Architect

Glenn Murcutt

1936 — · Australian

Pritzker Prize laureate (2002), Murcutt practices alone from a single Sydney studio, designing one project at a time. His long, narrow houses in the Australian bush — clad in corrugated metal and timber, lifted off the ground, oriented to sun and wind — translate Aboriginal land wisdom into a modern architecture of climate.

““Touch the earth lightly.” Buildings as instruments tuned to sun, wind, rain — every detail earning its right to exist.”