There's a lot to like about Glenn Murcutt.
His working philosophy of sympathetic architecture. Buildings that quietly nestle, happy to take a backseat to a commanding landscape.
His life-long quest to understand indigenous culture. The seed was planted in New Guinea and propagated well into his life in Australia.
His refusal to work overseas. Rejecting huge commissions because "I wouldn't have understood the whole essence...". I guess it's akin to
dressmaking without measurements.
His magnetic father. An environmental tyrant who made Glenn and his brother eat the 60 fish they had caught in brotherly competition. It was to be a lesson in waste and depleting natural supplies.
He is one of our most revered architects yet he has no secretary, no PA, no staff, no mobile.He has an exhibition at the moment at the Museum of Sydney. He is giving a talk this Friday night.
Like it.
