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Roy Grounds was born on 18 December, 1905 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian architect. Discover Roy Grounds's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 18 December 1905
Birthday 18 December
Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date of death 1981
Died Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1905

Sir Roy Burman Grounds (18 December 1905 – 2 March 1981) was an Australian architect.

Born on 18 December 1905 in Melbourne, Grounds was educated at several schools, including Scotch College Melbourne and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School.

1920

In the mid 1920s, he began his articles with the architectural firm of Blackett, Forster and Craig, where Geoffrey Mewton was doing the same.

1928

By 1928 they were both studying at the University of Melbourne Architectural Atelier, where they won first prize in an Institute of Architects Exhibition for a house costing under £1000.

They both also won scholarships to further their studies later that year.

After graduating in 1928 they travelled to London together with another student, Oscar Bayne, where they all shared digs.

After working in London for a while, Grounds then worked in the United States for two years.

It was there that his son, Marr Grounds was born.

1930

His early work included buildings influenced by the Moderne movement of the 1930s, and his later buildings of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the National Gallery of Victoria and the adjacent Victorian Arts Centre, cemented his legacy as a leader in Australian architecture.

Artist Marr Grounds was his son.

1932

On his return to Australia in 1932, Grounds shared an office with Mewton, who had already set up a solo practice the previous year, where they worked on projects separately, but published under "Mewton & Grounds".

1933

One of their first projects that is attributed to Grounds was radically modern for Melbourne - located in the hills of Upper Beaconsfield, Wildfell, built in 1933, was a long flat roofed rectilinear composition of white painted brick, with red and cream brick details and corner windows.

1934

This was followed in 1934 by the Milky Way Cafe in Little Collins Street, a venture of the United Milk Producers Society to encourage milk consumption, with modern tubular steel furniture and flush recessed lighting panels.

While Mewton produced many designs in a Modernism combining the brick volumes of Willem Dudok with European Bauhaus starkness, Grounds' distinctive work was influenced by the simple, rough modernism of US West Coast architect William Wurster.

The most notable expression of this influence are a series of houses including Portland Lodge, Lyncroft and the Ramsay House, all on the Mornington Peninsula, the Fairbairn House in Toorak and the house for the Chateau Tahbilk winery.

Grounds also designed in a more Streamline Moderne style, with his own family holiday house on the peninsula nicknamed "The Ship" due to its long horizontal asbestos-cement sheet flat forms topped by a pipe railing and a glass walled lookout, and the similarly styled Rosanove House in nearby Frankston.

1937

In about 1937, Grounds ended the partnership with Mewton, spending time in England again until 1939.

1939

Grounds returned and established a solo practice between 1939 and 1942, and designed a series of unusually modern flat developments in the Toorak area which further established his reputation as a modernist: Moonbria, with its balustrades topped with Swedish blue tiles and Quamby 1939-41, both situated in Toorak, are buildings which consist of studio, one or two-bedroom apartments.

1942

During World War II he served in the Royal Australian Air Force (1942-45) as a Flight Lieutenant, performing works and camouflage duties.

1951

After the war, Grounds retired for a few years, returning in 1951 as a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture at Melbourne University.

1953

In 1953, he resumed his architectural practice and produced a series of houses, including his own, based on pure geometric shapes.

The Leyser House was triangular, the Henty House was circular, and his own house was square, with a central circular courtyard.

This theme was repeated in later projects, including the circular Round House in Hobart, and the square Master's Lodge at Ormond College.

When Grounds, Frederick Romberg and Robin Boyd formed their partnership in 1953 all were well established in Victoria.

Each brought substantial work to the practice, which they usually worked on separately, and the firm became very successful.

Grounds' first large commission was for the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra.

The construction of its reinforced concrete dome was a considerable technical achievement.

1959

Opened in 1959, it won the Meritorious Architecture Award of the Canberra Area Committee of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) and the Sulman Award for Architectural Merit.

The Academy building also led to other work in Canberra, initially for the firm and later Grounds himself.

Grounds opened a Canberra office in the Forrest Townhouses (1959), which he designed and partly financed.

In 1959 the firm was awarded the commission to design the National Gallery of Victoria and Arts Centre, with Grounds named in the contract as the architect in charge.

1962

When Boyd and Romberg were mildly critical of the preliminary geometric designs that Grounds showed them, relations between the partners became strained, and in 1962 Grounds left the partnership, taking the commission with him and setting up his own company with Oscar Bayne.

Under a building committee chaired by the philanthropist Ken Myer, Grounds devoted the next twenty years of his life to the completion of the Arts Centre.

His longest-serving architectural associates throughout this period were Alan Nelson, Fritz Suendermann, Lou Gerhardt and Allan Stillman.

While the gallery was brought in on time and budget, the complicated Yarra River site for the Concert Hall and Theatre Complex resulted in building delays and criticism.

1970

Unlike the fate that befell Jørn Utzon on the Sydney Opera House project, Grounds managed to hold on to his commission from the Victorian Government despite tumult within his company in the late 1970s.

Grounds showed Queen Elizabeth II the massive excavations shortly before his death.

Much of the theatres' interior designs were completed by John Truscott after Grounds' death.

One of his last designs was Hobart's iconic 18-story octagonal tower and Wrest Point Hotel Casino complex.

1981

Grounds died on 2 March 1981.