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=Neil clerehan=

Neil Clerehan, born in 1919, is a President’s Prize for the Hall of Fame Award(RVIA)-winning Australian Architect, born and raised in Melbourne. He established several architecture firms: Neil Clerehan Architects (1951-1962), Guilford Bell and Neil Clerehan (1962-1964), Neil Clerehan and Associates (1964-1980), Clerehan – Cran (1980-1996) and Neil Clerehan Architects (1996-current). His current firm is situated in 1 Maddock Street, Windsor, VIC, 3181. Clerehan has been a practicing architect for six decades already. His concept of the house is to frame for family life, making the best use of space and northern light. “I was and still am intrigued with living patterns, actual and possible, and the architectonic expression was and is to me only a frame for patterns. Therefore, I never produce intriguing forms.” Being grounded in the local traditions, Clerehan’s practice focuses on domestic architecture and puts forward Melbourne’s culture. Through this field, he has established his reputation. Not only is he known for his profession of architecture, but also for his encapsulation and dissemination of Architecture history (especially Melbourne’s Architectural History) through his publishing and community work. He wrote book chapters, obituaries of former colleagues, newspaper articles, reviews and entries into the Australian Dictionary of Biography such as Smudges, Victorian Modern and Australia’s Home, and the Small Home Services. His famous works include The Ross Fenner, second Clerehan houses and House for Pettit and Sevitt.

=Personal Life= Neil Clerehan was born in Brighton, Australia. As a boy, he had interest in architecture, and was encouraged by his parents. He inspected family investment properties with his father, and familiarized with works of current development in Australian Architecture through readings given by his mother whom studied painting at the National Gallery School. Clerehan matriculated in 1938. The following year, he returned to St Patrick’s and gained honours in European History, English, French, Latin, Chemistry and a bare pass in Math I. The year after, he enrolled in the architecture program at the Melbourne Technical College (RMIT University). Being educated at a small, private school in art subjects, he did not know architecture drafting tools. In 1941, Clerehan joined the University Rifles. In 1942, he was enlisted in AIF and was transferred to camp, then to Brisbane, Queensland and New Guinea until 1944, when he picked up malaria at Mline Bay. He was discharged and brought back to Melbourne. During this war period, he met and became a close friend with Robin Boyd. In 1946, he resumed his course in RMIT, but he left for Melbourne University to do the Atlier course, ran by the dour Leighton Irwin. After two years, he discontinued his final year, and enrolled in a new Bachelor of Architecture. He then graduated in 1950. During his school years, he also worked in Martin and Tribe office, and took his time off to work as a labourer on the Gordon Homes project. He registered as an architect. In 1951, he established his own practice in 1951. He set off for his own overseas journey, in 1952. He went to the United States of America. Within a year, he hitchhiked and travelled by bus to about fourty states, including east and west Taliesin where he met Frank Lloyd Wright. During this trip, he worked as a reporter for United Nations in New York. There, he met a lot of notable architects, including Philip Johnson, Walter Gropius, William Wurster, Mies van der Rohe and Oscar Niemeyer. He married Sonia Cole in 1955 in Christ Church, and moved to their first home in South Yarra from their unit in Grounds’ Hill Street, Toorak. By the late 1960s, they had four children so they moved to a bigger home with his mother-in-law in Walsh Street. Clerehan, N 1961, Best Australian Houses built by members of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Cheshire, Melbourne

=Collegues and Influences= After a year of travelling in United State of America, Nail Clerehan came back to Australia. His design afterwards was influenced by modern American Architecture. Neil Clerehan first met Robin Boyd on the day of World War I. After the war, they met again and had been working together for the Smudge, Victorian Modern and Small House Service. Neil Clerehan became a partner with David Cran and a close colleague after Cran worked for him for 10 years since 1972. They then became a close architectural friend until Cran died in 1996 in illness.

=Notable Works= The Simon House was the most prominent work of Bell Clerehan partnership. The firm produced two identifiable works which show the collaboration of each of the architect’s characteristic on it. The house had a rectangular plan, exposed post and beam structure wth the beam extends beyond the roof. It also has an extensive view over the bay. The house also had a broad gallery and barbeque area. In 1964, it won the Victorian Architectural Medal award. The Fenner House was produced after Clerehan opened his own practice in 1964. The house has two internal landscape courtyards which provided light and views to come into the room. It was orientated to face north to the street and the living room opens to the small paved through the full-height glazed doors. It also has grey external concrete blocks with a straight forward and few in number. Clerehan won two awards for his project house for Pettit sand Sevitt, the 1970 New South Wales architect’s award and the State Electricity Commission Award in Victoria. This design was very popular that it sells three in a week and continues to do so for a year. The design was expressed as a modular skeletal structure providing an adaptable frame for the walls. There is no entry hall. the front door opens directly to the sitting area.

=Awards= 1941	Student Competition Award for designing the Portico for the University

1964	Victorian Architecture Medal

1967 	RAIA Vic Chapter Bronze Medal Fenner Residence, 228 Domain Road South Yarra Victorian Architecture Medal Merchant Housing Award for a Standard Model House 1970	NSW Architect’s Award &State Electricity Commission Award

1971 	The 2973J House House for Petit and Sevitt

1972	Lot 634 Westleigh Estate

1973 	18 Fawkner Street South Yarra 90 Walsh Street, South Yarra

1974	Murray Maxwell Courtyard House

2004 	Victorian Chapter of the RAIA President’s Award for the Hall of Fame

References

Wikipedia Reference (Neil Clerehan) http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:9lRUSrWRDkQJ:www.architecture.com.au/i-cms_file%3Fpage%3D5643/JuryMembers-Website.pdf+neil+clerehan+award&hl=zh-CN&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShHeKumLs0DMn87cFfk9Qe4ubanPNPutgFU5XV88FgUtREgQk1EvCaL4H5LOZ_nfoqTcMFY1OA3-2pCgPinTSJV6iB3g4x0vQwvQR3kCSrh9fp2Ckhfg9iASFcmSx8vWNH66KdO&sig=AHIEtbREc2hR8xcpst0OnCtk9zogdFZkrw http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/E03159/ModMelb/mm2/lect/50_60_70/html/raiaaward.html http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/e03159/ModMelb/mm2/modmelbprac2/nc/ncbio.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/money/profile-neil-clerehan/2006/08/07/1154802816814.html http://digital.crowtherblayne.com.au/default.aspx?iid=33472&startpage=page0000009

Article: “Heide II”, Art and Australia, September 1968 Boyd, Robin Gerard Penleigh (1919 - 1971) Australian Dictionary of Biography Obituary: Barry Patten A life of many talents lived to the full http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/a-life-of-many-talents-lived-to-the-full/2008/04/27/1209234656207.html http://www.archmedia.com.au/aa/aaissue.php?issueid=200307&article=16&typeon=3 http://www.heide.com.au/downloads/Heide_Architecture_Fact_Sheet.pdf http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130269b.htm

Book: Clerehan, N 1961, Best Australian Houses built by members of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Cheshire, Melbourne Edquist, H and Black, R 2005, The Architecture of Neil Clerehan, RMIT University Press, Melbourne

Journal: http://www.architecture.com.au/architext/Cat/arch_ah.htm

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