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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 order to meet the deadline of the competition, which he then won. The new cen …

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 for years. Murcutt was, the owner explains, chosen because of his ability to gua …

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 becomes the very means of understanding and appr …

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, it may serve as an example of their special way to conceive and practice arc …

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 in 2007, after two years of work. A long volume is positioned perpendi …

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 the first Europeans began to build holiday homes i …

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 August 2008. In the different locations where they have been held a harmo …

…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 native Australian plants. In this environment, I learned about the pr …

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 Melbourne, by contrast, surface and topography would seem to betray the genie of t …

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