Neville Quarry AM (1933–2004) was an Australian architect, architectural academic, critic and educator.

Early life

Neville Quarry was born in Coburg, Victoria in 1933. He commenced his architectural studies at the University of Melbourne and he graduated in 1956, undertaking his final year of study in New Zealand.[1]

Academic career

In 1971 Neville Quarry moved to Lae, Papua New Guinea as the first Head of the School of Architecture at the Papua New Guinea Institute (now University) of Technology. He then moved back to Australia in 1976 to take up a position at the NSW Institute of Technology (later University of Technology, Sydney). He became Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at UTS. He retired from academia in 1994.

Achievements

  • In 1991 Quarry was the first Australian Commissioner to the Venice Architecture Biennale with an exhibition titled Architetti Australiani, that featured the work of architects from South East Queensland including Gabriel Poole, Lindsay and Kerry Clare and Rex Addison.
  • In 1994 Neville Quarry was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal the highest achievement for an individual architect, as a recognition to his contribution to architecture, education and design. He was the first architecture academic to be awarded the medal.

Death

Neville Quarry died in Sydney from cancer, five weeks after the initial diagnosis, October 2004, aged 70-71.[2]

Legacy

A prize titled the Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize is awarded annually by the Australian Institute of Architects.The Prize is awarded on the basis of demonstrated national or international peer recognition for significant contribution to architectural education in one or more of the following assessment categories: teaching, scholarship, research, leadership and community engagement. [3]

See also

Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal

References

  1. "Professor Neville Quarry b. 1933". Design & Art Australia Online. 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. "A True Believer, A Great Teacher". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 October 2004. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  3. "Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize". Architecture.com.au. Retrieved 20 May 2023.

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