Harry Seidler & Associates | Contact & Firm Profile

Harry Seidler & Associates is a closely knit team - a dedicated group of individuals, some of whom have collaborated effectively for more than 30 years. The firm has completed a great variety of buildings, from private residences, industrial buildings, hotels, high-rise offices and apartment buildings to regional developments providing a totally integrated environment.

Most of these projects have been in Australia; however, the firm has also undertaken work in South East Asia, Central America and Europe, including a social housing complex consisting of some 850 apartments, 14 cinemas, kindergarten schools and shopping, fronting the Danube in Vienna.

Harry Seidler and Associates group photo

For the size of the projects it undertakes, the team of Harry Seidler & Associates is relatively small. This allows its aims and approach to architecture to remain clear and direct, building upon and extending the tenets of Modern architecture.

Experience is carried forward from one project to the next, the team constantly evolving and developing its visual and technological base. Short-lived fashions and regressive stylisms are shunned; the aim of aesthetic and physical longevity predominates. Each project is developed as a totality, a Gesamtkunstwerk, wherein all the parts, down to the smallest detail of interiors and integrated works of art, receive equally dedicated attention.

The team has acted as construction managers/builders not only for its own headquarters in Sydney (in its evolution over some 20 years into a cohesive group of buildings), but also for other large commercial buildings.

image of Penelope Penelope Evatt Seidler
FRAIA B.Arch. Univ. Syd.
Wife of Harry Seidler, joined 1964. As well as being an architect, she is also a qualified accountant in charge of financial management. She is involved in the arts and has been a member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1973.

image of Peter Peter Hirst
AASTC. Univ. NSW
Australia Square, the Australian Embassy, Paris, the 42- storey Horizon apartment building and North Apartments. At this time he is overseeing Meriton Tower. Joined in 1961 and has been in charge of many large structures, residences, office buildings, art galleries, theatres and hotels, including Australia Square, the Australian Embassy, Paris and the 42- storey Horizon apartment building and North apartments. At this time he is overseeing Meriton Tower.

image of Greg Greg Holman
B.Sc.Arch., B.Arch. Univ. NSW
A student of Harry Seidler in 1979, joined in 1980. Team member on the Navy Weapons Workshop, Riverside Centre, Shell Headquarters and QV1. In charge of Basser, Merson, Bland and Pittwater houses. He was in charge of the Wohnpark Neue Donau project, was the team leader for Cove Apartments. and for the winning design of the Ultimo Aquatic Centre. Greg is currently overseeing construction of Riparian Plaza.

image of Gil Gil Williams
B.Arch. UTS
Joined in 1980 and has been a team member on many projects, specialising in construction technology. Construction manager on the two office extensions buildings in Milsons Point. Construction manager and builder on Elizabeth Street Offices. After overseeing the documentation, tender and initial construction phases of the Ultimo Aquatic Centre, he is now temporarily based on Hamilton Island to supervise the construction of a set of eight luxury townhouses.

image of John John Curro
B.Sc.Arch., B.Arch. Univ. NSW
Joined in 1983 and worked on the Navy Weapons Workshop. Project leader on the Capita Centre and the refurbishment of the MLC Centre. He was in charge of site planning and apartment detailing of the Wohnpark Neue Donau project in Vienna and was project architect for the Hochhaus Neue Donau in Vienna. Currently working as project architect on Riparian Plaza and overseeing design development of housing project Thürnlhof-West in Vienna, Austria.

image of Yoji Yoji Kurisu
B.Arch. Univ. Kinki
Born in Hiroshima, Japan, joined in 1984. Computer expert who developed detailing of the Milsons Point office extension buildings (including interiors and furnishings), Hilton Hotel and QV1 tower. He was in charge of computer documentation of the Wohnpark Neue Donau apartments, and is involved in numerous other computer imaging. Assisted with Cove Apartments, and is involved in numerous other computer imaging. Currently overseeing CAD documentation for Riparian Plaza.

image of Dirk Dirk X Meinecke
Joined in 1984 and worked on Riverside Centre, Shell House, QV1 and Farrell house before spending three years in Vienna as local liaison and site architect on the Neue Donau projects. Was responsible for apartment co-ordination on Cove Apartments , liaised with Austrian authorities and consultants on housing project Thürnlhof-West in Vienna; he also manages information systems for the office and acts as office pilot when required.

image of Hiromi Hiromi Shiraishi
B.Arch.Eng Kansai Osaka, M.Pl. UTS
Joined in 1993. Has worked on
Vienna Wohnpark, Cineplexx & Hochhaus, Horizon Apartments, Australia Council Building & fit-out as well as project leader on North Apartments. Currently working as project leader on Meriton Tower.

image of Philip Philip Pedashenko
B.Arch. Univ.NSW.
Joined 2002 as member of the Riparian Plaza team, concentrating on apartment fitout and services co-ordination. Currently he is overseeing the design and documentation for a single family residence in Vaucluse.

image of Jennifer Jennifer Pettit
Joined in 1984 and has become general office manager in charge of administration and world-wide communication for overseas projects.