The Australian Institute of Architects, in Melbourne, has awarded to Peter Stutchbury the 2015 Gold Medal. The projects by this New South Wales architect, include the seaside Bay House near Sydney and the recently completed Invisible House in the Blue Mountains. Granting 14 awards in 9 categories, the recipients’ work spans a wide range of subject matter and addresses various aspects of architecture’s inherent influences both locally and globally.

The award acknowledges the work of Peter Stutchbury Architecture, as well as his teaching and his role as a founding director of the Architecture Foundation Australia. His international work speaks on specific cultural context and sustainable design principles. The Gold Medal is awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects in recognition of a significant contribution to Australian architecture. Previous recipients include Jørn Utzon, Glenn Murcutt and Peter Wilson.

The 2015 winners are.-

Gold Medal. Peter Stutchbury, Peter Stutchbury Architecture (NSW).

Emerging Architect Prize.- Nic Brunsdon, Post- and Spacemarket (WA).
National President’s Prize.- Ian Close and Sue Harris, Architecture Media (Vic).
Student Prize for Advancement of Architecture.- Barnaby Hartford-Davis, RMIT (Vic).
BlueScope Glenn Murcutt Student Prize.- Matthew Hyland, University of Tasmania (Qld)
Jin Chen Lee, University of NSW (NSW).
Leadership in Sustainability Prize.- Professor Emeritus Allan Rodger LFRAIA (Vic)
William J Mitchell International Committee Prize.- Louise Cox AO LFRAIA (NSW)
Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize.- Professor Paul Memmott, University of Queensland (Qld)

Dulux Study Tour Prize.-

Bonnie Herring, Breathe Architecture (Vic)
Casey Bryant, Andrew Burns Architect (NSW)
John Ellway, James Russell Architect (Qld)
Monique Woodward, WOWOWA (Vic)
Nic Brunsdon, Post- and Spacemarket (WA)

Read a jury citation from architect and critic Kenneth Frampton

As Stutchbury himself has made clear, there is no single point of departure for his architecture. One can only say that it derives its wide-ranging character from the enigmatic experience of the Australian continent in all its vastness.

Like Glenn Murcutt and Richard Leplastrier, the two Australian master architects with whom he is most closely associated and with whom he habitually teaches a studio course for advanced students every summer, Stutchbury builds the spirit of the outback into his work wherein the exotic flora and fauna of the continent, not to mention its geology, topography and climate, find a responsive echo in his architecture.

This architect, as agent provocateur, remains a man of the people, combining in one volatile persona both a leader and a collaborator. This is a figure who recognises and acknowledges on a daily basis that distinguished works of architecture are never created by a single individual after the myth of genius. On the contrary, he is perennially involved in fleeting collaborations between multiple talents and protagonists, from the essential structural and environmental engineers to small-scale, quasi-industrial manufacturers working away on the edge of things, along with those dedicated young architects refining a given piece at the last minute, in the early hours of the morning.

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Peter Stutchbury (born 1954, Sydney) is an Australian architect. He graduated as an architect in 1978 at the University of Newcastle. One of his early buildings was a church in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, completed in 1983. He established a joint practice with Phoebe Pape in 1991.

Since 1995 the firm has won 45 Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, including 13 National Awards. In 2003 PSA became the first practice to win both the nation’s major architectural awards, an honor it received again in 2005. In 1999 it won the overall National Metal Industries Award of Excellence and in 2000 and 2008 The Australian Timber Award. In 2008 the firm also won the International Living Steel Award in Russia.

Peter Stutchbury received the University of Newcastle Convocation Medal in 2004 for his contributions to the profession of architecture. He has been a member of over 10 international design juries. Starting in 1999 he has been a professor at Newcastle University. In 2004 he was visiting Professor of the University of Arizona, and in 2007 at University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2008 he held the Luis Barragan Chair at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, and in 2010 he was a guest teacher at Ghost Studio in Canada. Between 2010 and 2011 he taught throughout South America (coordinating the 2010 Columbian and 2011 Chilean Master Class), in Ireland, and Taiwan. For his teaching in Mexico he was awarded the Diploma Catedra Luis Barragan.

Stutchbury is a founding director of the Architecture Foundation Australia and a founding member of the Australian Architecture Association and a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.

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