area 107 – glenn murcutt

Glenn Murcutt in a portrait by Max Dupain Area has for many years dedicated one of its monographic issues to an architect, seeking to describe how he works, and thus…

“Rough elegance”: Glenn Murcutt’s latest architecture. Glenn Murcutt represents a way to conceive and practice architecture that is quite unusual in this day and age. In fact, publicity, communication, the…

The house designed for Marie Short on an estate not far from Kempsey undoubtedly represents a turning point for the architecture of Murcutt. It is, in fact, the first house…

“Mother Earth births everything for us. Father Sky carries the water and oxygen for us to breathe. Grandfather Sun warms the planet, warms our body, gives us light so we…

The two houses have been built in Mount Irvine, the most agricultural region in the Blue Mountains, as a weekend home for two families from Sydney. They may be considered…

The evolution and experimentation of the theme of the wooden house which Murcutt conducted in the late Seventies and early Eighties has reached, with this dwelling, the extreme synthesis between…

Kenneth Frampton has not hesitated to define the site where the house is built, about two hundred and fifty kilometres from Sydney, as heroic. Its beauty is, in particular, due…

The house built for the Magneys, owners of the house in Jamberoo (Bingie Point) appears as a variation in the rhythm of the sequence of row houses in the Victorian…

No other house by Glenn Murcutt is so profoundly the result of a close and inspiring dialogue with the customer as this. During the six years it took to develop…

The Education Centre is one of the few projects on a certain scale built by the Australian architect. Murcutt has cooperated with two colleagues, Wendy Lewin and Reg Lark, in…

Lerida Estate Winery was founded in 1997 on a lot by the motorway from Sydney to Canberra, where it coasts Lake George, a dry lake which is periodically flooded, sometimes…

It is often impossible to describe an architecture by Murcutt without describing the site, which not only represents the generating principle as attentive reading of the environmental component, but then…

Mosman is the residential suburb of North Sydney where the house where Murcutt and Lewin live and work is located. Due to the type of project, involving an existing structure,…

In the most remote part of the TAFE (Technical And Further Education) Campus at Moss Vale, Murcutt and Lewin have designed a pavilion for the University of Wollongong, completing it…

The Blue Mountains have historically represented one of the areas of Southern Australia which have been hardest to explore due to the dense vegetation and the geomorphologic conformation. However, when…

applefield, Bilpin, New South Wales – photo by Simone Corda This interview is an edited version of our conversations during seven meetings which have been held over a year, since…

…I grew up in Sydney about seven kilometers north of the city. The landscape was typical of the coastal Sydney sandstone basin with its abundance of eucalyptus and other remarkable…

Cities are defined by the natural features that help form them. In Australia, such axiom is a given for Sydney, so clearly shaped by its harbour and sandstone cliffs. In…