Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO is a Britishborn Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 AIA Gold Medal.
Murcutt was born in London to Australian parents. He grew up in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, where he developed an appreciation for simple, vernacular architecture. After moving to Sydney, he was educated at Manly Boys High School and studied architecture at the Sydney Technical College, from which he graduated in 1961, and where he became friends with other soontobeprominent students, including director Jim Sharman, theatre designer Brian Thomson and film producer Matt Carroll. Murcutts early work experience was with various architects, such as Neville Gruzman, Ken Woolley, Sydney Ancher and Bryce Mortlock, which exposed him to their style of organic architecture focussing on relationships to nature. By 1969, Murcutt established his own practice in the Sydney suburb of Mosman.
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