Stutchbury Gold Medal

The Australian Institute of Architects has awarded Peter Stutchbury with its highest honour, the Gold Medal for Architecture. Stutchbury’s contribution to the advancement of architecture through practice, teaching and participation in professional organisations was celebrated at the awards ceremony, held on March 19 at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Stutchbury has joined an extensive list of winners of the the Gold Medal, which was first awarded to Leslie Wilkinson in 1960, and has since been awarded to over 50 architects including Robin Boyd (1969), Jørn Utzon (1973), Peter McIntyre (1990), Glenn Murcutt (1992) and Brit Andresen (2002).

Established in 1981, Peter Stutchbury Architecture has received 47 Institute awards in total, has won or been placed in approximately 20 national and international design competitions, and has been published in around 200 books and publications. Stutchbury is best known for his residential architecture which is meticulously site and culturally specific. He has received two AIA Robin Boyd Awards, the highest honour in Australian residential architecture, and the 2014 'House of the Year Award' for a house in the Blue Mountains.

"In 34 years of practice, Stutchbury has mastered the art of creating architecture that speaks of the place it inhabits – buildings that are environmentally sustainable, culturally specific and locally embedded,” said the jury.

Peter Stutchbury is also a Professor in Architecture at the University of Newcastle, a founding director of the Architecture Foundation Australia and has taught at the Foundation’s Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class since its inception in 2001.