Dr Peter Armstrong
Title: Dr
Name: Peter Armstrong
Position: Senior Lecturer; Coordinator, M. Arch Urban Architecture Studio
Location: Room 327, Wilkinson Building (G04), 148 City Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: +61 2 9351 3857
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Peter Armstrong is an architect and academic and teaches in the Faculty of Architecture at Sydney University.
He gained his master’s degree at Waseda University under Yoshisaka Takamasa and worked in the office of Kikutake Kiyonori before returning to Australia where he has practiced as an architect for 30 years. His Ph.D dealt with the formative period of the Japanese castle town between the years 1586 and 1650. He has taught architectural design and the history of architecture and urban design in East Asia at Sydney University since 1974.
Current research includes studies in the origins of Japanese urban development with reference to the 7th century Korean kingdoms and relationship between the first Japanese capitals on the continental model.
In 2002 Peter Armstrong Architecture received the Sulman and Francis Greenway awards for the design of the Parade Theatre, Stage 2 of the National Institute of Dramatic Art. He continues to practise in the design and construction of schools, clinics and related projects in South-East Asia as part of the Japanese Government’s Grass Roots Aid Scheme.
In 2006 he was decorated by the Foreign Minister of Japan and was made an Honorary Research Fellow of the Korean Government’s National Kyongju Research Institute of Cultural Heritage.
Research Areas
Architecture
Occasion of the Kikutake School Exhibition at the Architectural Institute of Japan, commemorating Kikutake's 75th Birthday in 2003