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*1988 Made [[Member of the Order of Australia]].
*1988 Made [[Member of the Order of Australia]].
*1993 [[RAIA Gold Medal]].
*1993 [[RAIA Gold Medal]].

==Notes==
*Ken Woolley. Ancher/Mortlock/Woolley website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
http://www.amwarchitects.com.au/kwoolley.htm
*Ken Woolley and Ancher Mortlock & Woolley. Collector’s Club, Ken Woolley (Publisher’s note).THENILE.com.au. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
*Archive related to Pettit & Sevitt project homes, 1962-1977.Powerhouse Museum Sydney website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
*Our house: histories of Australian homes. Australian Heritage Council website. Retrieved 2010-04-14
*Archive related to Pettit & Sevitt project homes, 1962-1977.Powerhouse Museum Sydney website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
*Australian Architects: Ken Woolley – Royal Australian Institute of Architects
*NSW Wilkinson Award winners. Australian Institute of Architects website. Retrieved 2010-04-14. http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=8173
*The Sydney Regional Style website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
*Woolley House, Mosman website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.



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Ken F. Woolley AM, B.Arch (Hons) LAIA, (born 29 May 1933 in Sydney) is an influential Australian architect. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he is best known for his contributions to project housing with Pettit and Sevitt, the Wilkinson Award winning Mosman house, and his longstanding partnership with Sydney Ancher and Bryce Mortlock. He is regarded as being a prominent figure in the development of the Sydney School movement and Australian vernacular building.[1]

Personal life

Woolley studied at the University of Sydney after attending Sydney Boys’ High School, and graduated in 1955 with First Class Honours in Architecture and a three medals.[2] As an undergraduate student, he worked as a trainee at the NSW Government Architect’s office, moving up to the position of Design Architect once he graduated. He remained in this position until 1963, with the exception of a year spent working as an Assistant Architect with Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in London, during 1956-7. [6, p12] This professional opportunity enabled him to work on some major projects, such as The University of Sydney’s Fisher Library and the State Government Offices, at an unusually young age.

Notable projects

Woolley took on a growing number of outside projects while still working with the Government Architect. He generated a reputation in the field of housing, winning a low cost competition for an exhibition house with Michael Dysart, in 1958. Consequently, both architects were invited to submit designs for a display village of model project houses in Carlingford, in 1961, proving to be a successful event that signaled the architect designed project house to be a welcome alternative to the individually designed and standard range houses of the time. He began a working relationship with the project housing company, Pettit and Sevitt, the same year, creating house types of high quality design and construction. [6, p15]. “Split Level”, “Lowline” and other early forms incorporated design principles through simple lines, natural features and an emphasis on functionalism. They were widely affordable due to the standardised usage of materials: brick veneer construction, Gyprock plasterboard interior wall cladding, Monier concrete tiles and Stegbar aluminum windows. Often comprised of basic grids, rectangular planes and flat roofs, and always firmly grounded with room to be easily adapted to various sites and terrains. [4] These sophisticated types underwent various levels of modifications as they were marketed through display villages and later sold to individual buyers, who had a consultation with the architect to discuss the interior and exterior details, as a part of the service. Through these modifications based on the clients’ needs and clever marketing, these houses gained an unprecedented popularity with prominent architects worldwide. [5]

At the completion of the Mosman house in 1962, a work he would become most famous for, Ken Woolley emerged as a leading figure in a regional romantic movement often referred to as Sydney Style. Combining the influence of organic architecture, brutalism and the arts and crafts movement together with elements of the International Style, this new movement came to embody the harmonious relationships between man and nature as intimate domestic spaces in the Australian bushland.

