Andrew Andersons: Architecture and the Public Realm

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** Winner, National Trust Heritage Awards 2022, resources and publications ** Distinguished architect Andrew Andersons has redefined Australia's art galleries over the last five decades (in Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and regionally) and his award-winning designs have extended the NSW Parliament and transformed the State Library of New South Wales. After two decades in the Government Architect's Branch, Andersons joined PTW Architects for a new period marked by renovation of the Capitol Theatre, design of the City Recital Hall and the Roslyn Packer Theatre, along with offices and major apartment buildings from Bondi to Canberra. Andersons' work has reimagined industrial areas of Sydney's shorelines, transforming Darling Harbour, Walsh Bay, Jones Bay and Barangaroo, and redefined the Sydney Opera House and East Circular Quay as Australia's 'first national precinct' and pre-eminent civic gathering place. In this landmark book, Bernice Murphy and Leon Paroissien draw on interviews and research over many years to illuminate Andersons' life and achievements.

Bernice Murphy has been national director of Museums Australia since 2006, with more than three decades of museums-sector experience. She was chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, from 1989 until 1997 and director of the museum from 1997 until 1998. She is the editor of Museums Australia Magazine. Leon Paroissien AM has been chairman of the City of Sydney Public Art Advisory Panel since 2007. He was founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, from 1989 until 1997 and founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, from 2001 until 2003. He has been Adjunct Professor: Design and Architecture, University of Canberra (2004 - 2010); Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (2006 - 2007); Editor, Visual Arts and Culture: An International Journal of Contemporary Art (1997 - 2001); Co-editor, Art and Australia (1987-1988) and Editor (1989-1990).