- Small Groups Group Size Small Groups
- 2.5 Hours Duration 2.5 Hours
Getting beyond the postcard view of the city and its two shimmering icons, ‘Harbourings’ reveals Sydney at her rawest and most spectacular, her most self–conscious and most corrupt!
Quick Details
Duration: 2.5 hours
We will explore the urban and architectural ideals at the heart of modernism; ideas borrowed from the great Europe and North American cities in the early 20th Century, and discuss the mediating factors of distance, culture, technology, politics and environment as we search for the influence of modernity on contemporary Sydney.
Modernism’s twin strands will be our guide. The decorative, user-friendly style of art deco that concerned itself with the aesthetic or the idea of the machine rather than the machine itself – beautifully realised in Emil Sodersten’s QBE on Pitt Street. We will also look at some wonderful examples of the work of more ‘serious’ modernists like Harry Seidler, finishing with the flowering of many of these ideas in seminal projects by Renzo Piano and Jørn Utzon.
Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park. Meet on the northern side near the “Pool of Reflection”. 2 minutes walk from Museum Station
Does this tour almost meet your needs, but you would like to customise a few options?
Email us at [email protected]
SAW is a member of Guiding Architects, the international network for high-quality architecture tours.