Published on the 11 Apr 2016
12th April 2016 | By Fran Strachan
Australia’s only winner of the "Nobel Prize" for architecture, UNSW Professor of Practice Glenn Murcutt, has been appointed the next chairman of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury.
Professor Glenn Murcutt with a UNSW Built Environment architecture student. Photo: Hamish Tawa
Australia’s only winner of the "Nobel Prize" for architecture, UNSW Professor of Practice Glenn Murcutt, has been appointed the next chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury.
Current chairman Lord Peter Palumbo announced that Murcutt will succeed him at the ceremony to honour the 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate Alejandro Aravena, held at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Palumbo described Murcutt as a “brilliant architect, with a beautiful mind”.
In 2002 Murcutt became the first, and only, Australian to be awarded the Pritzker, widely regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture. In 2010 he joined other high-profile international architects as a Pritzker Prize jury member.
Murcutt holds UNSW’s Seidler Chair in the Practice of Architecture, a position funded by a gift from architect, businesswoman and arts patron Penelope Seidler AM.