Glenn Murcutt: Unbuilt Works draws on Murcutt's personal archive to reveal ten previously unknown projects, tracing the design philosophy of Australia's most celebrated architect through the work that never reached construction.
About This Book
Every architect's body of work contains a shadow archive — the unrealised projects that illuminate intention as clearly as any built structure. This volume brings Murcutt's hidden work into the light. Compiled in close collaboration with Murcutt himself, and presented by architect Nick Sissons, his former student and assistant, the book documents the gap between Murcutt's celebrated built works through never-before-seen designs. Extraordinary true-to-life renders sit alongside original hand-drawn plans, sections, elevations, and sketches. For those serious about Australian architecture, landscape-responsive design, and the evolution of a singular architectural philosophy, this is essential primary material.
Key Features
- Never-before-published renders, hand-drawn plans, sections, elevations, and sketches from Murcutt's personal archive
- Compiled by architect Nick Sissons, Murcutt's former student and assistant, with commentary from Murcutt himself
- Ten previously unknown projects documented in full
What You'll Discover
- How Murcutt's unbuilt projects illuminate the progression of his design philosophy across his career, revealing shifts in thinking that finished buildings alone cannot show
- The relationship between Murcutt's hand-drawn process and his deeply considered response to Australian landscape, climate, topography, and flora and fauna
- Murcutt's own articulation of architecture as place-making — a practice defined by prospect, refuge, and the linking of built space to landscape
- The role of unrealised work in the broader context of one of the world's most awarded architectural practices, including the Pritzker Prize, the Alvar Aalto Medal, and the AIA Gold Medal
About the Author
Nick Sissons studied architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, and worked with Glenn Murcutt as an assistant on the Page-Fletcher House in Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales. He later joined Foster + Partners in London, became a UK registered architect and a member of the RIBA, and has since returned to Sydney. The book was compiled in close collaboration with Murcutt, who discusses each of the ten projects in detail throughout the volume.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 272
- Dimensions: 237 × 296 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781760764197
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Perfect For: Architects and students of Australian architecture, anyone engaged with landscape-responsive design, and collectors of primary monograph material on Pritzker Prize-winning practitioners.