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Seidler Session 6: Inhabiting Seidler
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Seidler Session 6: Inhabiting Seidler

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The lowdown

In our sixth Seidler Session, we reflect on the legacy of Harry Seidler's buildings.

About our speakers:

Richard Francis-Jones is an architect and Design Director of fjcstudio, known for leading the design of major cultural, civic and educational buildings in Australia and internationally.

Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon is State Librarian of New South Wales, a published author and curator of architecture and urban history whose work has focused on connecting people with culture, heritage and public places.

Penelope Seidler AO is the widow of Harry Seidler who she married in 1958, she is an architect and manages Harry Seidler Associates architects. She is involved with many cultural organisations.

Header image: Installation view from ‘Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler’, with Sol LeWitt, ‘Wall Drawing # 898’Irregular horizontal bands of color within a triangle.’ (for the Horizon tower lobby), 1998; Sol LeWitt, ‘Nine Linocuts’, 2006, Chau Chak Wing Museum, 2026. Photo: David James.

Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler was originally produced by the Chau Chak Wing Museum in collaboration with and presented at San Marco Art Centre, Venice in 2025.

The presentation during the Venice Architecture Biennale of Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler, received support from John Kaldor AO, the ALBN Foundation, the Keir Foundation, the Sarina Russo Foundation, and the Turnbull Foundation.

The Australian expanded exhibition of Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler, at the Chau Chak Wing Museum has received support from John Kaldor AO, the ALBN Foundation, the Sarina Russo Foundation, the Sherman Foundation, and the University of Sydney USA Foundation.

Where to rock up

Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Sydney

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