INTERNATIONALLY AC-
CLAIMED Australian architect -
Glenn Murcutt will be the third
speaker in the Alcan Lecture
Series. Murcutt is known for his
exquisitely beautiful houses, his
mastery of detailing and his pcetic
use of structure and ordinary ma-
terials. Murcutt’s buildings are
precise, hard and emphatically
man-made objects.

His poetry stems in part from
his inventive response to light and
climate — Murcutt’s buildings not
only take advantage of the unique
qualities of Australian light with
special roofs and ceilings but also
of the favorable climate with in-
door/outdoor spaces.

Murcutt says of his work: ‘‘My
buildings are pieces of machinery
set in the bush that respond to it

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Australian architect speaks on spatial contexts

and express it in the most direct
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Murcutz uses a strict Modernist
language but with references to
the spatial and architectural histo-
ry of Australia. His architecture is
4 marriage between a Miesian ra-
tionalism and a romantic
Australian primitivism -~ that is,
a cross between the sophisticated
glass house and the primitive hut.

Murcutt’s work has been held
out as an example of Realist Ar-
chitecture the esthetic and
philosophical approach to ar-
chitecture proposed by American
critic and architect Michael
Benedikt who was the first
speaker in the series.

Murcutt’s projects include: New
house at Bingie Bingie with its gull
wing roof; Farm House at Mt. Ir-
vine (1981); Museum and Tourist

Canadian

architect lecturing
at Robson Square

BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS of
Halifax, Nova Scotia,is one of the
finest young architects in Canada
today. He is known for his sensi-
tivity to the regionalist architec-
ture of Atlantic Canada and his
innovative designs for affordable
infill housing. But more than be-
ing just a regionalist, MacKay-
Lyons possesses an inventive real-
ist creativity belonging
definitively within a modernist
tradition. Indeed it could be
argued that the architecture of
MacKay-Lyons is one of the best
Canadian examples of Critical
Regionalism.

Using a straightforward palate
of ordinary materials, MacKay-
Lyons creates poetically simple
but extraordinary buildings. There
is often a nautical quality to the
detailing and materials as in his
renovation of a 200-year-old
- house in Upper Kingsburg, which
has a lighthouse-like volume ex-
tending through the house.

MacKay-Lyons responds to the
particularity of place and context
yet very much like Australian ar-
chitect Glenn Murcott (whe is also
speaking in Vancouver soon), his
buildings are identifiable as
man-made objects in the land-
scape,

MacKay-Lyons’ projects in-
clude: the Nielsen/White House
(1988), which won a Canadian
Architecture Award of Excellence;

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the Creighton Street House (1990),
which is conceived as a prototype
for affordable high-density infill
housing; House in Upper
Kingsburg (1986), his own
weekend house; and South Street
duplex (1980).

In a few short years MacKay-
Lyons has won numerous awards,
including the Governor General
Medal for Architecture, RAIC
Medal, Nova Scotia Association
of Architects Award for Ex-
celJence and first prize in the
Halifax Non-profit Housing
Society Design Competition.

Brian MacKay-Lyons was born
in Nova Scotia in 1954. After
receiving his Bachelor of Architec-
ture from the Technical University
of Nova Scotia, he went on to do
a Master of Architecture in Urban
Design at UCLA. He worked for
the Urban Innovations group in
Los Angeles and Moore Ruble
Yudell in Santa Monica before
teturning to Nova Scotia where he
formed Emoal and MacKay-
Lyons. In 1985 he started his
present firm of Brian MacKay-
Lyons Architecture, Urban
Design.

MacKay-Lyons’ lecture, ‘*Will-
ing Paradises,"' takes place at the
Robson Square Media Centre on
Nov. 27 at 6 p.m. Admission is
free. For more information, con-
tact Jeannie Bates at 732-5390.

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NSW; House at Glenorie (1982/
83); and Farmhouse at Jamberoo
(1983). These works have been
published in Architectural Review,
Center, Casa Vogue and a book
devoted to Murcutt’s architecture,
Leaves of Iron by Philip Drew
was published in 1983.

Glenn Murcutt was born in
1936 in England of Australian

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parents. He received his diploma
in architecture in 1961 from the
University of New South Wales.
Murcutt formed his solo practice
in 1969 and he has received
numerous awards for his residen-
tial designs. His work has been
exhibited at the Paris Biennial and
most recently (this year) at the
Venice Bienalie.

Murcutt has ceen a visiting and

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adjunct professor at the University
of New South Wales, University
of Melbourne, University of Pen-
nsylvania.

Murcutt’s lecture entitled ‘‘Ar-
chitecture as a response to place’’
will be held at the Robson Square
Media Centre on Nov. 25 at 6
p.m. Admission is free. For more
information, contact Jeannie
Bates at 732-5390.

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