Victorian Visionary and Educator Wins Australian Architecture’s Top Award
A man credited with “changing the landscape of suburban housing in Australia”, reinvigorating architectural university studies in Victoria, and mentoring decades of leading architects has won the nation’s top annual architecture award — the 2011 Gold Medal for Architecture.
Presenting the honour at the second Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards (AAAA) ceremony in Perth in March this year was Australian Institute of Architects National President Karl Fender. Karl said he was proud to announce that the outstanding architect, Graeme Gunn, had won the 2011 Gold Medal.
The Melbourne-based architect is best known as “being a fighter for better housing for all Australians” and for working consistently to enhance our quality of life by “improving our housing and urban environments” throughout his 50-year career, to date.
The jury citation noted: “Graeme Gunn has made an outstanding contribution to architecture in a career spanning more than five decades, one distinguished by three distinct forms of engagement. In each of these he has had a transformative impact. Beginning with his early work in housing, particularly for Merchant Builders; continuing as an innovative educator heading the department and subsequently as foundation dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Building at RMIT; and in his present role as principal architect for VicUrban, Graeme Gunn is an enduring and inspirational advocate for architecture’s contributory role in improving our housing and urban environments.
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