He marked his name as an internationally renowned architect, theatre designer, author and academic, based in Melbourne. He described himself as a Brechtian architect. The architect has also brought his vision to the set and costume designs for many prestigious productions of ballet, drama and opera including The Grand Macabre for Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper House Berlin in 2005 and the upcoming opera Falstaff directed by Tama Matheson, to be staged at Oper Graz, Austria in January 2013. And his insertions of Expressionism, all his playful erudition, invoking of the shades of architectural history kicked at the lifestyle house. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. RMIT Building 8, Melbourne Vic 1993.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). Peter Corrigan, architect, theatre designer, Architect Peter Corrigan passed away on December 1 after a long illness.Credit:Simon Schluter. The would-be killer fled into the night in terror. Dr Peter Corrigan is an RMIT Architecture Professor and RAIA Gold Medal winning architect. Peter Corrigan, who has died aged 75, was one of Australia's most distinguished and colourful architects. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. His architectural practice Edmond and Corrigan with Maggie Edmond is widely published and awarded with notable projects that include the Athan House and RMIT Building 8, which won the RAIA Walter Burley Griffin National Award for Urban Design, 1995. In the latter years of his life, with the inroads of his illness, Peter Corrigan would still come to the pub, though he would scarcely drink himself, laden with drinks for his comrades. His Athan House (1996-1998) in Monbulk looks to the architectural historian Philip Goad like a great, gorgeous Albert Tucker galah of a house, and yet the frenetic frippery of its elements is something the work as a whole rises above. “Combined with his rich imagination and critical engagement in architecture, ideas and education, Peter’s work offers an expression of renewal and hope for the future.”. Set design for Le Grande Macabre for the Komische Oper, Berlin, 2003, by Peter Corrigan. His rhetoric was vehement but the buildings he built – and all the tireless work he did with his wife and architectural partner Maggie Edmond – are, as Ian McDougall says, the truth that underlay the rhetoric. He taught at RMIT continuously from 1975 and left an indelible print on the School of Architecture as well as the City Campus with his unmistakably (and, indeed, unmissable) postmodern Building 8. "If you've lit up the occasional candle, you're allowed the occasional curse," was true with bells on of Peter Corrigan. His architectural practice Edmond and Corrigan with Maggie Edmond is widely published and awarded with notable projects that include the Athan House and RMIT Building 8, which won the RAIA Walter Burley Griffin National Award for Urban Design, 1995. Peter said he had no idea what access of adrenaline or grace of God allowed him to do it, but with a mighty voice in the still Manhattan air he boomed out at the top of his voice, "What the f--- do you think you're doing!" This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Edmond & Corrigan's Building 8, RMIT, on Swanston Street, Melbourne. Explore the diverse content within the collection, About the RMIT University Library Special Collection, Using the RMIT University Library Special Collection, RMIT University Library Special Collection showcase, https://rmit.libguides.com/library-special-collection, RMIT University Library Special Collection. Peter Corrigan: Cities of Hope. Due to the fragility of these drawings, the reproductions in these catalogues were taken from 35mm microfilm. Having studied at RMIT, Peter Corrigan was a Professor of Architecture at RMIT University and taught architectural design and history for over 40 years. The importance of Peter Corrigan to RMIT cannot be overstated. Peter Corrigan: Cities of Hope traces the creative focus of this remarkable Australian architect, bringing to life many of his designs over four decades. The Lover performed to a sell-out Melbourne season in 2007. The exhibition will also feature a selection from Corrigan’s vast personal library of over 3000 books; among them key architectural works such as J Leeke’s 1669 Vignola, early editions of Palladio, and major collections on Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. Having studied at RMIT, Peter Corrigan was a Professor of Architecture at RMIT University and taught architectural design and history for over 40 years. He also enjoyed double-dipping as a theatre designer. The Niagara Gallery in Richmond by architects Peter Corrigan and Maggie Edmond.Credit:John Gollings. America provided the backdrop to some of the great Corrigan anecdotes. The sense of colour, the sense of curvature, the pinks and greens and yellows were faux-naif but reflected a deep erudition and an apprehension of sacred and the mundane by the Catholic larrikin who had drunk deep of America and its love of the imaginary museum. A similar self-confidence may underlie his having to repeat his final year despite his manifest brilliance. Reported to be Corrigan’s personal favourite book from his collection, it is easy to see why. And in a large scale work like Building 8 at RMIT in 1993 (where he was professor of architecture) Corrigan blends different elements to situate the building very consciously in Swanston St and to absorb the pre-existent buildings. University introduced him to and he designed a college production of Othello directed by his comrade-in-arms Patrick McCaughey without reading anything but the first act, so that everybody boggled at the prospect of tragic jealousy being acted out in Corrigan's breezily Italianate set. He was a man of tremendous kindness and great moral courage. Le Corbusier archive / Le Corbusier ; Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris : 1982. Corrigan, Peter, 