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Formidable designer Derek Wrigley, passed away last month, aged 97. You can find his obituary on the ArchitectureAU website and the DIA’s (Design Institute of Australia) website. I knew and worked with Derek for some years in Canberra and I think his design interests were so broad and deep that his exploits could have filled four lives.
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Derek Wrigley graduated in architecture from the Manchester College of Art in 1945 and worked briefly in the UK before emigrating to Australia in 1947. Very soon he purchased an abandoned quarry in Dee Why on the NSW Northern beaches for £100, and he set about building a house, which he called OB1 (for owner builder).
Harry Seidler, the great disruptor of modern Australian architecture
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hat would Harry do? Since 1961, not a tap nor a tile in the home that internationally celebrated modern architect Harry Seidler designed for the Weinreich family was changed without his advice.
With its circular dining room and round table set with lime-green table mats and orange napkins under a massive skylight, the Weinreichs glass-fronted home in Sydney s east is frozen in the swinging 60s. I wanted light because we were in the darkness during the Holocaust, says Aneta Weinreich, now in her 90s. Nearly all of Aneta and Joseph Weinreich s families were killed by the Nazis in Poland.