Haig Beck is a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He and Jackie Cooper are the editors of UME, an international review of architecture now published free online. They are the authors of Architectus: Between Order and Opportunity (ORO, USA and Singapore, 2009). Their monograph, Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Practice (Images Publishing, 2002) is a joint collaboration with Glenn Murcutt.
Haig Beck's Latest contributions
Advanced Engineering Building
An new integrated teaching and research facility at University of Queensland.
Hill End House
Architect Michael Rayner’s family home is a complex manipulation of shadow and light.
Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum
Cox Rayner Architects imprints the tectonic force of the landscape into the walls of a Queensland outback museum.
Brisbane Square
Denton Corker Marshall’s new office tower to house the Brisbane City Council ekes every architectural and civic opportunity out of a standard commercial high-rise project.
Glenn Murcutt: Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 2002
Talent, vision and commitment – and a consistent and significant contribution to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. Only a very select group of architects have met these criteria and been awarded the Pritzker Prize. Given annually to a living architect, the Pritzker Prize will be presented to Glenn Murcutt on 29 May at the Campidoglio, Rome. Murcutt is the first architect from this part of the world to receive this honour. Two different and personal accounts, one by Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper, and the other by Phil Harris and Adrian Welke, describe the man and his architecture, while Elizabeth Farrelly and Murcutt in conversation reflect on his aspirations, his commitments and his achievements.
