Glenn murcutt famous works
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Glenn Murcutt
Touch the earth lightly
Glenn Murcutt’s architectural style is built on his deep understanding of the natural environment: ‘My architecture has attempted to convey something of the discrete character of elements of the Australian landscape, to offer my interpretation in built form.'
His houses respond to the conditions in which they exist, as he said in 1996:
I’m very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions … Layering and changeability: this is the key … Architects must confront the perennial issues of light, heat, and humidity control and yet take responsibility for the method and the materials by which, and out of which, a building is made.
According to Architecture Week magazine (17 April 2002), ‘Murcutt selects materials that have consumed as little energy as possible in their manufacture, and will consume as little as possible in the operation of the house.'
Murcutt’s early travels had a distinct influence on his style. Over time, he has been able to combine the modernist features
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Biography of Glenn Murcutt, Australian Architect
Glenn Murcutt (born July 25, 1936) is arguably Australia's most famous architect, although he was born in England. He has influenced generations of working architects and has won every major architecture award of the profession, including the 2002 Pritzker. Yet he remains obscure to many of his Australian countrymen, even as he is revered by architects worldwide. Murcutt is said to work alone, yet he opens his farm to professionals and students of architecture every year, giving master classes and promoting his vision: Architects thinking locally acting globally.
Murcutt was born in London, England, but grew up in the Morobe district of Papua New Guinea and in Sydney, Australia, where he learned to value simple, primitive architecture. From his father, Murcutt learned the philosophies of Henry David Thoreau, who believed that we should live simply and in harmony with nature's laws. Murcutt's father, a self-sufficient man of many talents, also introduced him to the streamlined modernist architecture of Ludwig Mies van der R
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Glenn Murcutt
Australian architect
Glenn Marcus MurcuttAO (born 25 July 1936) is an Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the 2021 Praemium Imperiale. Glenn Murcutt works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds only within Australia and is known to be very selective with his projects. Being the only Australian winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he is often referred to as Australia's most famous architect.[1]
Life
Murcutt was born on 25 July 1936[2] in London to Australian parents. He spent the first five years of his life in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, where he first encountered vernacular architecture. After moving to Sydney with his parents in 1941, he was educated at Manly Boys' High School and studied architecture at the Sydney Technical College, from which he graduated in 1961.[3] Murcutt's early work experience was with various architects, such as Neville Gruzman, Ken Woolley, Sydney Anc
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