Masterclass: Pittwater Weekend
Tutors: Peter Stutchbury, Richard Leplastrier, Lindsay Johnston, Fergus Scott & David Boyle
Date: 12-14 October 2012
Location: Pittwater YHA, Morning Bay via Church Point, North Sydney
Cost: $693 (+ 10% GST) includes share accommodation, meals, coach transfers
Applications: You must submit an online application and be accepted to attend. Complete the application here.
Contact: info@ozetecture.org
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Overview

This is a short weekend Masterclass for younger architects, at affordable cost, with seminal and award winning architects. A chance to reinvigorate your career and collaborate with a ‘master’ such as Richard Leplastrier, with some other really exciting award winning architects – in the amazingly beautiful setting of Morning Bay, where both Richard and Peter Stutchbury live and work.

The program will include visits to the 2012 Wilkinson Award winning Cliff Face House at Palm Beach designed by Peter Stutchbury and Fergus Scott in association, to Richard Lelastrier’s amazing home at Lovett Bay and to Peter Stutchbury’s office in Newport.

This weekend program is similar in format to previous Masterclasses and the Architecture Summer School, but presented as a short version to keep the cost down and fit in with work commitments. The program will include walking the landscape – to observe – accompanied by freehand sketching followed by a brief studio based design ‘charette‘, undertaken in small groups, for a project (yet to be determined), on a site within walking distance of the venue. The design program will be supported by talks from the ‘masters’ and on-going tutorial support during the weekend.

The program includes accommodation (4-6 share bunk rooms at the YHA), meals, possibly excluding lunches on site visits. The tutors will share the weekend with the group, will eat at the Youth Hostel. The program will culminate in presentations and crits on the last morning.

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Richard Leplastrier

Richard Leplastrier is a seminal figure in Australian architecture and architectural education. He eschews publicity and his built works are secret treasures to be discovered only by those privileged enough to be introduced to them. His sensitivity to issues of culture and place and his accumulated wisdom in the design and making of architecture is gently revealed though his tutorial sessions in the design studio. He was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1999, he was recipient of the 2009 Dreyer Foundation 'Prize of Honour' in Denmark and he was recipient of the 2004 'Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award' in Finland, other recipients include Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor, Kengo Kuma, José Cruz Ovalle and Bijoy Jain. In 2009 Richard was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, in 2011 he received the Australian National Honour 'Order of Australia' for distinguished service to architecture and as 'an educator and mentor', and he received an Honorary International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2015. Until recently Richard Leplastrier was a Professor at the University of Newcastle Australia and is one of the principle ‘masters’ on the Architecture Foundation Australia master classes.

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Peter Stutchbury

Peter Stutchbury is recognised for his innovative approach to sustainability and design. Time spent living in the desert country of western NSW during his formative years, allowed him to develop a deep appreciation of the Australian landscape and its sustainability. As principal of Peter Stutchbury Architecture he has practiced independently since 1981 producing a wide variety of work, and his practice has won an unprecedented number of Australian Institute of Architects Awards for public, commercial and residential buildings. Projects have been published and acclaimed internationally. He was winner of the International 'Living Steel' competition for extreme climate housing in Cherepovets, Russia, he held the Catedra (Chair) Luis Barragán in Mexico and has been a tutor on McKay-Lyons Ghost Studio in Canada. The book 'Under the Edge' on the work of Peter Stutchbury, originally published by the Architecture Foundation Australia, has now been republished by Thames and Hudson. Peter Stutchbury was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2015, and received an Honorary International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2016. Until recently he was a Professor at the University of Newcastle Australia, and is one of the principle ‘masters’ on the Architecture Foundation Australia master classes.

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Lindsay Johnston

Lindsay Johnston grew up in Ireland and studied architecture in Scotland. After 20 years in research and practice in Ireland, he emigrated to Australia and entered academic life. He has been Head of School and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the University of Newcastle. He has continued architectural practice and has been awarded for his houses and for research on and practice of environmentally sensitive strategies. He has been Chair of the Australian Institute of Architects National Education Committee and National Environment Committee. He was awarded the 2002 Australian Institute of Architects National Education Prize for his contribution to architectural education. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle, the University of Sydney, and as interim Head of School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. He was founder of, and is now convener of, the Architecture Foundation Australia and principle organiser of the Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class.

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About Us

The Architecture Foundation Australia (AFA) is a not-for-profit organisation, the chair of which is Australia’s most internationally regarded architect, Glenn Murcutt.We have been running Masterclasses for professional architects and architecture students since 2001. Nearly 1000 people, young and old, have participated in our programs from over 60 nations around the world.

Our centrepiece program is the annual two-week Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class held at the Arthur and Yvonne Byd Centre ‘Riversdale’. Other professional Masterclasses have been held in New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland. An annual one-week Summer School for senior architecture students has been held each year in February at the Pittwater YHA since 2005.

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