William Hardy Wilson b. 14 February 1881

Also known as Hardy Wilson, Billy Wilson
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Wilson was a Sydney-based interwar architect, artist, author, cartographer, orientalist and futurist. Furniture and furnishings by Wilson are known. He documents many historic houses and landscapes. Travelling in China in 1921, he also drew and printed a number of notable architectural sites and settings.

As well as being an important interwar period architect, Hardy Wilson was an artist who produced many paintings and drawings which often featured buildings and imagined landscapes. His first architectural commission was Meryon, a Sydney house built for artist and critic Lionel Lindsay. His best known commission was Eryldene a house built for Professor E.G. Waterhouse, a linguist and trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, in Gordon, Sydney.

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Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011