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	MASTER CLASS - Latest Information [updated 20/10/05] + The Architecture Foundation Australia, a not-for-profit cultural association, has announced plans for the sixth Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class to be held in Australia 9-23 July 2006. As a large number of applications have already been received for the 2006 event, those interested should complete and submit an ‘Application Form’ under ‘Register’ on this web site. The cost will be AUS$7,350 (Oct 2005 – US5,500, UK3,000, EUR4,400). Following receipt of applications, first round offers will be made no later than Christmas 2005, based on credentials, with preference to early applicants. + Commenced in 2001, the annual Master Class has been described by many participants as ”a life changing experience” and has created a wonderful international network of friends which includes architects (older and younger), academics, postgraduates and senior students from Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Wales, many states of the US and, of course, Australia. + The Master Class is a two-week residential program and is limited to 30 places. The first week will be held at ‘Riversdale’, the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre on the Shoalhaven River south of Sydney, (described as Glenn’s ‘Master Work’). The second week in 2006 will be held at the University of Sydney School of Architecture. Glenn personally leads the Master Class, stays at ‘Riversdale’ with the participants and tutors all groups. The program will be similar to 2005, details of which are available on this web site. + Glenn Murcutt is Australia’s best known architect. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2002 (the ‘Nobel’ Prize of Architecture), is a Visiting Professor at Yale and his other awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the Alvar Aalto Medal (Finland), 2001 Thomas Jefferson Medal (USA), the ‘Green Pin’ International Award for Architecture and Ecology (Denmark) and the 2001 Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award. + Other tutors on the Master Class include seminal Australian architect and educator Richard Leplastrier, internationally published and award winning architect Peter Stutchbury and former Dean of Architecture at the University of Newcastle, Lindsay Johnston. Richard Leplastrier was 2004 recipient of the ‘Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award’ in Finland and an invited tutor on the 2003 Utzon Summer School in Denmark – he worked with Jørn Utzon at the time of the Sydney Opera House. Peter Stutchbury has been recipient of numerous Rpyal Australian Institute of Architecture awards, including the two top awards in 2003 - for Public Buildings and Private Residences – the first architect to receive both awards in the one year – and has also lectured and been published internationally. + Subject to confirmation, the program will include excursions with Glenn Murcutt to see houses such as the Fletcher-Page House in Kangaroo Valley, the ‘Fredericks’ House at Jamberoo or the the Simpson-Lee House at Mt.Wilson in the Blue Mountains. There will also be visits to see some very special houses by Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury. Details are yet to be finalised and are dependent on client consent to get access to these properties. The program may also included an excursion to Newcastle to visit buildings on the University of Newcastle campus, including early buildings by Glenn Murcutt and award winning buildings by Peter Stutchbury and Richard Leplastrier. + The intensive two-week design studio program involves a design project undertaken in groups and culminating, at the end of week two, with a design presentation by participants and a critique by Glenn Murcutt and the other tutors. The studio program, associated lectures and supporting events equate to 150 hours high-level study at Masters level. The spirit of the event is that participation is the focus and there is no formal assessment. A certificate of satisfactory completion will be issued to all participants completing the program. Universities internationally have, over the years since its inception, accepted this event as gaining credit towards their programs. + There are only 30 places available and applications will be assessed on credentials and merit, with preference to early applicants. An ‘Application Form’ is now available for submission on-line under ‘Register’ on this web site. "The future lies with our younger architects and with our understanding of the conservation and the ecology of our planet .... I think that the landscape is really the appropriate common thing to all of us .... I am talking about the conservation of materials, the conservation of land, the keeping of old growth forests, the understanding of how we might be able to find a sustainable building." Glenn Murcutt, May 1990 Freemann, P. and Vulker, J. (Eds.) The Australian Dwelling, Canberra, RAIA, 1991, p.47 "First it must be architecture, second it must work with the issues of energy consumption and responsibility to the planet .... I've been working for 35 years on harnessing the planet's gifts for homo sapiens - the wind, sun, shade, perfumes of plants, water, prospect, geology, flora, fauna, water table, drainage patterns, topography/contour, oh! it goes on ...."?Glenn Murcutt, October 2000 unpublished note on 'Green Architecture' + COST. The total cost for the 2006 Master Class including tuition fees, twin share accommodation, internal transport within Australia and most meals (except 5 free evenings) will be AUS$7,350 (Oct 2005 – US$5,500, UK3,000, EUR4,400). + SCHOLARSHIPS. In order to support participation from poorer nations, two 50% scholarships will be offered to applicants from “developing countries” with a low GDP per capita. To apply for these scholarships, please submit an official application form and include in the ‘Statement’ on the application form that you wish to be considered for a scholarship. + APPLICATIONS. An 'Application Form' is available on this web site under ‘Register’, which may be submitted on-line or copied and e-mailed to info@ozetecture.org. ??All the relevant information is on this web site – there are no brochures or printed materials available. For clarification - please e-mail info@ozetecture.org All the relevant information is on this web site – there are no brochures or printed materials available. For clarification - please e-mail info@ozetecture.org