Peter Neil Muller (b. 1927) was educated at St Peter’s School Collegiate, Adelaide, and completed an engineering degree at the University of Adelaide (1945-48), before obtaining an M.Arch at the University of Pennsylvania (1950-51; assisted by three travelling scholarships, including a Fulbright grant. In 1952 he began to practice in Sydney and quickly established national recognition for innovative organic (earthy architecture, adapting Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophies of harmonious union between buildings and landscapes. His early 1950s Sydney north shore houses, notably the Audette (designed 1952), Molinari (1953), Muller (1954) and Richardson (1955) were outstanding precursors of the naturalistic architecture movement that was described by Milo Dunphy (1962) as 'the Sydney School’. Muller later built various significant commercial buildings and country homes around New South Wales, then moved with wife Carole to Bali, Indonesia, around 1972. He continued designing houses and resorts in Indonesia, Tahiti, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He later retired to Sydney, then moved to Paris, then returned to Adelaide and is now living again in Sydney (2015).
—Emmanuel, Muriel (ed) and Dennis Sharp. 1980. Contemporary Architects. London: Macmillan.
—Muller, Peter. Website petermuller.org
—Urford, Jacqueline. 1993. The Architecture of Peter Muller. University of Sydney Masters thesis.
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Davina Jackson
- Date written:
- 2015
- Last updated:
- 2015