Awards

  • 1955 Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship University Medal.
  • 1958 Winner of Australia’s Family Home Competition with Michael Dysart, for a low cost house.
  • 1962 RAIA Wilkinson Award for a house of Outstanding Merit for Ken Woolley’s own house at Mosman.
    • RAIA Sulman Medal and RIBA Bronze Medal awarded to Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Government Design Architect, Ken Woolley.
  • 1963 Sulman and Wilkinson Awards Exhibition Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Sydney.
  • 1964 Joint award winner, Sunday Telegraph Small House design competition.
  • 1967 RAIA Project House Design Award - $10,000-$13,000 category.
    • RAIA Blacket Award for a building of Outstanding Merit for Union Building, University of Newcastle.
    • EXPO, Montreal: House at Mosman exhibited.
  • 1968 RAIA Wilkinson Award for housing of Outstanding Architectural Merit, The Penthouses, Rushcutters Bay.
    • RAIA Project House Design Award - $10,000-$17,000 category.
    • The Age’ (Melbourne) House Award.
    • Western Australia Project House Award, RAIA.
    • Awarded St. Regis-ACI Travelling Scholarship.
    • Limited competition for National Gallery, Canberra, placed second (only entry to be highly commended).
  • 1969 RAIA Project House Design Award - $10,000-$13,000 category.
    • RAIA Project House Design Award - $10,000-$18,000 category.
    • RAIA Blacket Award for Staff House, University of Newcastle.
  • 1970 EXPO, Tokyo: House at Mosman, Macquarie University Union, ‘The Penthouses’, exhibited.
    • RAIA Project House Design Award – under $12,000 category.
    • RAIA Project House Design Award - $12,000-$16,000 category.
  • 1972 RAIA NSW Merit Award, Wentworth Union Building, University of Sydney.
  • 1973 RAIA Project House Design Award – over $17,500 category.
  • 1974 RAIA Project Merchant Housing Award (Category E – over $20,000).
  • 1976 RAIA Merit Award, for Attached Housing, Macquarie Fields, Housing Commission of NSW.
    • RAIA Project Merchant Housing Award (Category E – over $30,000).
    • RAIA Project Merchant Housing Award (Category C - $22,100-$26,000).
  • 1977 RAIA Project Merchant Housing Award (Category C - $24,000-$29,000).
  • 1978 Bathurst Orange Housing Competition: second prize.
    • RAIA Merit Award for work of Outstanding Environmental Design for Sydney Square, in collaboration with Noel Bell-Ridley Smith.
  • 1979 Winner of limited competition for Institute of Criminology, Canberra, ACT.
  • 1980 RAIA Merit Award for The Kiosk Gardens Restaurant.
    • Design Development and Documentation for Government Architect.
    • Limited competition winner, 220 townhouses and flats, Lane Cove, NSW, for Lend Lease Homes Pty Ltd.
  • 1981 RAIA Merit Award for Woolley House, Paddington.
  • 1982 RAIA Merit Award for West Amenities Refit and Control Building, Garden Island.
    • RAIA Award Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
  • 1983 RAIA Wilkinson Award for a house of Outstanding Merit for Woolley House, Paddington.
    • RAIA Civic Design Award for Sydney Square.
    • Limited competition winner for the National Archives, Canberra.
    • Winner RAIA Ideas Competition for the Gateway Site, Circular Quay, Sydney.
    • Highly Commended BHP Steel Award for West Amenities Control and Refit Building and Guided Missile Launching System Buildings, Garden Island.
  • 1984 RAIA Merit Award for Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, Leura.
  • 1985 Nominated for RAIA for Commonwealth Association of Architects Sir Robert Matthew Award. [6, Australian Architects: Ken Woolley p22]
  • 1987 RAIA Wilkinson Award for house of Outstanding Merit for Weekender, Palm Beach. [7]
    • Robin Boyd Award for Woolley House, Paddington.
  • 1988 Made Member of the Order of Australia.
  • 1993 RAIA Gold Medal.

Notes

  • Ken Woolley. Ancher/Mortlock/Woolley website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.

http://www.amwarchitects.com.au/kwoolley.htm

  • Ken Woolley and Ancher Mortlock & Woolley. Collector’s Club, Ken Woolley (Publisher’s note).THENILE.com.au. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  • Archive related to Pettit & Sevitt project homes, 1962-1977.Powerhouse Museum Sydney website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  • Our house: histories of Australian homes. Australian Heritage Council website. Retrieved 2010-04-14
  • Archive related to Pettit & Sevitt project homes, 1962-1977.Powerhouse Museum Sydney website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  • Australian Architects: Ken Woolley – Royal Australian Institute of Architects
  • NSW Wilkinson Award winners. Australian Institute of Architects website. Retrieved 2010-04-14. http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=8173
  • The Sydney Regional Style website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  • Woolley House, Mosman website. Retrieved 2010-04-14.


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