Peter Stutchbury to Discuss 'Natural Forces' in Sustainability Lecture

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Invisible House, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Michael Nicholson)

Peter Stutchbury will present a lecture titled “Natural Forces” at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus. He is principal at Peter Stutchbury Architecture in Sydney, Australia.

Time spent living in the desert country of western New South Wales during Stutchbury’s formative years allowed him to develop an appreciation of the logic behind Australian landscape and the sensitivities that enable the land its sustainability. He aspires to elevating the status and respect that the wider environment deserves into the day-to-day culture of architectural disciplines and Australian lifestyle.

A Conjoint Professor in Architecture at the University of Newcastle since 1999, Stutchbury has taught design to students since 1981 at several Australian universities, including Sydney University, the University of Canberra and the University of Newcastle. He has also given more than 150 lectures worldwide.

Stutchbury is a founding director of the Architecture Foundation Australia and a founding member of the Australian Architecture Association. In 2004, Stutchbury was awarded the University of Newcastle Convocation Medal for his contributions to the profession of architecture.

Since 1995, Peter Stutchbury Architecture has won 44 Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, including 13 National Awards. The firm’s projects have been published since 1988 in more than 180 books and publications. The sustainable aspects of the firm’s work appeared in the 2008 documentary Building for the Future, and a national documentary on Stutchbury’s philosophy and work, Living in the Landscape, was produced in 2006.

The public is invited to attend this lecture, which is presented by the Fay Jones School of Architecture. This is the Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects Sustainability Lecture.

Admission is free, with limited seating. For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.