Corbett Marshall Lyon (born 13 August 1955)[1] is an Australian architect, art patron and academic who lives and works in Melbourne. He is a founding director of Melbourne architectural firm Lyons. With partners Carey Lyon, Cameron Lyon (died 2018[2]), Neil Appleton, Adrian Stanic and James Wilson he has designed many award-winning institutional and public buildings in Australia.
Lyon is one of Australia's leading collectors and patrons of Australian contemporary art[3] and since 1990 has developed the Lyon Collection with his wife Yueji. In 2003–2008 he designed and built the Lyon Housemuseum, a hybrid residence and art museum, which displays the Lyon Collection and makes it available for public viewing.[4]
Lyon is a professorial fellow and visiting professor in design at the University of Melbourne where he teaches and researches in the Melbourne School of Design. In 2016 he was awarded a Doctor of Architecture (honoris causa) by the University.
Family and education
Lyon was born in Melbourne to architect Ronald ('Tiger') Lyon [5] and Marietta Perrott (interior designer).
He then entered an extended family of architects which included his maternal grandfather, Leslie M Perrott Snr and two uncles, Leslie M Perrott Jnr and Eric Lyon. Both his parents worked in his grandfather's firm, Leslie M Perrott & Associates, which became Perrott Lyon Mathieson in 1970 when his father became a partner. All three of his brothers, Cameron, Carey and Hamish, became practicing architects. In 2019 Lyon's two daughters Carlin and Jaqlin were studying architecture at the University of Melbourne, heading up the fourth generation.
During his studies he worked part-time in the Philadelphia offices of architects Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and following his graduation in 1980 worked full time in the firm's New York office.
In 2018 he completed a PhD at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Architecture
In 1981 Lyon returned to Australia and established architectural firm Lyon + Lyon with brother Cameron. The firm designed institutional, commercial and government buildings including the Butterfly House at the Melbourne Zoological Gardens and a commemorative arch in Melbourne celebrating Victoria's 1984 sesquicentenary. The brothers' work was exhibited at the XIIe Biennale de Paris in 1982.
In 1996 Lyon established architectural practice Lyons Architects with brother Carey Lyon. Cameron Lyon joined the practice in 1998 as a director and worked in the firm until his death in 2018. The firm currently has five directors which include Neil Appleton, Adrian Stanic and James Wilson. The firm designs large scale institutional, commercial and cultural projects and has won many national and international design awards.
In 2000 Lyons represented Australia as the country's sole representative at the 7th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.[6]
Kangan Institute, Automotive Centre of Excellence, Melbourne
Hedley Bull Centre, Australian National University, Canberra [11]
New School of Law at University of NSW, Sydney
Victoria University Online Training Centre, St Albans (Winner of Victorian Architecture Medal)[12]
Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Queenscliff
Teaching
Lyon has taught at the University of Melbourne as a visiting critic and lecturer since 1984. He is currently a Professorial Fellow at the University and is a Visiting Professor in Design at the Melbourne School of Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.[13]
He lectures widely on architectural design and design practice and innovation and has given lectures and seminars at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the Otis School of Design in Los Angeles, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and the Architectural League of New York.
Contemporary art
Lyon is one of Australia's leading collectors and patrons of contemporary art. Since 1990 he has developed the Lyon Collection with his wife Yueji. The collection comprises over 350 artworks, including paintings, sculpture, installation works, photography and video art. More than 50 Australian artists are currently represented in the Collection.
Between 2003 and 2005 he designed the Lyon Housemuseum,[14] a hybrid residence and art museum which opened to the public in 2009. The Housemuseum offers pre-booked public tours and school visits on designated days each year.[15] The Housemuseum sponsors an annual series of lectures and talks on art, architecture, art history and museology. The annual Lyon Housemuseum Lecture is published in the form of a small book.
In 2012 Lyon and his wife established the Lyon Foundation to provide a permanent future home for the Lyon Collection.
The Foundation has constructed a new public art museum, also design by Lyon, on a site adjacent to the Housemuseum. The new museum opened in March 2019.
Lyon is a Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria and a member of the International Council of Museums.
Notes
↑ Goad, Philip (2012). The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, p.419. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. ISBN978-0-521-88857-8.
↑ Jackson, Davina (2000). Lyon's City of Fiction: Australian Pavilion/7th International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice Biennale, 2000. Global Arts Projects, Melbourne. ISBN0646394444.
↑ Frearson, Amy. 'RMIT Swanston Academic Building by Lyons'. Dezeen Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
↑ Harding, Laura. 'John Curtin School of Medical Research', Architecture Australia, September/October 2006. Architecture Media, Melbourne.
↑ van Schaik, Leon et al (2012). More, the architecture of Lyons 1996-2011, pp 374-385. Thames & Hudson, Melbourne. ISBN9780500500286.
↑ Walker, Paul & Morton, Callum. 'Lyon Housemuseum', Architecture Australia, Volume. 99 No. 1, January 2010. Architecture Media, Melbourne.
↑ Krzykowski, Matylda. [permanent dead link] 'Headley Bull Centre for World Politics by Lyons Architects'. Dezeen Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
↑ Ostwald, Michael. 'Seduction, subversion and predation'. Architectural Design, Volume. 73 No. 2, 2003, p. 75-80. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, London.
↑ Ragas, Louisa. 'Corbett Lyon leads MArch Studio: Mutations, Hybrids and New Species'. Atrium Magazine, Issue 16, May 2011, p. 16.
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