Corbett Lyon

Corbett Marshall Lyon (born 13 August 1955)[1] is an Australian architect, art patron and academic who lives and works in Melbourne. He is a founding director of Melbourne architectural firm Lyons. With partners Carey Lyon, Cameron Lyon, Neil Appleton and Adrian Stanic he has designed many award-winning institutional and public buildings in Australia.

Lyon is one of Australia's leading collectors and patrons of Australian contemporary art[2] and since 1990 has developed the Lyon Collection with his wife Yueji. In 2003–2008 he designed and built the Lyon Housemuseum, a hybrid residence and art museum, which displays the Lyon Collection and makes it available for public viewing.[3]

Lyon is a Professorial Fellow and Visiting Professor in Design at the University of Melbourne where he teaches and researches in the Master of Architecture program.[4]

Family and education

Lyon was born in Melbourne to Ronald 'Tiger' Lyon (architect)[5] and Marietta (née Perrott) Lyon (interior designer).

He entered an extended family of architects which included his maternal grandfather, Leslie M Perrott Snr and two uncles, Leslie M Perrott Jnr and Eric Lyon. In Lyon's own generation all three of his brothers, Cameron, Carey and Hamish are practicing architects.

Lyon attended Brighton Grammar School from 1961 and graduated Dux in 1973.

He studied architecture at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 1979. Lyon won an ITT International Fellowship to study in the US where he undertook a one-year Master of Architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied under architects Steven Izenour and Aldo van Eyck, futurist Buckminster Fuller and urban planner Edmund Bacon.

During his studies he worked part-time in offices of architectural firm Venturi Rauch Scott Brown and following his graduation in 1980 worked full-time in the firm's newly established office in New York.

Architecture

In 1981 Lyon returned to Australia and established architectural firm Lyon + Lyon with brother Cameron. The firm designed institutional, commercial and government buildings including the Butterfly House at the Melbourne Zoological Gardens and a commemorative arch in Melbourne celebrating Victoria's 1984 sesquicentenary. The brothers' work was exhibited at the XIIe Biennale de Paris in 1982.

In 1996 Lyon established architectural practice Lyons Architects with brother Carey Lyon. The firm currently has five directors which include Cameron Lyon, Neil Appleton and Adrian Stanic. The firm designs large scale institutional, commercial and cultural projects and has won many national and international design awards.

In 2000 Lyons represented Australia as the country's sole representative at the 7th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.[6]

Notable works

Teaching

Lyon has taught at the University of Melbourne as a visiting critic and lecturer since 1984. He is currently a Professorial Fellow at the University and a Visiting Professor in Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.[13]

He lectures widely on architectural design and on design practice and innovation and has given lectures and seminars at the Otis School of Design in Los Angeles, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and the Architectural League of New York.

Contemporary art

Lyon is one of Australia's leading collectors and patrons of contemporary art. Since 1990 he has developed the Lyon Collection with his wife Yueji. The Collection comprises over 300 artworks including paintings, sculpture, installation works, photography and video art. More than 50 Australian artists are currently represented in the Collection.

Between 2003 and 2005 he designed the Lyon Housemuseum,[14] a hybrid residence and art museum which opened to the public in 2009. The Housemuseum offers pre-booked public tours and school visits on designated days each year.[15] The Housemuseum sponsors an annual series of lectures and talks on art, architecture, art history and museology. The annual Lyon Housemuseum Lecture is published in the form of a small book.

In 2012 Lyon and his wife established the Lyon Foundation to provide a permanent future home for the Lyon Collection.

Notes

  1. ↑ Goad, Philip (2012). The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, p.419. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. ISBN 978-0-521-88857-8.
  2. ↑ Hynes, Victoria. 'Corbett & Yueji Lyon: Hybrid Hopes', Art Collector Magazine, Issue 54, October - December, 2010, pages. 182-186. Gadfly Media, Sydney
  3. ↑ Zakout, Adele. 'Lyon Housemuseum'. OpenBuildings. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  4. ↑ 'Appointed Honorary Staff, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning'. The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 10 March 2013
  5. ↑ Clerehan, Neil. 'Ronald Lyon 1920-2006', Architecture Australia, Volume. 95 No. 4, July 2006. Architecture Media, Melbourne.
  6. ↑ Jackson, Davina (2000). Lyon's City of Fiction: Australian Pavilion/7th International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice Biennale, 2000. Global Arts Projects, Melbourne. ISBN 0646394444.
  7. ↑ Frearson, Amy. 'RMIT Swanston Academic Building by Lyons'. Dezeen Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Harding, Laura. 'John Curtin School of Medical Research', Architecture Australia, September/October 2006. Architecture Media, Melbourne.
  9. ↑ van Schaik, Leon et al (2012). More, the architecture of Lyons 1996-2011, pp 374-385. Thames & Hudson, Melbourne. ISBN 9780500500286.
  10. ↑ Walker, Paul & Morton, Callum. 'Lyon Housemuseum', Architecture Australia, Volume. 99 No. 1, January 2010. Architecture Media, Melbourne.
  11. ↑ Krzykowski, Matylda. 'Headley Bull Centre for World Politics by Lyons Architects'. Dezeen Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  12. ↑ Ostwald, Michael. 'Seduction, subversion and predation'. Architectural Design, Volume. 73 No. 2, 2003, p. 75-80. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, London.
  13. ↑ Ragas, Louisa. 'Corbett Lyon leads MArch Studio: Mutations, Hybrids and New Species'. Atrium Magazine, Issue 16, May 2011, p. 16.
  14. ↑ http://www.lyonhousemuseum.com.au/
  15. ↑ http://www.lyonhousemuseum.com.au/visiting-the-housemuseum/

References


Gestalten (pub), The Sky's the Limit - Applying Radical Architecture. Berlin, Germany: Gestalten, 2012
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Goad, P & Willis, J (Eds), Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Thames & Hudson (Pub), more - the work of Lyons, 1996 – 2011. Melbourne, Australia: Thames & Hudson Australia, 2012
Banham, Stephen, Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed through Typography: Thames & Hudson Australia, 2011
Van Schaik, Leon, Meaning in Space. Melbourne, Australia: Lyon Housemuseum, 2011
Shanglin (Pub), Architecture Highlights 3. Beijing, China: Shanglin A & C Limited, 2010
Pell, B, The Articulate Surface- Ornament and Technology in Contemporary Architecture. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2010
Townsend, C, ‘Cultural Space’. In Monument Magazine No.89, February/March 2009
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Van Schaik, Leon, Design City Melbourne. Chichester, England: Wiley-Academy, 2006
Ruby, I & A, ‘Beware, Objects in Suburbia May Be Closer Than They Appear’. In Architectural Design, Volume 74 No4, July/August 2004
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