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Synopsis
Windows on the world Architect Harry Seidler has spent more than 50 years traveling the globe, extensively photographing the peak achievements in architecture from 3000 B.C. to the present day. This collection of highlights from Seidler's opus offers armchair travelers, students, architecture buffs, and historians the opportunity to browse the buildings of the world through one man's photographs.
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About the Author
Born in Vienna, Austria, Harry Seidler studied architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg before winning a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied under Walter Gropius. He also studied under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and was the chief assistant of Marcel Breuer in New York from 1946 to 1948. He worked with Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro before opening his own practice in Sydney in 1949. He has taught at the Harvard School of Design, the ETH in Zurich, and the University of Sydney. In 1996, Seidler was awarded the RIBA gold medal. He died on March 9, 2006.
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"Whether you take the book with you on your travels or read it on the sofa, you couldn't have a better guide." Good Reading Magazine, Sydney, Australia"
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- PublisherTaschen America Llc
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 3822838748
- ISBN 13 9783822838747
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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