M urcutt’s love for organic architecture that fits into the landscape and connects with nature comes from this work exposure. Moving to Sydney in 1941, he attended Manly Boys’ High School and then went on to study architecture at the Sydney Technical College.įollowing his graduation in 1961, he travelled for a couple of years and subsequently joined the reputed firm of Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley in 1964. and a singular design philosophy strongly rooted in, and respectful of, the diverse Australian landscape.īorn in London, England in 1936 to Australian parents, Glenn Murcutt spent his early years in the Morobe Province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. A world-famous architect who has only built in Australia. The only Australian to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and an AIA Gold Medal winner as well as being Australia’s greatest living architect. “Glenn Murcutt is a modernist, a naturalist, an environmentalist, a humanist, an economist and ecologist encompassing all of these distinguished qualities in his practice as a dedicated architect who works alone from concept to realisation of his projects in his native Australia.” The Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury Citation.Īustralia's most famous architect. Exhibitions, Associations & Information.Ceilings, Internal Wall Materials & Partitioning.