For more than 20 years, the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass has welcomed architects from around the world to learn from the best.
In this series, we continue the search for what mastery really means.
We meet some of the most awarded architects and hear what shaped them, as they reveal what decades have distilled.
Welcome to the Masters Project - where we ask: What does it really take to master architecture?
In this episode, we meet Peter Stutchbury.
Stutchbury describes the landscape of the Australian bush, and travel in Papua New Guinea where he lived and worked with the people of the highlands and witnessed the building and rituals of the traditional long house as two important experiences that shaped his early life, and that influence his work today. Reading the land and its weather patterns were as evident to a young Peter Stutchbury when mustering sheep, or alone on a surfboard observing the swell, wave patterns and wind.
Awarded the Gold Medal for Architecture in 2015, this acclaimed architect only stumbled on architecture after initially enrolling in Commerce at UNSW. In this episode, Peter Stutchbury shares the value of finding mentorship from teacher and friend, Richard Leplastrier AO, and guidance from Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison that have together influenced an approach to the land, to architecture, and to a quiet reconciliation with culture indigenous to place.
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