A Sydney architect best known for his site responsive and culturally specific residential architecture in New South Wales was last night awarded the Australian Institute of Architects' Gold Medal for Architecture. Peter Stutchbury, whose practice is in Newport, has previously won 47 Institute awards including two AIA Robin Boyd Awards as well as the 2014 House of the Year Award, and has also won approximately twenty national and international design competitions.

The jury said Stutchbury has mastered the art of creating architecture that speaks of the place it inhabits – buildings that are environmentally sustainable, culturally specific and locally embedded.

Stutchury has designed award-winning homes in rural Russia and coastal Japan, including a cliff-top home in Japan for fashion designer Issey Miyake. He has also designed public buildings such as the Sydney Olympic Park Archery Centre and Birabahn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Centre.

Below is the full list of winners from last night's awards:

Gold Medal – Peter Stutchbury, Peter Stutchbury Architecture (NSW)

National Emerging Architect Prize – Nic Brunsdon, Post- and Spacemarket (WA) National President’s Prize – Ian Close and Sue Harris, Architecture Media (Vic) 

Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture – Barnaby Hartford-Davis, RMIT (Vic) 

BlueScope Glenn Murcutt Student Prize – Matthew Hyland, University of Tasmania (Qld) – Jin Chen Lee, University of New South Wales

Leadership in Sustainability Prize – Professor Emeritus Allan Rodger LFRAIA (Vic) 

William J. Mitchell International Committee Prize – Louise Cox AO LFRAIA (NSW)

Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize – Professor Paul Memmott LFRAIA

University of Queensland (Qld) Dulux Study Tour Prize – Bonnie Herring, Breathe Architecture (Vic); Casey Bryant, Andrew Burns Architect (NSW); John Ellway, James Russell Architect (Qld); Monique Woodward, WOWOWA (Vic); Nic Brunsdon, Post- and Spacemarket (WA).

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