Perrott Lyon Mathieson

Perrott Lyon Mathieson is an Australian architecture firm based in Melbourne.

It was founded by Leslie M Perrott in 1918. Leslie M. Perrott Senior gained dominance in this field during the inter-war period. He started his firm Leslie M. Perrott & Associates in 1918 which slowly gained popularity with his 1929 design for Alexander Hotel (now the Park Plaza)with 200 bedrooms and 200 bathrooms. In 1934 he got Chevron, a private hotel constructed in sixteen weeks for Melbourne’s centenary celebrations. His modern Hotel Australia (1939) which soon became the social epicentre of Melbourne. Perrott Senior’s son, Leslie Junior (1926–2001), took over the firm, to expand the office during the post-war boom. In 1971 the firm became Perrott Lyon Timlock & Kesa. A great part of their practice involved documenting and bringing to completion the projects of other architects such as Welton-Peckett's design for the Southern Cross hotel in 1963, one of their earliest works. It grew over the years to become one of the largest in the nation that during the seventies, the Perrott office was working on no fewer than four major Collins Street office towers. One of them was the controversial Nauru House. The Perrott office designed the Museum underground station (now Melbourne Central) and Telstra Corporate Centre, regarded as the best commercial building during the construction boom of the eighties. The firm also became involved in the design of Colleges of Advanced Education, notably the Janefield campus of the Preston Institute of Technology (now RMIT) and the Caulfield Institute of Technology (now Monash University). The firm also designed the Flinders Gate development which was renamed Gas & Fuel Towers by its developer. In 1974, the firm was renamed to Perrott Lyon Mathieson, after John Timlock and Kesa retired, thus making Brian Mathieson the named partner, who is currently in-charge of the firm, which has lasted for almost a century since its beginning in 1918.

Leslie M. Perrott Senior, from a trade background, had become a dominant architect in the inter-war period. A strict teetotaler, he was, nevertheless, the leading designer of Melbourne’s grand hotels.

Leslie Marsh Perrott Senior (1892 – 1975), born in Gippsland, Victoria, moved to Melbourne, after the death of his father, with the family. Perrott studied architecture at the Melbourne Technical College.

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