FREE LECTURE:
  Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture
  - ALVA Seminar Series G22
		
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:00 - Lecture Theatre G22, Ground Floor Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts
		
Vladimir Belogolovsky
Vladimir Belogolovsky will trace the work of Australia's most prominent
architect of the 20th century, Harry Seidler (1923-2006), examining his
distinctive place and hand within and beyond modernist design
methodology.  Some of the architect's key projects - from single family
houses to multi-story residential and office towers to civic, sports and
cultural centres, as well as important government commissions realized
in Australia, Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Mexico and Hong Kong-will
be discussed to bring to focus Seidler's many long-lasting creative
collaborations with progressive artistic visionaries: architects Walter
Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Oscar Niemeyer; engineer Pier Luigi Nervi;
artists Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Norman Carlberg, Sol LeWitt,
Charles Perry, Frank Stella, and Lin Utzon; and photographer Max Dupain.

Harry Seidler was the first architect to full express Bauhaus principles
in Australia by building his first Project for his parents, the Rose
Seidler House (1950) in Wahroonga, Sydney.  All his life he was, in his
own words, "the torchbearer of modern architecture" and a sincere
missionary for the cause of modernism and its ideology to make the world
a better place.  From the 1970's on, Seidler's hand became increasingly
influenced by modular works of American abstract expressionist painters
and sculptors, particularly Norman Carlberg, Charles Perry and Frank
Stella, evolving into a distinctly personal artistic language yet to be
recognised by the profession internationally.  Seidler's late work,
however free and sculptural, is never arbitrary.  His majestic forms
were perpetually defined by rational planning, efficiency of
standardised construction, social and environmental considerations, and
always aiming to achieve the greatest artistic effect with the least
effort.

Vladimir Belogolovsky is the Author of Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli,
2014); curator and designer of Harry Seidler: Painting Toward
Architecture ongoing traveling exhibition presented since October 2012
in Moscow, Vienna, Barcelona, Sofia, Riga, Houston, Sao Paulo, Rio de
Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Sydney.
		
For more information:
  Elizabeth Michael
  elizabeth.michael@uwa.edu.au

Starts       : Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:00
Ends         : Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:00
		
Last Updated : Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:48