Special Curatorial Presentation

Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design illustrated lecture traces the life and work of Sydney architect Harry Seidler (1923-2006), his key role in bringing Modernism and Bauhaus principles to Australia, identifies his distinctive architectural style, and explores long-lasting collaborations with leading creative figures of the 20th century, including with architects Marcel Breuer and Oscar Niemeyer; artists Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Norman Carlberg, Charles Perry, Frank Stella, and Lin Utzon; engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, photographer Max Dupain, and developer Gerardus Dusseldorp. In almost sixty years, Seidler has realized over 160 of his designs—from houses to mixed-use multi-story towers and prominent government commissions—all over Australia, as well as in Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Apart from the architect’s creative achievements, the lecture will reveal a story of Seidler’s life, a fascinating journey from his motherland of Austria to England, Canada, the United States, Brazil, and finally, to Australia, where he settled in 1948, eventually becoming the country’s most accomplished architect. Among projects to be discussed: Rose Seidler House (1950), the architect’s house (1967), Australia Square Tower (1967) – all in Sydney; Edmund Barton Building (1974) in Canberra, Embassy of Australia (1977) in Paris, Hong Kong Club (1984) in Hong Kong, Shell Headquarters (1989) in Melbourne, and residential complex Wohnpark Neue Donau (1998) in Seidler’s native Vienna.

Vladimir Belogolovsky is the founder of New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project, which focuses on organizing, curating, and designing architectural exhibitions worldwide. Trained as an architect at Cooper Union in New York, he has published over 150 articles in American, European, and Russian publications, as well as several books including Felix Novikov for the series Masters of Soviet Architecture, GreenHouse on leading sustainable projects, and Soviet Modernism: 1955-1985, which was coauthored with architect Felix Novikov.

Belogolovsky is the American correspondent for the Russian architectural journal TATLIN. Since 2007, he has been professor, and since 2010, a corresponding member, at the Moscow branch of the International Academy of Architecture. He has curated a number of exhibitions, including the foreign section of the Russian Pavilion at the 11th Architecture Venice Biennale, a retrospective of the work of Ángel Fernández Alba at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid, Spain, and the GreenHouse exhibition at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall at Moscow’s Zodchestvo-2009 International Architectural Festival that traveled to Latvia, Australia, and New Zealand in 2011. He has presented leading Russian architects at the Center for Architecture in New York and has given lectures at universities and architectural centers in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Latvia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, Russia, and the United States. He is currently working on a book, Harry Seidler: The Art of Collaboration (Rizzoli with Massimo Vignelli) to be released in 2014, and is curating a Harry Seidler traveling exhibition to go to Tallinn, Riga, Paris, Houston, North Carolina, Winnipeg, and Sydney from 2012 to 2014.