Leplastrier Stutchbury RIBA May 2011

The 'Birabahn' Aboriginal and Torres Straits Island Cultural Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia. One of the few buildings designed together by Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury, with Su Harper, completed in 2002, which was recipient of the 2003 Australian Institute of Architects Sir Zelaman Cowan Award for Public Buildings.

Leplastrier and Stutchbury will present a lecture 'Architecture at the Edge of Divergence' at the RIBA, Portland Place, London on Tuesday 24 May at 6.30pm. They 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. Leplastrier is a Gold Medallist of the Australian Institute and recipient of the Finnish Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award also won by Renzo Piano, Kengo Kuma, Peter Zumthor and José Cruz Ovalle. Stutchbury has been a winner of numerous Australian Institute Awards and published internationally in GA Houses, Abitare, etc.. He won the 2008 International Living Steel Competition for extreme housing in Cherepovets in Russia, he has held the Catedra (Chair) Luis Barragán in Mexico, was a guest tutor at the 2010 Ghost Studio in Nova Scotia, and has recently completed a house in Japan for renowned fashion designer Issey Miyake. Leplastrier and Stutchbury will also lead a Master Class at Glencree, Ireland, with eminent Finnish architect and academic Juhani Pallasmaa 29 May - 4 June and will be tutors on the eleventh annual Glenn Murcutt Master Class in Australia 10 - 24 July. See - www.ozetecture.org