Top centre: Perspective 1950 (University of Manitoba) showing Harry Seidler's article “Painting Toward Architecture” (University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections); and at top right: Arts and Architecture (November 1953) showing Harry Seidler, “Two Small Houses in Australia." At centre: Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (January 1963) with cover showing competition entries for the new Winnipeg City Hall. The winning entry by Green, Blankstein, Russell & Associates, as adapted for the new location on Main Street, is at bottom (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation); view of the model of Green, Blankstein, Russell’s winning entry for the Winnipeg City Hall competition. Henry Kalen, photographer, silver gelatin print (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation); Invitation to the “Reception and Dinner in Honour of Dr. Harry Seidler on the Occasion of his Winning the 1996 RIBA Royal Gold Medal,” London, England, 1996 (Herbert Enns): Viennese-born Harry Seidler moved to London and was interned as an enemy alien in 1940. Soon after he was sent to a camp in Quebec before being allowed to enroll in the BA program in Architecture at the University of Manitoba. In a 1988 interview with Robert Enright he remembered: “The Bauhaus movement was just starting to be taught. This was all revolutionary and new... It was designing modern buildings as they saw it. As soon as Russell said ‘Bauhaus’ my ears pricked up because I recognized the things from home.” Seidler's 1944 thesis project, a block of apartments for Norwood in Winnipeg, demonstrated that the International Style was already current at the University of Manitoba. After graduation Seidler moved to Toronto where he worked and registered as an architect in March 1945 before going to do graduate work with Gropius at Harvard in 1945-46. In 1946, on Gropius’ recommendation, Seidler took Josef Albers’ summer course on colour and design at Black Mountain College. That fall Seidler moved to New York to work with Breuer on a series of houses, an experience that would influence his own practice, which he set up in Sydney, Australia after moving there in 1948 to join his family. Seidler is credited with bringing both Modernist architecture and Bauhaus ideas to Australia. He is the first “starchitect” to emerge from the University of Manitoba. At bottom: Creative Campus, 1953, University of Manitoba, showing an advertisement for Hignell Printing Ltd., employing the plan and view of the James Donahue Residence II, 1955; John Peter, Masters of Modern Architecture, New York: George Braziller, 1958, open to show Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Chamberlain House, Sudbury, MA, 1939 (Unless otherwise indicated, items are from a private collection and the University of Manitoba Libraries)