area 107 – glenn murcutt
presentazione/introduction Thank you Glenn Murcutt testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial un’architettura rude e raffinata: opere recenti di Glenn Murcutt testo Massimo Faiferri letture critiche/critical lectures …
Thank you 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 how he acts and thinks, with particular attention. It may therefore be interesting for …
un’architettura rude e raffinata: opere recenti di Glenn Murcutt
“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 message and self-promotion are today indispens …
Marie Short House
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 designed outside the Sydney area, with close ties to the open landscape. The pr …
Glenn Murcutt – Architecture for Place
“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 can see, raises the food that the Mother births and raises most of our relations, …
Nicholas and Carruthers Houses
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 as two variations on the theme which has already been tackled in the Marie Short …
Fredericks-White House
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 the refined accuracy of the definition of the details and …
Magney House
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 to the scale of the open landscape where the eye may range across a very va …
Magney House
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 district of Paddington in Sydney. In fact, the project consisted of the transformation o …
Simpson-Lee House
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 project, through numerous communications in the form of telephone calls, letters and me …