Title & Author:

Architecture Responding to Nature / [presented by] Harry Seidler.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1993.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (35 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Harry Seidler -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. The Building & Cenotaph -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. Bamboo Scaffolding -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. Corner Detail -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. 35m Span Facade -- Hong Kong Club & Offices Typical Beams -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. Central Space In Club -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. Bottom Of Column & Beams -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. Central Space & Top Floor -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. View From Garden Lounge -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. Old Arches Re-Used -- Hong Kong Club & Offices. Garden Lounge -- Capita Building Sydney. Site Plan -- Capita Building Sydney. Top Floor Plan -- Capita Building Sydney. Model, Central Space -- Capita Building Sydney. View From Street -- Capita Building Sydney. Ground Floor 'Forest' -- Capita Building Sydney. View Up Through Central Space -- Capita Building Sydney. External Bracing Structures -- Capita Building Sydney. Ground Floor Restaurant/Bar -- Capita Building Sydney. Ground Floor Restaurant/Bar -- Capita Building Sydney. Ground Floor Mural By Lin Utzon -- Capita Building Sydney. Top Floor Mural -- Capita Building Sydney. Top Floor Reception Area.

Summary:

The late Harry Seidler was Australia's best known and most prolific architect, yet he resided and practised there only after 1949. Born in Vienna in 1923, he studied at Manitoba University and Harvard, and from 1946 - 1948 he worked with Marcel Breuer, followed by a short spell with Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil. But it was his collaboration with the Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi which proved a turning point in his approach both in the expression of structural form and the use of materials. Always a modernist, building technology is paramount for Seidler. In his talk, he concentrates on just two contrasting works: the Hong Kong Club built with local materials and taking advantage of the local labour-intensive construction industry: and the Capita office tower in Sydney in which he braces the face with a concrete filled steel trust, uses rich materials, and brings Nature into a spiralling atrium. The talk was recorded in London by Monica Pidgeon.

Subject:

Hong Kong Club.
Architectural design Australia.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural Australie.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design
Architecture, Modern
Australia

Added entries:

Seidler, Harry, 1923-2006, narrator.