Peter Corrigan

Peter Corrigan
Born	1941
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Christian Brothers College, St Kilda, Melbourne University, at Yale University Masters Environmental Design and Doctor of Architecture, Adjunct Professor and at RMIT University
Work
Practice	Edmond and Corrigan
Buildings	RMIT Building 8, Melbourne, Australia

Peter Russell Corrigan was born in 1941, Australia. As an Australian architect and has been involved in the completion of works in stage and set design.

Early Life and Life Achievements

Corrigan was educated at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and then completed his degree in Architecture, in the year of 1966 at Melbourne University. He then further pursued his studies at Yale University 1969 under Robert Venturi, completing a Masters in Environmental Design. Having worked for Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolf, Ceasar Pelli and Kevin Roche in New Haven, he returned to Australia in 1974 where he formed his practice, Edmond and Corrigan, a partnership with his wife initiated in 1975, Maggie Edmond. As a part of Edmond & Corrigan Pty. Ltd they have won 35 RAIA state awards and four Natural Architectural Design awards. He obtained his honorary Doctor of Architecture in 1989, for ‘his contribution to Australian Architectural theory and design’. Further Adjunct Professor in 1989, at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Having studied at RMIT, Corrigan is now a Professor of Architecture at RMIT University and is currently teaching architectural design and history and doing so for over 30 years. He marked his name, as an internationally renowned architect, theatre designer, author and academic, based in Melbourne having completed costume set design for over 100 productions, in Australia He has an enduring interest in architectural history and culture and has collected an internationally significant large private library of architectural books, including many rare works on drawing and design. In 1983-84 Corrigan was a guest professor at Graduate School of Design Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A, and in 1991 he was a Guest lecture at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy in same year he was promoted at the Third Belgrade Triennial of World Architecture exhibition in, Galerija Kulturmog Centra Beograda “39 prominent architects of the world”. Likewise the work of Edmond and Corrigan has been exhibited internationally in 1991, 1999 and 2002 at the Venice Biennale. Currently Edmond & Corrigan is still in practise in Melbourne and Corrigan also teaching and lecturing at RMIT.

Projects

Since returning to Australia and commencing his practice Corrigan's work and styles have developed over the years.

The Chapel of St Josephs is located in 27-29 Strabane Avenues, Box Hill. It lies in the middle of the site with an inflected curve plan, with a long curved ramp from the street provides access to the building. The Car park is located at the back of the building which gives enough space to view the building in a full circle, as one drives through.

The Chapel is a Post- Modern, three-dimensional solid brick building, with a flat-roofed canopy that is the most significant feature of the building. The use of red and cream brick creates subtle highlighted architectural effects not only on front façade, but also within its surrounds. The timber framed rectangular north-east facing windows, with the identical sized windows to the right of the curvy wall, brings about a dynamic contrast to the mostly curved shaped building. The work of Peter Corrigan and, the Chapel of St Joseph, has been recognized over years by many awards. The chapel won the RAIA (Victorian Chapter) inaugural 25 Year Award and the RAIA’s National gold medal to Peter Corrigan himself.

Reading Books Shop Heritage listed post office founded in 1910, and renovated to be a bookshop and completed in 2005 And is one of Peter Corrigan his latest works. Located on 253 Bay St, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 3207 It’s a mezzanine in one hand and a freestanding form in the middle of the room on the other. With the sharp angels and its flat surfaces it filled the bookshop. Surrounding the room are bookshelves up to the first floor, This is an open space without walls.

• Lux house alteration: front porch- RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 2005

• Reading bookshop: RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 2005

• Victorian College of the Art- school of Drama: RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan in association with -Castles Stephenson+ turner -Completed: 2004

• Academy center for Newman College and St Mary’s college: RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 2002

• Niagara Galleries: RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 2002

• Lehrer residence: RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -RAIA Victoria State chapter award of merit 2000

• Exhibition centre, showground stage-1RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 1997 -Winner RAIA Victoria State chapter award of merit 1997

• Ringwood plaza:, RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 1994 -Winner of: RAIA Victoria State chapter award, new institutional public buildings, 1995 RAIA Victoria State chapter award, award for urban design, 1995

• Kew house: RAIA project profile

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 1982 -Winner of: RAIA Victoria State chapter housing merit award, 1982

• Freedom Club Child-care Centre: Keysborough

-Architects: Edmond & Corrigan -Completed: 1977

• Church of the Resurrection: keysborough

-Architects: Edmonds & Corrigan Architects -Completed: 1976 -winner: RAIA Victoria State chapter housing merit award, 1981

