Derek
Wrigley
Derek
F. Wrigley, OAM, FRAIA, ARIBA, LFDIA, DA(Manchester)
Architect, industrial designer, solar consultant
Currently
: retired, solar utilisation researcher experimenting with low-energy
and low resource retrofitting of existing houses. Committee member,
Australia & New Zealand Solar Energy Society.
Author:
How To Make Your Home Sustainable.
Initiator
and Convenor of the Phoenix Design Group to advise on rebuilding
sustainably after the Canberra bushfire.
Previously
: Invited to join Fred Ward at the Design Unit of the ANU(1957).
Became ANU University Architect, responsible for initiation and
implementation of Total Integrated Design policy. (1962 –
1977), involving the design integration of ANU’s architecture,
siteplanning, interior and furniture design, graphics, landscape
architecture
Founder
of the New Millwrights collective (1978), a group of like minded
professionals who were concerned about the need for better design
of buildings to utilise natural energies
Designer
/ builder / owner of six experimental solar passive houses (1950
– 1990) in Sydney and Canberra
Co-founder
of the Industrial Design Council of Australia (1956) and councillor
for 30 years, trying to improve the standard of design in Australia’s
manufactured goods
Founder
of the NSW branch of the Society of Designers for Industry (1953),
which eventually led to being a co-founder of the Industrial Design
Institute of Australia (1956), trying to raise the status of design
professionals in the community. Awarded Life Fellowship ~ 1980 (
Now known as the Design Institute Australia )
Founder
of the ACT Chapter of the Industrial Design Institute of Australia
(now DIA) ~1958
Founder
of Technical Aid to the Disabled (ACT) (1979), voluntary body which
designs and makes one-off and batch produced units to assist people
with disabilities. Design Coordinator 1979 - 1991
Lecturer
in Architecture at NSW University of Technology. Established first
course in Building Science in Auatralia (1948 – 1956).
Studied
architecture and town planning at Manchester College of Art &
Designand at Manchester University (1940 - 1946). Emigrated to Australia
in 1947
Derek has his own website on sustainable
house design
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