No of Pages: 390
RRP: 49.95
ISBN Print: 1 876040 15 7
Almost Full Circle
This is the intimate story of the influences – human, political and artistic – which shaped the life of Harry Seidler, disciple of Bauhaus architecture. Alice Spigelman explores Seidler’s introduction to architecture as a schoolboy in England, the country which betrayed him; his internment in Canada; his Harvard years as a student of Gropius and Marcel Breuer, and finally his years in Australia and the forty year love-hate relationship between him and his critics.
“Harry’s life is a testimony to a quiet yet remorseless determination and a clarity of objective that are apparent in the structure of his life, his architecture and even in his equally distinctive and mature artistic tastes.” Edmund Capon
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About the Author
Alice Spigelman was born in Hungary and moved to Sydney as a child with her family in 1956. She has written plays about psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf, Miles Franklin and about the burden carried by the children of Holocaust survivors titled A Kind of Reunion. Her biography Almost Full Circle on the international architect and proponent of modernism Harry Seidler was published by Brandl & Schlesinger. Her last book The Budapest Job explores what happens when atrocities are buried and perpetrators go unpunished, set in 1989 in post-communist Hungary and Sydney. She has reviewed books for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and given talks on subjects such as Catherine the Great, Harry Seidler and literary fiction and biography. She was a director of Australia for UNHCR and NIDA, Australia’s training institute for students in the performing arts, and was the Chair of Sculpture by the Sea, the international sculpture exhibition on the shores of Bondi and Cottesloe in Perth.
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