Editing Harry Seidler (section)

==Collaboration with visual artists==
Seidler was a frequent and enthusiastic collaborator with visual artists in the creation of his buildings. While his artist collaborators include famous or notable figures such as [[Alexander Calder]], [[Frank Stella]], [[Lin Utzon]], [[Norman Carlberg]], Charles O. Perry (the last two were fellow but later student of [[Josef Albers]]), [[Helen Frankenthaler]], [[Sol LeWitt]] and many others, by far the most important of the collaborators was his mentor Albers. Seidler included works by Albers – perhaps the single person most influential on his design philosophy – in a number of projects (notably the MLC Centre with 'Homage to the Square' (later repurchased by the Albers Foundation,  and Albers' last commissioned-design 'Wrestling' on the eastern side of MLC Plaza). Seidler also arranged in 1966 for the Australia Square tower ground lobby to display tapestries by Le Corbusier and [[Victor Vasarely]] – these were replaced in late 2003 by the Sol LeWitt mural. Seidler also selected and paid for Australian artworks to be shipped in 1977 to be ready to be displayed for the opening of the Australian Embassy in Paris in early 1978.<ref>Harry Seidler Project Report: 1975–1977; 'Paris Art', being correspondence with textile artists concerning proposed purchase of artworks for the Australian Embassy Paris. Harry Seidler Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Call No.: MLMSS 7078/15); ABC TV news footage from 30–31 July 1977,</ref>  As Paul Bartizan indicates in his obituary tribute to Seidler, these works of art were not mere '[[plop art]]'; they were really planned to be integrated with and complementary to the buildings into which they were placed: "In many of his projects, Seidler worked with artists whose works became an intrinsic component of his designs."<ref name=wsws>{{cite web |url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/seid-j20.shtml |title=Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia |access-date=2008-01-07 |date=2006-06-20 |publisher=World Socialist Web Site |archive-date=16 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216062310/http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/seid-j20.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>