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About Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt is Australia’s most famous architect and has been selected as recipient of the prestigious 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The citation for this ‘Nobel Prize’ for architecture states:

Murcutt Pritzker Statement
Glenn Murcutt is a stark contrast to most of the highly visible architects of the day – his works are not large scale, the materials he works with, such as corrugated iron, are quite ordinary, certainly not luxurious; and he works alone. He acknowledges that his modernist inspiration has its roots in the work of Mies van der Rohe, but the Nordic tradition of Aalto, the Australian wool shed, and many other architects and designers such as Chareau, have been important to him as well. Add in the fact that all his designs are tempered by the land and climate of his native Australia, and you have the uniqueness that the jury has chosen to celebrate. While his primary focus is on houses, one of his public buildings completed in 1999, the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education centre, has achieved acclaim as well, critics calling it ‘a masterwork’. - Thomas J. Pritzker

Glenn Murcutt is Australia's most internationally famous architect. He has received twenty-five Australian Architecture awards including the RAIA Gold Medal and was awarded the honour Order of Australia (AO). International awards include the Alvar Aalto Medal, Finland; Richard Neutra Award, USA; the 'Green Pin' International Award for Architecture and Ecology, Denmark; and the Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award.

He is currently Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale and has been Thomas Jefferson Professor at University of Virginia, Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture Aarhus, Denmark, and Visiting Professor at Montana State University.

He has extensive international lecturing experience and has recently lectured at UCLA, Washington University St. Louis, Portland Museum, Maine, Federation of Icelandic Architects, Reykjavic, Danish Academy of Architects and Columbia University. He was a jury member for the competition for the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre New Caledonia, Chair of the jury for the international student competition for a shelter for Alvar Aalto's boat, Jyvaskyla, Finland, chair of the jury for a competition for the 'Peace Park', Gallipoli, Turkey, member of the jury for the spirit of Nature of Wood Architecture International Award, Finland and jury member for the competition for Forum Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra, Australia.

Publications on Glenn Murcutt include –
'Leaves of Iron : Glenn Murcutt, pioneer of an Australian architectural form’, by Philip Drew, Collins and Angus and Robertson, Sydney (1991). First published by Law Book Company, Sydney (1985)
‘Three Houses – architecture in detail’’ by Elizabeth Farrelly, Phaidon, London (1993)
'Touch This Earth Lightly – Glenn Murcutt in his own words' by Philip Drew, Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney (1999),
‘Glenn Murcutt – buildings and projects 1962 – 2003’ by Françoise Fromonot, Thames and Hudson, London (2003). First published in an earlier edition by Thames and Hudson (1995)
‘Glenn Murcutt - a singular architectural practice’ by Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper, Images Publishing, Melbourne (2006). First published by Images Publishing (2002).
‘The Architecture of Glenn Murcutt’  by Heneghan, Seyama, Lassen and Gusheh, TOTO, Tokyo (2008)
‘Glenn Murcutt – thinking drawing, working drawing’ ’  Heneghan, Seyama, Lassen and Gusheh, TOTO, Tokyo (2008)

Film documentaries of Glenn Murcutt include 'Touch the Earth Lightly' by Peter Hyatt (of BHP Steel Profile) and TV Channel 9 documentaries produced by Catherine Hunter )