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Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Murcutt graduated in architecture from the University of New South Wales in 1961, worked at Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley, and established his own practice in 1970.
Background & practice
Glenn Murcutt graduated in architecture from the University of New South Wales in 1961, worked at Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley, and established his own practice in 1970. His predominantly residential work combines environmental sensitivity with local craftsmanship and modernist thinking. The Pritzker biography also documents a teaching career across architecture schools, connecting a small practice's built work with a much wider educational influence.
How to read the work
Design with environmental conditions and local construction knowledge, bringing modernist spatial clarity into a close relationship with nature and the familiar character of residential life.
Independent architect and teacher documented in the prize biography.
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