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An intimate biography of the influences - human, political and artistic - which shaped the life of Harry Seidler, disciple of Bauhaus architecture. ""The story of Harry Seidler is one of remarkable tenacity, belief and vision that are apparent in the structure of his life, his architecture and in his equally distinctive nature artistic tastes."" (Edmund Capon)

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Harrys 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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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 and Miles Franklin which were performed in several Australian cities. Her biography Almost Full Circle on the international architect and proponent of modernism Harry Seidler was published by Brandl & Schlesinger. 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, Australias training institute for students in the performing arts, and is currently the Chair of Sculpture by the Sea, the international sculpture exhibition on the shores of Bondi and Cottesloe in Perth.

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