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Glenn Murcutt

1936 - Today

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Glenn Marcus Murcutt (born 25 July 1936) is an Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the 2021 Praemium Imperiale. Glenn Murcutt works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds only within Australia and is known to be very selective with his projects. Being the only Australian winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he is often referred to as Australia's most famous architect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Glenn Murcutt is the 252nd most popular architect (up from 272nd in 2019), the 2,161st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,069th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Glenn Murcutt ranks 252 out of 518Before him are Gordon Bunshaft, Lambert Lombard, Archibald Leitch, Giacomo Quarenghi, Giovanni Giocondo, and Kevin A. Lynch. After him are Hermann Muthesius, François de Cuvilliés, José Benito de Churriguera, Elissa Aalto, Gio Ponti, and Luciano Laurana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Glenn Murcutt ranks 199Before him are Mala Sinha, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Ivan Dias, Joe Don Baker, and Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez. After him are José Policarpo, John P. Ryan, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Paul Shenar, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Glenn Murcutt ranks 2,161 out of 8,785Before him are Kevin Phillips (1973), Tim Staffell (1948), Saint Alban (300), William of Malmesbury (1080), John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859), and Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn (1945). After him are Horatio Gates (1727), John Loudon McAdam (1756), Ron Harris (1944), David Coulthard (1971), David Crystal (1941), and Randolph Churchill (1911).

Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Glenn Murcutt ranks 18Before him are John Vanbrugh (1664), Michael Ventris (1922), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), John Nash (1752), Joseph Paxton (1803), and Archibald Leitch (1865). After him are William Kent (1685), Edwin Lutyens (1869), Richard Norman Shaw (1831), Charles Barry (1795), Thomas Telford (1757), and Ralph Erskine (1914).