Vale Peter Corrigan

The Australian architect and stage designer is remembered as a gifted artist, a great teacher, fiercely intelligent and richly imaginative.
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Peter Corrigan’s set design for Le Grande Macabre for the Komische Oper, Berlin, 2003. Photo: John Gollings. 

Architect and designer Professor Peter Corrigan, whose works for the stage spanned from the wild years of Carlton’s Pram Factory to the mainstages of the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Malthouse Theatre, has died. He was 75.

Born in 1941 and educated at Melbourne and Yale Universities (where he first became involved with the theatre), Corrigan co-founded the architectural firm Edmond and Corrigan in partnership with his wife, Maggie Edmond, in 1975. Their work, including Building 8 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the VCA School of Drama building (in association with Castles Stephenson+ Turner), has won numerous awards, including Australian architecture’s highest honour: the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts