For more than 20 years, the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass has welcomed architects from around the world to learn from the best.
In this series, we continue the search for what mastery really means.
We meet some of the most awarded architects and hear what shaped them, as they reveal what decades have distilled.
Welcome to the Masters Project - where we ask: What does it really take to master architecture?
In this episode, we meet Philip Cox AO.
From the start, Philip Cox’s practice has been about public architecture and civic identity.
Awarded the premier honour of the Sulman medal three times - in 1963, 1965 and 1989, the first time was at just 24 years of age. Twice by 26.
It might have been the influence of his friend and colleague, the art critic Robert Hughes that sparked his search to embody abstract ideas of culture and identity in physical form. Whatever spurred Cox’s interest in art, culture and architecture, it has been a remarkable career of more than 60 years that includes some of Australia’s most emblematic cultural places: Yulara near Uluru; the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney Exhibition Centre, the National Wine Centre. For sports lovers, the Cox name is responsible for Bruce Stadium, Rod Laver Arena and AAMI Park, and part of the MCG, the Sydney Football Stadiums. Courts in Perth and Brisbane. And internationally, significant works in China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia and Oman - and more recently, at Villers Bretonneaux in France - the Cox name is synonymous not only with our own national identity in sports and culture, but for so many here and around the world.
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