Seidler Session 4: Architects on Seidler’s Legacy

Andrew Andersons, Ed Lippmann and Peter Lonergan in conversation. In our Fourth Seidler Session architects reflect on Seidler's legacy About our speakers: Andrew Andersons AO is an architect who designed the extension to the AGNSW in the late 1960s, and to NSW Parliament House and SLNSW in the 1970s. Between 1989 and 2013 he was Director of Peddle, Thorp and Walker, and now works as a freelance architectural consultant. Ed Lippmann is an architect who worked in Marcel Breuer’s NY office before establishing Lippmann Partnerships which has designed major projects such the Andrew ‘Boy’ Charlton Pool, 8 Chifley Square and the recreation centre at the Rocks. Peter Lonergan is an architect and co-director of Cracknell & Lonergan founded in 1984, that works across the fields of architecture, interior design, heritage conservation, public art, exhibition curation and publishing. 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.