In Harry Seidler, Riverside Centre. Cammeray: Horwitz Grahame, , p. Copyright About the website Website design all-sorts websites. Chris Abel References 1. But Horizon is made possible by devices such as prestressed concrete which is And that also gives you greater freedom of the shapes that you can use.
Nowadays we can span huge distances and to do so by not just putting steel mesh or something into the concrete but to put steel, high tensile steel wire into it and pull it tight and that makes it easy to span distances and give this kind of change of shape of a building which would have been very difficult to achieve any other way. His visual approach to two-dimensional and three-dimensional spacial arrangement was consistent throughout his whole career. He articulated his approach in his first work, the Rose Seidler House.
In , Seidler acknowledged that that his first house Rose Seidler House which was built of timber, despite the north facing sunshades "is generally too vulnerable to temperature changes Thus, later in his career, he sought to use more thermally stable materials like reinforced concrete and to respond to Australian climate by the extensive use of sunshades and flamboyantly-shaped rain protecting canopies on his skyscrapers, such as Grosvenor Place, Riverside Centre, and QV1 , large covered balconies in his houses, as well as shaping his designs to maximize views and enjoyment of the outdoors from inside.
Seidler was a frequent and enthusiastic collaborator with visual artists in the creation of his buildings. While his collaborators include famous or notable figures such as Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Lin Utzon, Victor Vasarely, Norman Carlberg a fellow but later student of Josef Albers , 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' and 'The Wrestle'. Many of Seidler's designs were a highly demonstrative enactment of his Modernist design methodology, which he saw as an amalgam of three elements: social use, technology and aesthetics.
He always insisted that he had no fixed 'style', since these three elements were in constant flux, and so his work constantly evolved throughout his 57 years of designing in Australia. He appeared impervious to recent trends in architecture, such as the stylistically broader and post-modern styles expressed by younger contemporaries such as Glenn Murcutt.
Modernism and principles of design Many of Seidler's designs were a highly demonstrative enactment of his Modernist design methodology, which he saw as an amalgam of three elements: social use, technology and aesthetics. The form of Seidler's work changed as building technology changed: from his timber houses in the s, to reinforced concrete houses and buildings in the s, and the development of curves with advances in concrete techhnology in the s and later, as well as developments in steel technology that allowed for curved rooves in the s onwards e.
Berman House. Upon celebrating 50 years of architectural practice in Australia, Seidler noted that developments in building technology allowed for more richness of form in his then soon-to-be completed Horizon apartment tower: "I could not have built Horizon twenty years ago Completed in , and the first of many skyscrapers to march across Australian cities from the Seidler studio, Blues Point Tower was named after Billy Blue, an illiterate Jamaican transported in for stealing a bag of sugar.
For many years, Blue worked a ferry across Sydney harbour and lived in a cottage where Seidler's still controversial tower has stood for the past 45 years. Seidler, who has died aged 82, was given to making sweeping and arrogant statements about the nature of modern architecture and the role of those it was designed to serve.
He was an architect king whose work inspired delight and anger in equal measure. This was not something that Seidler thought Australians were much good at.
He told the Age newspaper, in "There's nobody and nothing here that sends the blood pressure up. It's a backwater; a provincial dump in terms of the built environment.
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