For more than 20 years, the Murcutt Foundation has placed a real focus on teaching and learning in the landscape - running both a summer school for students of architecture about to launch in to the academic year, and in the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass aimed at architects who are looking to recharge after years of practice.

So what’s different about this way of teaching and learning? How does it seek to complement what’s taught in schools of architecture?

Come with us as we listen in to two of the masters, Rick Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury - both recipients of the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal for architecture - and from students who were part of the summer school held in 2024....

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When you’re Rick Joy, small moments of surprise reveal themselves.

A lot of these moments are captured in images that Rick speaks to in this podcast, so you’ll have to imagine them, or head to StudioRickJoy.com to see some of the projects he speaks to like his Desert Nomad House, Amangiri Resort, Princeton Transit Hall or the Woodstock Vermont Farm.

Rick shares the landscapes, experiences and artists that influence his work; of canyons that are abstracted and reflected in his architecture, inspiration from sunlight striking the tip of mountain ranges in Tucson or - looking back at his work from a distance, where his buildings visually recede into the landscapes they’re designed for.

Many of the early projects were designed and built by Rick who was on the formwork for the massive rammed earth walls he’s known for. You hear this in Rick’s eye for detail and his description on how to finish materials and his love of precise detailing.

Rick also looks back at the start of his career, designing to modest budgets and all of it built with Rick’s own hands.

And stay till the end, for Rick on drums…

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In a recent address, Bangladesh architect Marina Tabassum revealed that the first confrontation of her professional life was witnessing the commodifying of architecture drifting toward instant gratification and industrial-scale materials devised to standardise the entire globe.

This may be why her work is so grounded in the practical needs of the people of her country who are on the frontier of climate change and displacement of peoples it brings.

Marina starts by describing the natural forces that are continuing to shape Bangladesh thanks to more than 700 rivers that form the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta. We hear that water shapes and reshapes the terrain - giving rise to new land while absorbing other land back into the vast waterscape of this delta…and all under a colonial system of property rights that assumes land is a fixed asset!

Marina Tabassum joined Rick Joy, Marusa Zorec, Niall McLaughlin, Peter Stutchbury and four others in a driving epic over three weeks across the rich, remote Australian desert landscape; before speaking at an event called Stories of Earth: Echoes in Architecture, hosted by the Murcutt Foundation in September 2024.

Marina starts us out on that journey; showing us a swag, a pair of boots, a water bottle…and the milky way that she saw for the first time.

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