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About Peter Stutchbury

Peter Stutchbury  is well known in Australia for his innovative approach to sustainability and design within the practice of Architecture. A principal of the firm Peter Stutchbury Architecture he has practiced independently since 1981 producing a wide variety of work. Projects have been published and acclaimed internationally. Peter has taught both nationally and internationally most recently as visiting professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico where he held the Catedra Luis Barragan. He is currently a Conjoint Professor at The University of Newcastle, Australia and one of the distinguished ‘masters’ with the Architecture Foundation Australia.

 

Since 1995 his firm has won an unprecedented 38 Australian Institute of Architects Awards. In 2003 Peter became the first Architect to win both of the Nationalation Architecture Awards, repeating this feat in 2005. In 1999 he won the overall National Metal Industries award of Excellence and in 2000 and 2008 The Australian Timber Award. In 2006 Peter was runner-up in the “Innovative Architectures – Design and Sustainability” award in Italy and in 2008 the firm won the International ‘Living Steel’ Competition for extreme climate housing in Russia. Peter Stutchbury Architecture have exhibited work across Australia, Germany, Luxembourg, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Namibia, USA, Japan and Slovenia and at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy in both 2006 and 2008.

"Stutch's appreciation of this place, and the need for sustainability is keen. He owes this largely to the sprirituality af his monther Gwenda, whose family property near Cobar, west of the divide, became the springboard for his understanding. His appreciation of form and assembly is also similarly sharp due to his father Ernie, whose ability in management and manufacturing of large scale steel industrial installations is legendary amongst those of us who know him."
Richard Leplastrier, in Philip Drew, Peter Stutchbury-Architectural Monograph, Balmain, Pesaro, 2000, p.7.

"In describing architecture, Peter Stutchbury talks of the degrees of freedom, of parameters that confine, restrict or liberate the designer. The undisguised complexity of Stutchbury's work defies the myth of 'ease' in the landscape. The architecture has wildly different concerns to the urbanity, fuguration and formally driven processes that preoccupy the mainstream architectural world .... it would be easy to dismiss this work as luxuriously detached, but one cannot."
Philip Goad, in Philip Drew, Peter Stutchbury-Architectural Monograph, Balmain, Pesaro, 2000, p.7.