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The 2012 Annual General Meeting lunch of the Architecture Foundation Australia. In the picture at back left seated is Aboriginal Elder Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison with his partner Marelle Burnum Burnum. Immediately behind Max is Otto Murcutt, grandson of Glenn Murcutt, being held by his mother Rachel Neeson, wife of Glenn’s son Nick who tragically died last year from cancer, age 42. Beside Rachel is Lindsay Johnston, Founder and Convener of the Foundation, and then four Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medallists – Glenn Murcutt, Professor Brit Andresen, seated holding a glass Richard Leplastrier and standing beside him Lawrence Nield in the green shirt. Seated to the left of Richard is Andrea Nield, founder of Emergency Architects Australia, and to the left of her is Peter Stutchbury and partner Leanne Borg. In front and to the right of Lawrence, in the blue shirt, is the Foundation lawyer Stephen Rayfield with his daughter Chloe, who was a participant on the very first Architecture Student Summer School in 2005. Back right beside Steve, is John McInerney, former Director of Planning City of Sydney and City of Melbourne and former President of the Planning Institute of Australia. Smiling in front of John is ... Read More »

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A splendid new publication on the life and works of Glenn Murcutt has been released by El Croquis as a double Issue 163/164 December 2012. It includes an extensive interview conversation with Murcutt by Sean Godsell and an essay, ‘Feathers of Metal’, by his good friend Finnish architect and writer Juhani Pallasmaa. There are, in all, 415 large format pages with thorough coverage of projects from his seminal Marie Short House 1974-75, many of his subsequent houses, the Bowali Visitor Centre done with Troppo Architects 1993-99 , the Boyd Education Centre 1997-99 done with Wendy Lewin and Reg Lark, his most recent house in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and two current projects, a Mosque  outside Melbourne currently under construction, and a proposed Opal Museum for outback Lightning Ridge. The publication includes many Glenn conceptual sketches, superb photography by Anthony Browell and facsimile copies of many of Glenn’s working drawings. An exhibition of Murcutt’s work is currently showing at CIVA in Brussels until 20 January 2013 and opens at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki on 6 March until 26 May 2013. The annual Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class takes place with Glenn Murcutt, Professor Brit Andresen, ... Read More »

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Applications are now being received for the 13th Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class to be held in Australia 22 September – 6 October 2013. This will be the thirteenth annual two-week residential studio based program, that has now been attended by architects, postgraduates and senior student from over 65 countries around the world. The Master Class is held at Glenn’s “Master Work”, the Boyd Education Centre ‘Riversdale’ on the banks of the beautiful Shoalhaven River south of Sydney. Glenn Murcutt, Pritzker Prize laureate and Gold Medallist of the Australian Institute of Architects, leads the program and stays with the participants at ‘Riversdale’. Other ‘masters’ on the program include Professor Brit Andresen of Andresen and O’Gorman, the first woman Gold Medallist of the Australian Institute of Architects; Richard Leplastrier, recipient of the ‘Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award’ (Finland), also a Gold Medallist of the AIA; Peter Stutchbury, recipient of numerous awards, who has recently lectured at Ghost Studio in Nova Scotia and Rural Studio. 

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Glenn Murcutt will be ‘in person’ in Brussels on 19 November 2012 and will be ‘in conversation’ with eminent author Françoise Fromonot, who wrote one of the most definitive books on Murcutt, published by Thames and Hudson. The major exhibition ‘Glenn Murcutt : Architecture for Place’ is showing in Brussels through CIVA , the International Centre for Urbanism, Architecture and Landscape, until 20 January 2013. The exhibition is located at 19 Bis Place Flagey, 1050 Brussels and the ‘in conversation’ will be in the auditorium K at the ULB.

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