About Peter Stutchbury

In 2003 Peter Stutchbury was the first architect ever to win both the top National Architecture Awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects for residential and non-residential projects with the Robin Boyd Award for houses for the Bay House at Watson's Bay, Sydney, and the Sir Zelman Cowan Award for Public Buildings for 'Birabahn', the Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the University of Newcastle, designed with Richard Leplastrier and Sue Harper.

Peter Stutchbury is emerging as one of the leaders of a new generation of Australian architects. His buildings have received numerous Australian architecture awards and have been published internationally. His work is the subject of a monograph 'Peter Stutchbury' published by Pesaro, Balmain, Sydney (2000). Significant buildings by Peter include several stunning houses around Sydney Harbour and northern beaches and buildings at the University of Newcastle campus. These include the Design Building and the Nursing Building (with EJE Architecture), the new Aboriginal Cultural centre (with Richard Leplastrier and Sue Harper), and the spectacular Life Sciences Building (with Suters Architects). The latter was recipient of the 2001 RAIA Sulman Award for the best public building in NSW.

"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.

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