Neville Gruzman
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Neville Gruzman, AM (1925 – 1 May 2005, Sydney, Australia) was an Australian architect and a former mayor of Woollahra in Sydney, Australia.
Graduating from Sydney University in 1952, Gruzman worked largely in residential architecture in Sydney. His works are varied forms of Modernism, known as Organic Modernism , and also Regionalism. Some cases showed a strong influence by the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, and Japanese post and beam architecture.
Gruzman began teaching at the University of New South Wales in the 1960s and employed and taught some notable Sydney Architects including Pritzker Prize winner Glenn Murcutt.
In 1970, he was the subject of the winning entry to the Archibald Prize, painted by Eric Smith.