Building 8

Building 8 built in 1993, is one of Corrigan’s most recognised buildings is located in Swanston street Melbourne at the University of RMIT. The building creates characteristics of its own along with its structure, several colours and situated materials. Built on a budget with tough constraints, the designing of building 8 needed to accommodate buildings below and next door as it is currently sitting on top of John Andrew’s unfinished union building. Following the construction of building 8 it was found necessary to include a “new lift and service core” to allow access to the upper floors. In addition to this “the deep floor plate” was also maximised allowing further developed for rooms located on the upper floors. Detail within the interior such as “balustrades and hand railing” have been positioned in a way giving the building a unique yet chaotic sentiment. Noticeable along the streetscape of Swanston street, building eights roof gives the building part of its individuality with the positioning of the roofs form and materiality. The building all around structure also provides an outlook of many different uses of materials for different areas, some of which include “coloured stone facades, steel pipe strut supports and a polychrome and polygon brick” shown within parts of the building. All of which have an impact on RMIT’s atmosphere.

Awards

• Resurrection School, Keysborough, Vic., 1975–78

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Bronze Medal, Building Category, 1979

• Church of the Resurrection, Keysborough, Vic., 1975–76

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Citation, Building Category, 1981

• Chapel of St Joseph, Box Hill, Vic., 1975–76

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Outstanding Architecture Award, New Buildings Category, 1983

• Caroline Chisolm Terrace, Keysborough, Vic., 1977–79

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Citation, New Housing Category, 1981

• McCartney House, Kew, Vic., 1980–82

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Outstanding Architecture Award Housing Category, 1982

• RAIA National Housing Award Citation

• Kay Street Housing, Carlton, Vic., 1983–84

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Outstanding Architecture Award, Housing Category, 1985

• Charman House, Balwyn, Vic., 1983–84

• National Dulux Colour Award, Interior Residential, 1987

• National Dulux Colour Award, Exterior Residential, 1987

• Walshe House Extension, Armadale, Vic., 1985–87

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Outstanding Architecture Award, Interior Category, 1988

• Belconnen Community Centre, Belconnen Town Centre, Canberra ACT, 1985–88

• RAIA ACT Chapter Citation, Building Category, 1988

• Dandenong College of TAFE, Stage III, Dandenong, Vic., 1985–88

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Bronze Medal for Outstanding Architecture,

• New Institutional Category, 1989

• RAIA Sir Zelman Cowen Award, National Citation, 1989

Athan House, Monbulk, Vic., 1986–88

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Bronze Medal for Outstanding Architecture Award, New Residential Category, 1989

Walsh House, Scheme for Pool Pavilion, 1993–94

• Architecture Australia Prize for Unbuilt Work, 1994

• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: Building 8 Extension, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic., 1990–94

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Architecture Medal, 1995

• City of Melbourne Building and Planning Award,

• Institutional Buildings Category, 1995

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Institutional Alterations and Extensions Award, 1995

• RAIA Walter Burley Griffin National Award for Urban Design, 1995

• Windsor Fire Station, Windsor, Vic., 1993–96

• Metal Building Award, Certificate of Merit, 1996

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Award of Merit, BHP Colorbond Steel Award, 1997

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Award of Merit, Commercial Category, 1997

• Ringwood Library Complex, Civic Plaza, Ringwood, Vic., 1994–95

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Urban Design Award, 1995

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Award of Merit, Institutional Category, 1996

• Stage I, Exhibition Centre Showgrounds, Ascot Vale, Vic., 1996

• RAIA Vic. Chapter Award of Merit, Commercial Category, 1997

• Niagara Galleries, Richmond, Vic., 2001.

• Dulux Colour Awards, Commercial Exterior Winner, 2002

• R.A.I.A. Vic. Chapter BHP Colorbond Award, 2002

Exhibitions

• Four Melbourne Architects, Powell Street Gallery,sth Yarra, Vic, 1979

• The ’Completion of Engehurst’ :The work of 20 Australian architects, RAIA Conference, The Pleasure of Architecture, NSW Institute of Technology,NSW,1980

• Australian Perspecta 1981: A biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW, 1981

• Seven in the seventies, Monash University Gallery, Visual arts Department, Monash University, Clayton, 1981

• Newcastle Harbour Foreshore and Urban Design Competition exhibition of entries, City Hall, Newcastle, NSW (Peter Corrigan architect and James Sinatra, landscape architect), 1982

• Australian and British Stage Design, Myer Gallery, Adelaide, in association with the Adelaide Festival; Qld Cultural Centre, Brisbane; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery; Blaxland Gallery, Myer, Sydney, 1982

• Old Continent: New Building, International Travelling Exhibition of Australian, NSW; Paris; London: Ghent; Geneva; Bonn: Rome; Milan; and New York; Washington; Houston; San Francisco: Los Angeles in the USA, 1982-5

• XIIeme Biennale de Paris 1982: Section Architecture, Modernity or the Spirit of the Times, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1982

• Conflict in Cities, Slide exhibition, CAA RAIA Conference, Regent Hotel, Sydney, 1983

