Harry Seidler, AC OBE (25 June 1923 – 9 March 2006) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.
Harry Seidler designed more than 180 buildings and he received much recognition for his contribution to Architecture of Australia. Seidler consistently won architectural awards every decade throughout his Australian career of almost 58 years across the varied categories - his residential work from 1950, his commercial work from 1967, and his public commissions from the 1970s.
Seidler was born in Vienna, the son of a prosperous Jewish manufacturer. name="times">"Harry Seidler Obituary". timesonline.co.uk. 2006-03-09. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article741436.ece. Retrieved 2008-07-22. </ref> He fled as a teenager to England soon after Nazi Germany occupied Austria in 1938.
In England, he studied building and construction at Cambridgeshire Technical School. In May 1940, he was interned by the British authorities as an enemy alien, before being shipped to Quebec, Canada and continued to be interned until October 1941, when he was released on parole from internment to study architecture at the University of Manitoba.