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575:' (RAIA) National President Warren Kerr on Bryce Mortlock: "Bryce Mortlock was well-known for his energetic support of the architectural profession and the RAIA, and for his willingness to speak out on matters of importance, especially as they affected good design," Mr Kerr said. "The contributions he made as the RAIA’s NSW Chapter President from 1970–1972 and RAIA National President from 1975–1976 will long be remembered". "He was also widely known as a talented architect of the highest order, who justly received awards for his work on more than one continent." 82: 374: 158: 683: 589: 452: 313: 520:. Upon his return, Mortlock and Stuart Murray took up full-time work with Sydney Ancher's firm in 1952. Eight years later he won the Sulman Award for the Badham House at Cronulla. Bryce's design reflected the firm's adherence to the International style, while anticipating the so-called ‘Sydney Regional’ style with which the firm would become associated over the next decade. 27: 543:
home, but one which he held until the late 1990s, describing it as his most satisfying and challenging. The University recognized his work with an honorary doctorate. In 1970 Mortlock, in partnership with others, applied his interest in planning and the need for increasing density to the drafting of
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Although he enjoyed a national reputation, Mortlock's passion for sensitive environmental relationships in urban design and practice was also recognised by his local community. He was a pioneer of what would become known as the Bushcare movement. In 1997 his efforts to preserve and regenerate
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who had begun clearing the bush land fronting Long Bay. The Mortlocks managed to convince the Council to stop this destruction, and over the next four decades they cared for the public land near their home – tirelessly cutting the
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on 14 October 1921. His father was an engineer at the local steel works, and died when Mortlock was still young. His mother moved the family to live with relatives in
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and balloon vine that grew in the wake of the clearing. Eventually the Council came to embrace Mortlock's attitude to the preservation of the bush land.
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Mortlock graduated with first class honours in 1950, winning the University Medal and a travelling scholarship. This allowed him to work and study in
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Watching the local boat builders there fostered Mortlock's interest in design and construction. He built several boats while still at school.
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home were commemorated with the renaming of the Vernon Street Reserve, ‘Mortlock Reserve’ – an honour rarely accorded to a living person.
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Mortlock was awarded the Alfred Bossom Medal in London (1951); New South Wales's prestigious
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Bryce (2nd from right) and Alan Payne (3rd from right) building the 12-foot skiff, Thunder.
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By that time Mortlock had been living locally for 40 years. He moved to Vernon Street,
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After Ken Woolley joined them in 1964, Ancher and Mortlock set up offices in Ridge St,
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networks were set up and Bryce himself became a local volunteer coordinator.
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President of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter)
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Recipients of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal
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Heritage Register for RAIA Canberra HQ designed by Bryce Mortlock
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in 1968. It was a position that entailed regular trips from his
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