Architect Gregory Burgess receives Order of Australia
Greg Burgess. Photo: Greg Elms.
ABP alumnus Gregory Burgess was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to architecture in the area of environmentally sensitive building design and to the community, announced in the Queen Birthday 2011 Honours List this week.
Gregory studied architecture at the University of Melbourne in the late 1960s, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Architecture from the University of Melbourne in 2005, acknowledging his significant artistic, social, environmental and intellectual contribution to the field of architecture. He was also made a Life Fellowship of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 2005.
Gregory has been the principal designer for Gregory Burgess Architects since 1972. The collaborative Melbourne-based practice emphasizes architecture as a social, healing and ecological art. Gregory’s international reputation has been established through his extensive portfolio of work including residential, community, cultural, educational, health, religious, commercial exhibition design and urban design projects. He is particularly well known for his inclusive and sensitive approach to design practice, for expanding architectural boundaries and nurturing a built future that is sustainable and caring.
As ABP’s Professor Kim Dovey commented:
“Greg shows an uncommon capacity to bring the community with him in breaking open the potentials of architecture and urbanism, to capture the public imagination for a better future—aesthetically, socially and environmentally.”
(Published in Architecture Australia, Nov/Dec 2004, on the occasion of the AS Hook Address)
The significant achievements of our alumni are always a source of great pride to the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. We congratulate Gregory Burgess on receiving an Order of Australia.
For more information on Gregory’s architectural vision and practice visit: http://www.gbarch.com.au
A recent project by Gregory Burgess Architects - De Young Centre for Performing Arts, Carey Baptist Grammar School. Photo: John Gollings.