Glenn Murcutt is the only Australian architect to receive the international Pritzker Prize, the Aalto Medal and the Green Pin award for architecture and ecology. Glenn Murcutt will lead a tour through a house he designed in Jamberoo. The tour of the award wining Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale will be led by architect Terence Yong, a AAA trained volunteer guide. We will also be visiting a house in Kangaloon by architect Peter Stronach, principal of Allen Jack + Cottier, an award winning architecture firm.

This South Coast Self-Drive includes commentary, lunch and entry to Riversdale.

The AAA’s 2009 Annual General Meeting is scheduled to happen on Tuesday 30 June 2009 (6.00 pm) at The Seidler Apartment, Level 5, 2A Glen Street, Milsons Point.

Here are the relevant documents:

Notice of Annual General Meeting

AAA Committee Nomination Form

AAA 4th AGM Minutes

The meeting will be followed by drinks, all members are welcome.

Our first AAA Black Talk speaker receives highest honour winning the 2009 Pritzer Prize.

Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.

In announcing the winner of the 2009 Priztker Prize, Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, quoted from the jury citation, "Peter Zumthor is a master architect admired by his colleagues around the world for work that is focused, uncompromising and exceptionally determined." And he added, "All of Peter Zumthor's buildings have a strong, timeless presence.  He has a rare talent of combining clear and rigorous thought with a truly poetic dimension, resulting in works that never cease to inspire."

Pritzker Prize jury chairman, The Lord Palumbo elaborated with more of the citation: "Zumthor has a keen ability to create places that are much more than a single building. His architecture expresses respect for the primacy of the site, the legacy of a local culture and the invaluable lessons of architectural history." He continued, "In Zumthor's skillful hands , like those of the consummate craftsman, materials from cedar shingles to sandblasted glass are used in a way that celebrates their own unique qualities, all in the service of an architecture of permanence."

Read more about the Pritzker Architecture Prize here.

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