Seidler
Harry Seidler, possibly Australia's most controversial and celebrated architect, died last week aged 82. There isn't much of his work here in Perth, but I do love QV1, the office tower he designed around 1990 and while I've never been there I'm a big fan of his Rose Seidler House from the 1950's.
"It's like listening to beautiful music or listening to poetry and that's what really is the essence of those buildings that I respect so much. They are poetic. Beautifully conceived and they give deep rooted pleasure."
(Seidler, in a Sunday cover story in 1998; there's more on his legacy from the ABC's 7.30 Report)
Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 and filed under Life.
