2023 Student Summer School, Pittwater YHA
If you are interested, please submit an application on the form for this Summer School
Master Class: ‘Total Immersion’ Architecture Student Summer School
Tutors: Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury, Craig Burton, Karen Lambert
Date: 11 -17 February 2024
Location: Pittwater YHA, Morning Bay, North of Sydney.
Cost: AUS$1,990 (including 10% GST) includes tuition, accommodation, all meals, ferry transfers,, coach excursion to houses, visit to Richard Leplastrier house Lovett Bay, visit to Peter Stutchbury offices Newport
Applications: Please submit an online application, total 32 places available, preference will be given to ‘senior’ architecture students with more than three years architectural education. Following receipt of applications, offers will be made, based on credentials, with preference to early applicants.
Payment: Please send NO money until an offer is made. Then you can confirm your booking and pay via an Eventbrite event portal, we will send you the link. Payment may be by credit card or through PayPal. All fees paid will be refunded in full if the event has to be cancelled due to covid complications.
Contact: info@ozetecture.org
ABOUT THIS COURSE
It has been called the ‘Total Immersion’ Summer School because, for a week, you live, eat, sleep, walk, talk, architecture in the superb landscape of the Kur-ing-gai National Park overlooking beautiful Pittwater north of Sydney, where both ‘masters’ Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury live and work.
Held since 2005, the annual event has attracted hundreds of architecture students and recent graduates from all over Australia and New Zealand, PNG, South Africa and as far afield as Bangladesh, China, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Argentina, India and Slovenia.
Get away from the computer and the lecture room and get out and experience the landscape, learn to see again with the eye and the hand-drawing and be inspired by these architects and great teachers, visit some of their extraordinary houses and the offices of Peter Stutchbury in Newport.
What we hear is that this week is an essential antidote to architecture school or ‘work’, and can re-invigorate your passion for architecture.
2024 will be the eighteenth residential architecture studio program for architecture students and recent graduates
“The value the students derive from attending your program is unquestioned and they’re almost incoherent with enthusiasm when they come back. You get our support because the job of education is just that – to provide opportunities for people to get enthusiastic about architecture.”
TUTORS
Richard Leplastrier
Peter Stutchbury
Craig Burton
Karen Lambert
PEOPLE
PLACES
PROJECTS
PROGRAM DETAILS
TOTAL IMMERSION
Architecture Student Summer School SUN 11 – SAT 17 February 2024
Sunday 11 February. Assemble at coach pick-up at Sydney Airport Domestic Terminal T2 at 10.00 am (exact location to be confirmed). Coach to Church Point Wharf. Ferry to Pittwater YHA including scenic tour of Pittwater. Settling in and introductions.
Monday 12 February. Introductory talks by Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury. Walking the landscape, with them and the brilliant Craig Burton, architect and landscape architect. Introduction to projects. Set up studio groups. Evening talk after supper – Richard Leplastrier?
Tuesday 13 February. Group working - site observation and brief consideration. Tutorial discussions with Richard, and Peter. Evening talk after supper – Peter Stutchbury?
Wednesday 14 February. Crits on site and brief analysis. Talks on undertaking design conceptualisation. Studio activity continues. Perhaps a walk to Richard Leplastrier’s home at Lovett Bay. Evening talk after supper – guest?
Thursday 15 February. Design, design –studio activity and tutorial review – heading for a design proposal. Supper on the run and working late to prepare a design submission.
Friday 16 February. Design presentations. Critique and generous comment by tutors and additional guest(s). BBQ evening – relax and reflect.
Saturday 17 February. Pack-up. Ferry to Church Point. Coach pick-up and visit to selected houses by Peter Stutchbury and visit to Stutchbury offices at Newport Beach. Farewells and coach return to Sydney Airport Domestic Terminal T2 arrive latest 7.00pm.
ABOUT US
The Architecture Foundation Australia is a not-for-profit organisation, the chair of which is Australia’s most internationally regarded architect, Glenn Murcutt. The foundation has been running Master Classes for professional architects and architecture students since 2001. Over 2200 people, young and old, have participated in our programs from over 80 nations around the world.
The centrepiece program is the annual two-week Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class that has been held at the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Centre ‘Riversdale’ and more recently at Tocal College in the Hunter Valley. Other professional Master Classes have been held in New Zealand, USA, South America, South Africa, India, Bangladesh and Ireland. The annual one-week Summer School for senior architecture students and recent graduates has been held each year in February at the Pittwater YHA since 2005.