RIBA Lecture Leplastrier and Stutchbury 24 May

Richard Leplastrier house at Lovett Bay north of Sydney




















Peter Stutchbury House at Depot Beach on the New South Wales coast

Lecture at the RIBA, Portland Place, London, 6.30pm, Tuesday 24 May 2011; and at the Architectural Association of Ireland, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin, 7.00pm, Thursday 26 May.

'Architecture on the Edge of Divergence'

Australian Architects Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury will reflect upon the wisdom that can be learned from our lands, and from our elders, and how they each have explored, through their own architecture, the divergent paths that lie ahead.

Richard's architecture is exquisitely crafted, very understated, ephemeral, yet radical in its conceptualisation. He challenges the norms of habitation and asks the question "how little can we build?" Peter has learned from Richard, and Glenn Murcutt, and has produced an impressive body of work, also finely crafted, which pushes the edge of contemporary practice in a language distinctly of the 'Antipodes'.

European / Irish Architecture Master Class, Glencree, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, 29 May - 4 June 2011

Both Richard and Peter will be principal tutors, with eminent Finnish academic and architect Juhani Pallasmaa, on the Irish Architecture Master Class in County Wicklow 29 May - 4 June, and on the annual Glenn Murcutt International Master Class in Australia. See - www.ozetecture.org/IMC/ and www.ozetecture.org or email info@ozetecture.org