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John and Phyllis Murphy were architects in Australia. Phyllis was also known for her work with wallpaper design and restoration.〔Her publications include (1981) ''The Decorated Wall; Eighty Years of Wallpaper in Australia, 1850-1930'', Historic Houses Trust, NSW ISBN 0-949753-00-9; (1987) ''Decorating with Wallpaper'', National Trust of Australia (Victoria), ISBN 0-909710-63-5; (1996) ''Historic Wallpapers in Australia, 1850-1920.'' Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum, ISBN 0-9598066-6-0〕 The Murphys completed a number of conservation projects through the National Trust (Victoria) in the 1960s and 1970s. Their most notable design work was created during the 1950s, some examples of which are in their home city, Melbourne, including the 1956 Olympic pool. John Murphy died in 2004.〔Neil Clerehan: John Gordon Murphy Obituary. ''The Age'', 16 August 2004〕 ==Working life== John Murphy was born in 1920, son of prominent Melbourne architect Gordon Murphy.〔 Phyllis née Slater, was born in 1924. Following the completion of their studies in Architecture at the University of Melbourne in 1949, the two collaborated and set up a private practice of their own, a year before they married in 1950. After the success of the 1956 Olympic pool design, with colleagues Kevin Borland, Peter McIntyre and engineer Bill Erwin, the couple's business turned to residential commissions, but soon grew to involve the design of commercial and school buildings.〔 Of their early residential work, Phyllis Murphy has written; "we started our architectural practice when there were severe shortages of building materials, manpower and finance... Despite these restraints, the immediate post-war period was marked by optimism and resilience... The houses we designed were influenced by a... visit to Sweden where living spaces were small but the buildings had a simplicity that we found fresh and elegant."〔Doug Evans (ed) ''Architect Victoria'', p.12-13 Contributed by Phyllis Murphy. Official Journal of the Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter, Summer, 2010. ISSN 1329-1254〕 Their houses, like those of Kevin Borland and others, were all "vivid and improvisatory in structure, coloration and materials. They spoke of austerity and limited means, lingering from the depression and the 1940s, and reasserted another Melbourne tendency, making big architectural gestures with limited finances and dimensions."〔Conrad Hamann. Melbourne- Architecture and Planning. http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00083b.htm, Accessed 30 April 2010〕 Architect and friend Neil Clerehan has described their houses as modest, "but their version of contemporary design was elegant and timeless."〔 In the 1960s they became actively involved in the preservation of historic buildings, and foundation members and honorary architects for the National Trust of Australia.〔http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:23887/n12_1_027_Hanna.pdf "Australia's Early Women Architects" by Bronwyn Hanna〕 Of their conservation work, Phyllis Murphy has written; "This work is often thought to be dull and staid, but, though it may be hard to believe (), it was exciting and almost experimental in the fifties. This was a new approach for Melbourne many years after such movements gained importance in the United States and Europe."〔 Their commercial work included buildings for Fintona Girls' School, Caulfield Grammar School, commercial buildings including a television station in Shepparton, and a number of works in collaboration with other Architects. Private residential, conservation and restoration work continued in the 1960s and 70s, including Emu Bottom Homestead and the Collins Street facade of the Block Arcade.〔Julie Willis and Bronwyn Hanna (2001) ''Women Architects in Australia, 1900-1950.'' P.88-89. Royal Australian Institute of Architects, ACT. ISBN 1-86318-032-X〕 The Murphys were also active in the foundation of the Collins Street Defence Movement in the mid 1970s, with "a strategy to halt demolition of historic and low rise buildings in Melbourne's main street...It failed"〔Norman Day(1995)'' Heroic Melbourne; Architecture of the 1950s''. p.18. RMIT, Melbourne. ISBN 0-86444-523-7〕 The couple worked together until retirement in 1982.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John and Phyllis Murphy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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