• Transporting Art: Impressions of the Painted Tram Project, Victorian Ministry for the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, 1983

• Work by Peter Corrigan, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, 1983

• Architecture as Idea, RMIT Gallery and Geelong Regional Gallery, Vic, 1984

• Organisation Internationale des Scenographes and Techniciens et Architectures de Theatre, Conference Exhibition Tokyo, 1984

• 5 AR: Artists and Architects ’86, George Paton gallery, University of Melbourne, 1986

• Follies for the Famous, RAIA Vic. Chapter, Architecture Week Exhibition, Lowe Melbourne Town Hall, 1986

• Slouching towards Bethlehem an Exhibition of Preparatory and Informal Drawings, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Vic; University of Tasmania; Canberra school of Art Gallery, 1986

• The art Foundation of Vic.: Silver Centrepiece Competition, National Gallery of Victoria, 1987

• Melbourne’s Unseen Might-Have-Beens Exhibition: Unbuilt Projects, RAIA Vic. Chapter, Architecture Week Exhibition, Lower Melbourne Town hall, 1987

• Playbox Retrospective Exhibition (set Designs), Westpac Gallery Melbourne, 1987

• Architects in their Drawings, 70 Arden Street, Nth Melbourne, 1988 15 Mountain Houses, Thredbo Development Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, in con junction with RAIA Conference, Sydney, an subsequently Tusculum gallery, Potts Points, NSW, 1988

• Stage as Space, international seminar and exhibition, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, 1988

• ’Pholiota project’, Walter Burley Griffin: A Review, Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Clayton, 1988

• Collaborative Designs: Working together in Architecture, the Meat Market Craft Centre, Nth Melbourne (Peter Coriggan, Peter Sands), 1988

• Suburbanism, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1988

• The House of Fiction, Domestic, Blueprints in Wood, The Crafts Council of NSW, Craft Centre Gallery, Sydney, Milan Furniture. New York Designers & Australian Cities, 1988-9

• Home Sweet Home: Changes in Domestic Architecture in Victoria 1839-1987, RAIA Exhibition, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989–90 RAIA Exhibition, Museum of Victoria, Mlbourne, 1989–90

• Second International Design Forum: Australian Pavilion, Singapore, 1990

• Third Bekgrade Triennial of World Architecture, ’30 prominent architects in the world’ section, Galerija Kulturnog Centra Belgrade, 1991

• Quinta Mostra Internazionale di Architettura: Biennale Venezia Architettura, Biennale Venezia, Giardino di Castello Venice, 1991

• Caravan Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1992

• Export architecture: The Australian Architecture Exhibition from Venice Biennale 1991, Clapin Burdett Furniture Showroom, Sydney, 1992

• Edmond & Corrigan: Drawings and Models, Curve, Tolarno Galleries, Fitzroy, Vic., 1995

• A Bow of Burning Gold: Some Arrows of Desire, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, Sth Australia, 1996

• Out of the Shadows: Aspects of Antipodean Architecture RIAS Gallery, Edinburgh, 1996

• The Brick Show, VicArts and Australia Council, Monash Art Gallery, Vic 2000

• Notable+Modern: Post War Domestic Architecture in the city Of Glen Eira, Glen Eira Ciry Gallery, Vic 2001

Teaching

• Lecturer in History and Design Instructor RMIT, Melbourne, 1975 – present

• Guest Lecturer, Cranbrook Institute, Michigan; and Washington University, St Louis, USA, 1983

• Guest Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Boston, USA, 1983-4

• Guest lecturer, Facolto di Architetture, Politecnico di Trino, Turin, Italy, 1991

• Keynote Public Lecture, Wellington Civic Square Opening New Zealand, 1991

• Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Design & Construction, RMIT University, 1993 – Present

• Guest Speaker, RAIA National Convention, Adelaide, 1996

• Guest Critic, Review of Design 5 Seminar, University of Melbourne, 1998

• Guest Speaker, New Asian Cities Conference (including Rem Koolhasas and Ken Yeang0, Kuala Lumpur, 1998

• Talk to Design students, Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, 1999

• Chairman, 21 Years Since 4 Melbourne Architects, Half-Time Club 21 Plus Series, 2000

• SONA Lectures: “Recent Work: A Process”, UWA & Curtin University Perth, 2002

References

Electronic Reference

External links

• Peter Corrigan's webpage at RMIT University
• peter corrigan
• Edmond and Corrigan
• Awards received by Edmond and Corrigan
• Ringwood Library
• RMIT Building 8
• Athan house article in Aardvark

• The Writings of Maggie Edmond & Corrigan, Building 8, Edmond and Corrigan at RMIT

van Schaik, L. 'Building 8: Edmond & Corrigan at RMIT', Schwartz/Transition,

• Conrad Hamann, Cities of hope: Australian architecture and design by Edmond and Corrigan, 1962–1992, Oxford University Press, 1993