1941- Edmond, Maggie. He taught a generation of Australian architects to honour their own roots. This exquisitely illustrated volume features over 50 plates of images, some chromolithographed, 1 aquatint, and the rest engraved or engraved and etched. They encouraged his passion for Australian Rules football as a moral imperative and drove him to the kind of pugnacity and courage which allowed him to stare down academic architecture at the University of Melbourne. He adored working in the theatre too – especially with Barry Kosky for whom he did a carnivalesque Nabucco. He slaved for the likes of Paul Rudolf and Philip Johnson and said that he was forever being laid off by the great architecture firms of the Eastern seaboard. The drawings are organised by project or building name and run chronologically. “This is a rare opportunity to experience first hand the relationship between Corrigan’s engagement with theatre and design,” Ms Gerrans said. It is fascinating to turn the pages of this volume, however, and imagine what might have been. He used to say that it wasn't just the number of drinks he'd had, it was the sight of the rabbi's knife that made him faint at an Ivy League circumcision. Their stunning design centred on a massive seven-storey pyramid situated on Swanston Street that would have transformed the city’s landscape. The originals are so fragile (and many were made on delicate tracing paper) that re-photographing them was not allowed. He worked in New Haven and Manhattan. Anyone who ever heard Corrigan hold forth in his days of glory about the splendour of the city of Melbourne or of the perfidy of the Sydney Rum Corps could understand how the psycho quailed. A similar self-confidence may underlie his having to repeat his final year despite his manifest brilliance. “Corrigan’s stark white set evokes the intense heat of Saigon and the sparse luminosity of Duras’ prose.”, The exhibition Peter Corrigan: Cities of Hope (RMIT Gallery 12 April – 8 June 2013) traces the creative focus of architect, set…. Edmond and Corrigan, Building 8, RMIT University Swanston St, Melbourne, Vic., 1994. He was as influenced the pauvre ars movement as he was by Hugh Stretton's case for the Australian suburb. Corrigan, Peter, 1941- -- Exhibitions. Photo by Mark Ashkanasy, RMIT Gallery 2013. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The phrase “cities of hope” was coined by Corrigan to express his feeling that “architecture should enhance that sense of a defining difference which is central to what makes a culture rich and its citizens proud.”. He marked his name as an internationally renowned architect, theatre designer, author and academic, based in Melbourne. Architect, set and costume designer Peter Corrigan is well known for designing RMIT’s Building 8 – a campus landmark and city icon.
Monuments modernes de la Perse / Pascal Coste. This concept proved too dramatic, and the eventual winning design was a much more traditional and modest proposal that was never actually built anyway. He instilled a passion for the shadings of ideas, the substance of intellectual debate and the primacy of design. It features a dizzying array of influences and design elements. Corrigan filled his fire stations with a sense of drama and he made a church like St Francis Xavier's in Frankston look like a multi-coloured portable classroom somehow equipped with a courtyard of maples. And once walking the dangerous streets of pre-Giuliani New York with a woman, he turned around on a sudden uncanny impulse to discover a man with an uplifted knife immediately behind them. It is a follow-up to the ‘Influence: Edmond and Corrigan + Peter Corrigan’ event held in 2017 that saw current and former RMIT Architecture staff and students, as well as the wider community of practice, explore the influence of Edmond and Corrigan on their work. Gallery -- Exhibitions. RMIT University, Copyright © RMIT University (1993), Edmond, Maggie and Corrigan, Peter. The exhibition will appeal to audiences interested not just in architecture, but also those engaged in theatre, costume design, visual art and history. When Peter Corrigan designed housing commission homes like the two infill houses in Kay Street, Carlton, he was paying homage to the Italian migrant's lust for luxury. Edmond, Maggie -- Exhibitions. Edmond and Corrigan (Firm) -- Exhibitions. This 32-volume set features all Le Corbusier’s architectural drawings in the Foundation Le Corbusier including the Foundation’s catalogue entries for each drawing. But on graduating in 1966 he immediately won a scholarship to Yale where he studied under Paul Venturi, a great influence. Installation image. Gallery -- Exhibitions. “A building for young people,” was Peter Corrigan’s description of his most provocative and public building, RMIT’s Building 8 on Swanston Street. Victorian architect, set and costume designer Dr Peter Russell Corrigan passed away on 1 December. He was a legendary talker and a tremendous character.
Peter Corrigan in his office. Currently, around 400 special collection items are available to view at RMIT's Special Collections room as well as 1300 journals and 3,500 other monographs held as part of this collection. When he did the community centre in Canberra's Belconnen (1995-98) he built into it an implicit nostalgia for the old picture theatre world the Belconnen Mall had forgotten. 72 pages : colour illustrations and photographs ; 21 cm. In 6 libraries. The Niagara Gallery in Richmond by architects Peter Corrigan and Maggie Edmond. But if Peter Corrigan could be a caution in his cups, his wrath was the other side of an extraordinary generosity and kindness and encouragement of the young and talented and needy. Photo: John Gollings. Kate Kendall received rave reviews in this gripping one-woman rendition of the screenplay adapted by Colin Duckworth. These works capture the colour, spirit and expression of Corrigan’s inquiries, complementing his commitment to architecture, cultural history and ideas.”.