Milo Dunphy (1921-1996) was born in Sydney and trained in bushcrafts by his father Myles. He gained a degree in architecture with distinctions from Sydney Technical College 1947-1952, then began a town planning course at the University of Sydney and worked briefly with Davey & Brindley. After winning a Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship, he went to London in 1953 with friends Bill Workman and Ian Chaplin and travelled via bicycle through Europe and Scandinavia before returning in 1955. He worked briefly for Davey & Brindley, then Figgis & Jefferson, Eric Andrew and Geoffrey Twibill before beginning a partnership with Bruce Loder; Loder & Dunphy Architects, 1957. The firm won numerous commissions for churches, and often produced working drawings for the NSW Public Works Department. From the late 1950s, he was lecturing to architects and church groups on relationships between religion, architecture and the natural environment, and he became an active councillor on the NSW RAIA, especially as chair of its environment committee. In 1968, Bruce Loder left the partnership, while Milo began to focus on environmental activism. In 1972, he established and became director of the Total Environment Centre to educate and campaign on conservation of the natural environment. He was made an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of NSW in 1996,
Source
—Peter Meredith, 1999, Myles and Milo, Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
- Writers:
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Davina Jackson
- Date written:
- 2015
- Last updated:
- 2015
