Vale Harold Bryce Mortlock 19212004
[ UniNews Vol. 13, No. 15
23 August - 6 September 2004 ]
Harold Bryce Mortlock AM, the eminent Sydney architect and Master Planner of the University of Melbourne 19681997, has died at 82.
Graduating with first class honours in architecture from the University of Sydney and winning Sydneys University Medal (1950), Bryce Mortlock led a distinguished career marked by a succession of prestigious awards.
As a director of the well-known firm of Ancher Mortlock and Woolley, he received the RAIA Sulman Award for the Badham House in Cronulla in 1960, the Gold Medal of the RAIA in 1979, and the Victorian Chapter Bronze Medal, shared with members of the University of Melbourne associated with the project for restoration of the Universitys grounds in 1981. He was President of the RAIA 197576.
Bryce Mortlock was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1982 and he was honored by the University of Melbourne in 1988 with the degree of Doctor of Architecture (Honoris Causa).
Former Vice-Principal of the University of Melbourne, Mr Ray Marginson, says The principles established by Bryce Mortlock, with great originality, in the 1965 Master Plan, are valid still today.
His setting out of envelopes, showing where buildings must not be built, and his courtyards and traffic circulation planning, formed the basis for the work of Professor Carrick Chambers, the Controller of Buildings, Maurie Pawsey, and myself, in restoring the grounds to what they are today. All this guided the building expansion of the 1970s and the work of the Buildings Committee.
Bryce Mortlock made a lasting and significant contribution, over 30 years, to the creation of the physical environs of the modern University of Melbourne.
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