Richard Leplastrier
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Richard Leplastrier (born 1939, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian Architect.
After graduation from Sydney University in 1963, he worked in the Sydney office of Jørn Utzon from 1964 to 1966 assisting with documentation of the Sydney Opera House. He studied at Kyoto University under Tomoya Masuda and worked in the office of Kenzo Tange in Tokyo.
In 1996 he received the New South Wales Royal Australian Institute of Architects 'Special Jury Award'. He was awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1999 and in 2004 was awarded the Spirit Of Nature Wood Architecture Award.
Leplastrier established his own practice in 1970 and works from his studio in Sydney's Lovett Bay. He teaches master classes for beginning and established architects with his colleagues Glenn Murcutt and Peter Stutchbury.
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[edit] Selected Works
- 1974-76: Palm Garden House, Northern Beaches, Sydney
- 1981-84 1989-90: Belligen House and Studio, New South Wales
- 1988-91: Rainforest House, Mapleton, Queensland
- 1988-92: Tom Uren House, Balmain, Sydney
- 1994: Lovett Bay House, Sydney
- 1996: Cloudy Bay Retreat, Bruny Island, Tasmania
- 1997: Watson's Bay House, Sydney
- 1997-8, 2000: Blue Mountains House and Studio, Leura, New South Wales
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[edit] Sources
- Lehtimaki, Kristiina (Editor); Petri Neuvonen (Editor), Griffiths Gareth (Translator) (2004). Richard Leplastrier - Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award 2004. Rakennustieto Publishing, 80 pages. ISBN 9516827489.
