Bryce Mortlock
| Bryce Mortlock | |
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Dr. Bryce Mortlock AM Hon D.Arch, B.Arch LFRAIA RIBA MRAPI
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Harold Bryce Mortlock 14 October 1921 Lithgow, Australia |
| Died | 3 July 2004 (aged 82) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Spouse(s) | Peggy Mortlock (died January 2008) |
Dr. Bryce Mortlock (14 October 1921 – 3 July 2004) was an Australian architect and planner. In partnership with Sydney Ancher, Stuart Murray and Ken Woolley, his career spanned the era in which modern Australian architecture was consolidated.
During his 40-year-plus career as an architect, Bryce was awarded the Alfred Bossom Medal in London (1951); New South Wales’s prestigious Sulman Prize (1960) and Merit Award (1972); the RAIA’s top annual award, the RAIA Gold Medal (1979); the Queen’s Jubilee Medal (1977); the RAIA Victorian Chapter Bronze Medal (1981); an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Melbourne (1988); and a Member, Order of Australia (1982). He was nominated as a Life Fellow of the RAIA in 1970.
Two of his best known projects include the Sulman Award winning Badham House in Sydney’s Cronulla and the Engineering Precinct at Sydney University. He was also responsible for the University of Melbourne master plan.
Mortlock was born in Lithgow on 14 October 1921 where his father was an engineer at the local steel works. His father died when Bryce was still young and his mother moved the family to live with relatives in Sydney, in the harbour side suburb of Five Dock. There, observation of the local boat builders fostered Bryce’s interest in design and construction and he built several boats while still at school.
A partnership with Alan and Bill Payne from 1938 resulted in the design of the Payne-Mortlock sailing canoe, one of the few all- Australian designed senior class sailing boats. After the outbreak of World War II, Bryce travelled to Canada where he trained as a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned to Australia in 1945 in anticipation of service in the Pacific theatre but the war ended before any combat posting.
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