Seidler House]], Wahroonga, Sydney, 1948–50]]
[[File:Australia Square Sydney 2007.JPG|thumb|Australia Square, Sydney, 1961–67]]
Seidler's parents migrated to Sydney in 1946, and (while he was working for Breuer in New York) in late 1947 or early 1948, his mother wrote to him to commission him to come to Sydney to design their home. Seidler arrived in Sydney on (likely) 20 June 1948 (which was a few days before his 25th birthday), with no intention to remain in Australia, but to stay only until the house was finished.<ref>"Ancestry.com flight records show Seidler left Honolulu for Sydney on 18 June 1948 on a Pan Am clipper flight And flight schedules show it took 2 days to reach Sydney.  So mistake in statements referring to arriving in July 1948 in Harry Seidler interview (oral history)" with Janis Wilton 1982, audio recording online at State Library of New South Wales [http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/society_art/seidler/interview.html sl.nsw.gov.au] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905021641/http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/society_art/seidler/interview.html |date=5 September 2017 }}</ref> The house became known as the [[Rose Seidler House]] (1948–1950), in [[Wahroonga]], in remote bushland of a suburb on Sydney's Upper North Shore. This project was the first completely modern domestic residence to fully express the philosophy and visual language of the Bauhaus in Australia and won the Sulman Award of 1951. From the huge publicity of this house, others approached Seidler to design their homes. With so many clients and his enjoyment of the Sydney climate and harbour views, Seidler decided to stay in Australia.<ref>Harry Seidler interview with Alan Saunders, ''By Design'', ABC (Australian Broadcaasting Corporation) Radio National, 18 July 1998; Harry Seidler "In Search of an Australian Style" article in ''Bulletin'' magazine Sydney issue entitled "Why Australia is the Best Place in the World to Live", pp. 60–64 at 60–61</ref> The Rose Seidler House became a house-museum in 1991.

In 1952, Seidler successfully appealed against [[Ku-ring-gai Council|Ku-ring-gai council's]] refusal to approve his design of a 'glass house' at Roseville.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1952-03-04 |title=Architect Wins Dispute Over House Design |pages=3 |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18257041 |access-date=2023-08-21 |archive-date=15 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615021213/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18257041 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1952-03-04 |title=Council agrees to new design |pages=7 |work=[[Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248743169 |access-date=2023-08-21 |archive-date=15 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615021112/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/248743169 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 1960s Seidler again broke new ground with his design for the [[Australia Square]] project (first designs 1961, plaza building 1962–64, tower 1964–67). At the time, the Australia Square tower was the world's tallest [[light weight concrete]] building. The design introduced the concept of a large public open plaza and prominent artworks to office towers in Australia.<ref name="arch" />

In 1966, he helped lead the protests to try to keep [[Jørn Utzon]] as the principal architect of the [[Sydney Opera House]].<ref name="tmwf">{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-31/peter-hall-architect-who-fixed-opera-house-after-utzon-departed/7127160 |title=The man who fixed the 'plain illegal' Sydney Opera House |date=31 January 2016 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=31 January 2016 |archive-date=11 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011012536/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-31/peter-hall-architect-who-fixed-opera-house-after-utzon-departed/7127160 |url-status=live }}</ref>

He was a founding member of the [[Australian Architecture Association]]. In 1984 he became the first Australian to be elected a member of the [[Académie d'architecture]], Paris and in 1987 was made a Companion of the [[Order of Australia]], an honour which he accepted in his trademark suit and bowtie. Over the years Mr Seidler was also awarded five Sulman Medals by the [[Royal Australian Institute of Architects]], as well as the [[Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal]] in 1976, and the [[Royal Gold Medal]] by the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] in 1996.

{{Blockquote|For 50 years Harry Seidler has played a vital role in international architecture. His work is widely recognised as an original and intensely creative contribution to the architecture of the second half of the 20th century.|Dennis Sharp in his introduction to the book ''Master architects: Harry Seidler''}}