A HOUSE FOR MY FAMILY
Sydney
He was only twenty five when Harry Seidler built his first house, bringing Bauhaus modernism to Sydney’s North Shore. Now part of Australia’s history, the Rose Seidler House, built for his mother, and to bring the family together in their country, is open to the public as part of the Sydney Living Museums.
Today, Harry Seidler is an Australian icon, named by People Magazine as the “Highest Priest of the New Century”, and his designs have both changed the skyline of Sydney’s CBD and how people live within private homes. Harry remained, modernising the face of architecture of Australia. Now the Rose Seidler House is one of twelve houses in Sydney’s Living Museum’s collection, open to the public as a glimpse into start the modernist living in the 1950s.
Harry searched for a location that would envelope the home without the Australian blush, “so that you’d really have a beautiful natural environment in which to place crystallic, man-made thing”. He chose a piece of land in the suburb of Walroonga, an area that was quite remote from the city centre in the 1950s, enamoured with the bushland. Rouse Seidler House was built as one of three, a style of collective living that was unusual at the time, designed to reunite the Seidler family on a single property after they were separated by war.
Read the whole story in issue No. 4
Text by Marisa Garrefa www.mondodicorpio.com.au
Photography by Luisa Brimble www.luisabrimble.com
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