Glenn Murcutt: A singular architectural practice
Images Publishing, $99.95hb, 256 pp
Obfuscating Stucco
Glen Murcutt has emerged in recent years as a very Australian hero, an apparently sincere and unassuming man, a loner in his practice, and in tune with the environment - a sort of Crocodile Dundee of architecture. He has also achieved an improbable international stature. He is almost better known in Finland than at home, and has now been recognised by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, an international award which is presumably important, even though most of us had never heard of it before. Here, for once, is an Australian architect who deserves to be studied and documented.
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