Peter Muller (architect)
Peter Muller  |
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| Born |
3 July 1927 Adelaide, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater |
University of Adelaide University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings | Audette House Muller House Richardson House Hoyts Cinema Centre Amandari Hotel |
Peter Muller AO, is an Adelaide born architect who established private practice in Sydney in 1952 with works in NSW, Sydney, Victoria, Melbourne, Adelaide South Australia, Bali and Lombok. Muller's organic conception of architecture gives him an important place in post-war Australian architecture.
Peter Neil Muller was born in Adelaide on 3 July 1927. He was educated at St Peter's College, an independent boys' school, from 1942 to 1944. He studied at the University of Adelaide graduating with the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering together with the South Australian School of Mines and Industries graduating with a Fellowship in Architecture in 1948. He was the only student to ever completed both courses in 4 years, under the scheduled time of 5–7 years. He was founding President of the University of Adelaide's Architectural Students' Association during 1948 and was the first winner of the Board of Architectural Education and Royal Australian Institute of Architect's traveling scholarship in 1947. He was the first Australian architect to win a Fulbright Traveling Scholarship and was awarded a Graduate Tuition Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA in 1950/1951 where he obtained a Master of Architecture degree, the first for an Australian architect. He was also awarded Honorary Membership in the Tau Sigma Delta Honour Society of Architecture and Allied Arts, USA. At the age of 21 he became a Registered Architect and an Associate of the Royal Australian and British Institutes of Architects. He began private practice in Sydney in 1952 at the age of 24.
In 1953, Muller married Rosemary Winn Patrick. They had three children named Peter, Suzy and James. In 1964 they divorced. Tragically, in September 1976, his 16-year-old son James and Rosemary were killed in a mid air collision over Zagreb on a British Airways flight from London. He married Carole Margaret Mason in 1964 whom he also divorced in 1991. He remarried, but three years after the death of his third wife Helen Hayes in 2001, he returned to Sydney and reunited with Carole. He currently resides in Sydney.
Muller holds a significant place in Australian architecture as he takes an alternative approach of design to the style at the time, being that of the modern movement. He has travelled and lived in many places around the world including France, London, Bali, South Australia and Sydney. He had several influences including Adrian Snodgrass (1952), Albert Read (1954) and lastly, Frank Lloyd Wright (1952) whom only “influenced him on the Audette house at the beginning of his practice” (Peter Neil Muller). In Sydney 1953, Muller worked in his own architectural practice called ‘The Office of Peter Muller’. He was strongly determined to avoid synthetic finishes and instead used natural materials as he felt strongly about the Australian landscape. This is reflected in many of his Sydney contemporaries.
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