Vale Geoffrey Pie AM 28 March 1938 - 31 December 2018

摘要

Few Queensland architects have risked their livelihood by opposing the government. Geoffrey Pie was an exception, bravely taking a stand over the threatened and subsequent demolition of Brisbane's Bellevue Hotel. But above all, he was one of Queensland's leading architects, maintaining his practice for fifty years. The son of prominent businessman and politician Bruce Pie and graphic artist Jean Wright, Hill decided at an early age to become an architect, drawing inspiration from Ravenscraig (1942), the family's house at Aspley, designed by Brisbane architect Mervyn Rylance. While boarding at Toowoomba Prep and the Southport School, he spent holidays at the family's house at Southport, also designed by Rylance in 1937, where he developed a full understanding of beachfront living. While enrolled in the six-year part-time Diploma of Architecture course at the Central Technical College, his lecturers included C. W. T. Fulton and Athol Bretnall. At the University of Queensland, he was taught by Austrian emigre Karl Langer and recently arrived English architects Maurice Hurst and John Morton. During the course, Pie was employed by H. S. Macdonald (designer of his father's factory at Lutwyche), Fulton and Colin Architects and, from 1960, Robin Gibson. At Gibson's recently established office, he joined Gabriel Poole to work on houses and shop fitouts that attracted national attention. This trio were to dominate late twentieth-century architecture in Queensland.