Murcutt Wins the Pritzker
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Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has won the 2002 Pritzker Prize. The NYTimes has a story.
Mr. Murcutt is that rare species in top-flight architecture: a sole practitioner. He works without a computer at home in Sydney in a 13-square-foot office that he shares with his wife, Wendy Lewin, also an architect. He is passionate in his distaste for the computer, now the compulsory tool of virtually every architect. "Stupid things, they are," he said. "They are not truly logical: click on this, click on that." Further, he says, the computer destroys the eye-hand connection that he considers vital to good architecture. He works on a drafting board with pen and ink. "Computers make buildings more like cardboard than buildings," he said.
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Posted to The Good • 2002.04.27 (Sat) • 11:56
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Posted by Shinobu FUKUTAKE 2002.04.18, 17:07
Thanks a lot!! ;-)
Posted by Egrego 2005.12.11, 23:50
I haven’t login to nyctimes, but glad for Glenn Murcutt, I listen about him. Where can I find photos of his projects?
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