Lerida Estate Winery
Lerida Estate Winery was founded in 1997 on a lot by the motorway from Sydney to Canberra, where it coasts Lake George, a dry lake which is periodically flooded, sometimes for years. Murcutt was,...
Walsh House
It is often impossible to describe an architecture by Murcutt without describing the site, which not only represents the generating principle as attentive reading of the environmental component, but then becomes the very means...
Murcutt-Lewin House and Studio
Mosman is the residential suburb of North Sydney where the house where Murcutt and Lewin live and work is located. Due to the type of project, involving an existing structure, it may serve as...
Educational Facility, Wollongong University
In the most remote part of the TAFE (Technical And Further Education) Campus at Moss Vale, Murcutt and Lewin have designed a pavilion for the University of Wollongong, completing it in 2007, after two...
House at the Blue Mountains
The Blue Mountains have historically represented one of the areas of Southern Australia which have been hardest to explore due to the dense vegetation and the geomorphologic conformation. However, when the first Europeans began...
lezioni australiane – intervista a Glenn Murcutt
applefield, Bilpin, New South Wales - photo by Simone Corda
This interview is an edited version of our conversations during seven meetings which have been held over a year, since August 2008. In the different...
Glenn Murcutt Pritzker Prize 2002
...I grew up in Sydney about seven kilometers north of the city. The landscape was typical of the coastal Sydney sandstone basin with its abundance of eucalyptus and other remarkable native Australian plants. In...
costruire con semplicità per opporsi semplicemente al costruire
Adalberto Libera, Casa Malaparte, Capri, 1938-1943
There is no doubt that architecture, and contemporary architectural planning in particular, is an intellectual activity which, in addition to the obvious cultural education, calls for advanced technical and...
diciassette declinazioni del termine semplicità
In architecture, but also in creative fields more in general, from design to photography, from cinema to literature, the term simplicity generally has a positive connotation, with a value and charge of mysticism that...
Sverre Fehn tra tipo uso e costruzione
Sverre Fehn between type of use and construction
On 6 March the new National Museum of Architecture opened in Oslo: the work of Norwegian master Sverre Fehn, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1997, the...
il decalogo per una vita più semplice – John Maeda
In a world where everything is multitasking, doing something with simplicity becomes increasingly rare and a privilege of a few. John Maeda explains how to live simply in his best selling book: ”The laws...
stiftung insel hombroich museum
Poetic is Álvaro Siza’s idea of nature and so is his project placed into the landscape. Arriving at the Raketenstation of Insel Hombroich, first there is only the roof of the building visible. A...