ABSTRACT
The buildings that Glenn Murcutt has made in Australia in the last 30 years are one of the most convincing demonstrations of the way in which the demands of climate and environment can be translated into architecture of the utmost eloquence. In a sequence of small buildings, the majority single-family houses, he has shown that the universal tenets of the Modern Movement can be adapted to specific conditions of site and climate to become truly regionalist. His design sketches, such as those for the Landscape Interpretation Centre at Kakadu in the Northern Territory of Australia, reveal the precise relationship he establishes between solar geometry and the built form as a fundamental influence upon the formation of his architecture.
