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Romaldo Giurgola AO
Biography
Romaldo Giurgola AO (1920–2016), architect, was a founding partner of the firm that won the international design competition for Australia’s New Parliament House in 1980.
2 portraits in the collection
Aldo Giurgola
by Mandy Martin
Portrait story
Romaldo Giurgola talks about his portrait and the relationship between architecture and landscape.
Aldo Giurgola, 2005
Mandy Martin
Portrait, ochre, pigment and oil on canvas (triptych)
Gift of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects 2005
Study for the portrait of Aldo Giurgola, 2005
Mandy Martin
Portrait, gouache, fibre tip pen and natural pigment on colour photocopy
Gift of the artist 2005
A Life in Service
Magazine article by Mandy Martin, 2005
Artist Mandy Martin describes the creation of her portrait of Aldo Giurgola, principal architect of Australia's Parliament House.
Portrait 18
December 2005 - February 2006
Magazine
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Daddy Cool, HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, the exhibition Glossy 2, Aldo Giurgola, Fiona Wood and more.
Enrico Taglietti AO
Biography
Enrico Taglietti (1926-2019), architect, spent his early childhood in Milan, moving to Eritrea in the year leading up to World War 2.
1 portrait in the collection
Enrico Taglietti, c. 1985
Edward Richards
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Indexing, the art of
About Face article
The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.