Leo Tishler was born in Sydney, Australia in 1939. He grew up in the suburbs of Melbourne and studied architecture at RMIT University. He completed his degree in London at the Polytechnic of the South Bank and began working in London at Fitzroy Robinson and Partners as a design architect. During his time in England, he began extensive travels throughout Europe, and settled finally in Greece on the island of Paxos where he stayed for a year, living the life of a local Greek villager and trying to live in harmony with nature.
While on Paxos, he discovered the beginnings of his revolutionary system of healing by observing the simple and in-tune life of the Greek villagers on the island. He asked himself why the Greek villagers were so happy and healthy compared to people he had observed back in London.
He travelled around the world, working as an architect and over many years began to accumulate experience from various cultures and healing systems which added to his growing awareness that humankind was not living in harmony with the ecosystems in nature. This led in turn to his involvement in the burgeoning movement in architecture that focuses on bio-harmonic and sustainable structures, which is today on the verge of entering the mainstream.
He currently divides his time between living in the hills on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia and the Greek islands.
His house in Melbourne, built on the edge of the state-owned forest, was designed around the principles in the book The Healthy House, written by Sydney & Joan Baggs and his own theories of bio-harmonic structures.
