Glenn Murcutt's Sketches

The Marika-Alderton House

Yirrkala Community, Eastern Amheim Land, Northern Territory, Australia

Murcutt says, "A building should be able to open up and say, 'I am alive and looking after my people,' or instead, 'I'm closed now, and I'm looking after my people as well.' This to me is the real issue, buildings should respond."

"They should open and close and modify and re-modify, and blinds should turn and open and close, open a little bit without complication. That is a part of architecture for me; all this makes a building live."