Peter McIntyre

Peter McIntyre is an Australian architect, educator and Practice Director, Principal and Senior Partner of McIntyre Partnership Pty Ltd.. Educated at Trinity Grammar School, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Melbourne University, he founded a practice in 1950 that combined modern, high-technology materials with concern for "emotional functionalism" -the impact of the built environment on its occupants. His design for an environmentally adapted Mallee Hospital was lauded by critic Robin Boyd as the beginning of a new Australian architecture. McIntyre formed a partnership with architects John and Phyllis Murphy and Kevin Borland and with engineering consultant Bill Irwin, McIntyre designed the Melbourne Olympic Swimming pool in 1952, he was also the architect for the redevelopment of the pool to the Lexus Centre. In 1972 McIntyre formed an additional partnership with George Connor and Donald Wolbrink in 1972 and form International PlanningCollaborative He wrote the 1973 Strategy Plan for the City of Melbourne, which limited high rise development to its eastern and western shoulders.