Peter Muller

The complete works of Australian architect Peter Muller (b Adelaide, 3 July 1927) in 240 pages from 1952 until his retirement in 2007...including 40 Black & White photographs by Max Dupain, Australia's most famous architectural photographer.
"After graduating in1948 at the University of Adelaide (B.E.) he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (1950) and a Tuition Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating (M.Arch.) in 1951, he began practice in Sydney (1952). An architect genuinely devoted to the ideal of environmental harmony, Peter Muller's houses, of which the Audette House (1952), Castlecrag, Sydney, the Richardson house (1956), Palm Beach, Sydney, and his own house at Whale Beach (1954), Sydney, were the most accomplished and shaped domestic architecture and a generation of Australian tastes in a powerful, if not always consciously recognized way. He is an individual who sought new and innovative solutions to problems which arose from his particular response to a site or client. The result was a genuine regional architecture produced by a designer who was not in any way striving for a conscious local style.
Over the past three decades, Muller has applied these concerns predominantly to hotel resort designs in Goa, Kerala, Luxor, Malaysia, Philippines, Vanuatu and Indonesia where he has played an adaptive and interpretive role in researching the naturally organic traditional forms of building within these countries....notably the Bali Oberoi Hotel (1974), the Amandari Hotel (1990) near Ubud, Bali, and the Lombok Oberoi (1997)... each demonstrating his continuing love for fine craftsmanship and concern for the natural beauty of sites."