As a part of Sydney's Living Museums event, I visited the house Harry Seidler designed for his mother, Rose Seidler, in Wahroonga, North Sydney.
The landscape was strikingly raw and beautiful, surrounded by bushland, the views were open yet enclosed by nature. There were no other noises apart from the laughing kookaburras, and the house was like a modernist spaceship floating gently on the land. The interiors was inviting, compact, and spacious.
Light, colour and framed views were dominant players of the space, and most of all, simplicity and functionality were present everywhere.
The house does not blend into the landscape, but neither does it dominate nor intrude in anyway. It is like a nest that sits comfortably within its surroundings, watching, listening, breathing.
