Peter Stutchbury (born 1954, Sydney) is an Australian architect. He graduated as an architect in 1978 at the University of Newcastle. One of his early buildings was a church in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, completed in 1983. He established a joint practice with Phoebe Pape in 1991.
Since 1995 the firm has won 45 Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, including 13 National Awards. In 2003 PSA became the first practice to win both the nation’s major architectural awards, an honor it received again in 2005. In 1999 it won the overall National Metal Industries Award of Excellence and in 2000 and 2008 The Australian Timber Award. In 2008 the firm also won the International Living Steel Award in Russia.
Peter Stutchbury received the University of Newcastle Convocation Medal in 2004 for his contributions to the profession of architecture. He has been a member of over 10 international design juries. Starting in 1999 he has been a professor at Newcastle University. In 2004 he was visiting Professor of the University of Arizona, and in 2007 at University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2008 he held the Luis Barragan Chair at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, and in 2010 he was a guest teacher at Ghost Studio in Canada. Between 2010 and 2011 he taught throughout South America (coordinating the 2010 Columbian and 2011 Chilean Master Class), in Ireland, and Taiwan. For his teaching in Mexico he was awarded the Diploma Catedra Luis Barragan.
Stutchbury is a founding director of the Architecture Foundation Australia and a founding member of the Australian Architecture Association and a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.
