Peter Corrigan
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Peter Corrigan AM |
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6 May 1939 Daylesford, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 1 December 2016 (aged 77) Carlton North, Victoria, Australia |
| Alma mater | Christian Brothers College, St Kilda, Melbourne University, at Yale University Masters Environmental Design and Doctor of Architecture, Adjunct Professor and at RMIT University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Edmond and Corrigan |
| Buildings | RMIT Building 8, Melbourne, Australia |
Peter Russell Corrigan AM (6 May 1941 – 1 December 2016) was an Australian architect and was involved in the completion of works in stage and set design.
Corrigan was educated at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and then completed his degree in architecture, in 1966 at Melbourne University. He further pursued his studies at Yale University in 1969 under Robert Venturi, completing a Masters in Environmental Design. Having worked for Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolf, César Pelli and Kevin Roche in New Haven, he returned to Australia in 1974 where he formed his practice, Edmond and Corrigan, a partnership with his wife initiated in 1975, Maggie Edmond. As a part of Edmond and Corrigan, they won 35 RAIA state awards and four Natural Architectural Design awards.
He obtained his honorary Doctor of Architecture in 1989, for his contribution to Australian Architectural theory and design. Further Adjunct Professor in 1989, at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
Having studied at RMIT, Corrigan was a Professor of Architecture at RMIT University and taught architectural design and history for over 30 years. He marked his name as an internationally renowned architect, theatre designer, author and academic, based in Melbourne having completed costume set design for over 100 productions, in Australia. He had an enduring interest in architectural history and culture and collected an internationally significant large private library of architectural books, including many rare works on drawing and design. In 1983–84 Corrigan was a guest professor at Graduate School of Design Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1991 he was a guest lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. In same year he was promoted at the Third Belgrade Triennial of World Architecture exhibition in Galerija Kulturmog Centra Beograda "39 prominent architects of the world". Likewise the work of Edmond and Corrigan has been exhibited internationally in 1991, 1999 and 2002 at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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