NEW ZEALAND MASTER CLASS 27 SEPTEMBER - 03 October 2009
VENUE: AWAROA LODGE, ABEL TASMAN NATIONAL PARK, VIA NELSON, SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND
TUTORS: IAN ATHFIELD, RICHARD LEPLASTRIER, PETER STUTCHBURY, LINDSAY JOHNSTON

+ The Architecture Foundation Australia is a not-for-profit association established with trustees - Glenn Murcutt, Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury and Lindsay Johnston. It has been established to offer educational and cultural activities to further the discipline of architecture and related fields.

+ The central activity is the annual two week Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class held in Australia each July and targeted at overseas professionals, postgraduates and senior students - which is proceeding to its eighth year. The New Zealand Master Class has grown from this concept, stimulated by recommendations by previous New Zealand participants on the International Master Class.

+ The New Zealand Master Classes, held in September since 2005, have been described as ‘wonderful’, and the fifth six day residential New Zealand Master for practising architects, academics and graduates will be held again at the Athfield designed Awaroa Lodge in the magnificent Abel Tasman National Park in the NE of the south island of New Zealand.

+The program will consist of a design studio led by Ian Athfield, Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury. It will be supplemented by lectures by each of the tutors and a visit to Athfield's amazing Awaroa House nearby.

+ Ian Athfield is one of New Zealand's most highly respected architects, was recipient of the 2004 NZIA Gold Medal and is immediate past-president of the NZIA. Richard Leplastrier is a seminal figure in Australian architecture and an outstanding teacher and he was recipient of the RAIA Gold Medal in 1999 and, in 2004, the prestigious Finnish 'Spirit of Nature, Wood Architecture Award' also awarded to Renzo Piano, Kengo Kuma and Peter Zumthor. Peter Stutchbury has been recipient of numerous architecture awards including, in 2003, both the RAIA Sir Zelman Cowan Award for Public Buildings, with Richard Leplastrier, and the Robin Boyd Award for Residential Buildings and, in 2005 the Robin Boyd Award and a National Award for Commercial Buildings. In 2008 he was winner of the international ‘Living Steel’ competition for extreme climate housing in Russia and held the Catedra (Chair) Luis Barragan in Mexico. Master Class Convener is Lindsay Johnston, former Dean of Architecture, Building and Design at the University of Newcastle Australia, whose environmentally responsive buildings have been awarded and published internationally.

+ The NZIA/NZRAB have determined that satisfactory completion of the six-day residential program will attract 200 CPD points.

+ Please complete an on-line application form available under ‘Register’ on this web site. Only 32 places available. Confirmation of acceptance of offers will require payment of a booking deposit

+ Queries to info@ozetecture.org