Sydney International Tennis Centre. Image: BVN
His writing includes being contributing editor to the Oxford Companion to Architecture, author of Changing Hospital design in Australia in ‘Changing Hospital Architecture’ by Sunand Prasad (Past RIBA President), as well as numerous articles and papers.
He was involved in the planning of three Olympics, and has also designed some notable Olympic buildings including both the Sydney and Beijing Tennis stadiums.
BVN national director James Grose commented: “He was an internationally recognised thinker in the design of hospitals and health buildings not only with the many hospitals he designed, but also with papers and presentations he gave to notable research organisations like the Nuffield Association in England.’
Grose noted that Lawrence’s historical knowledge of Sydney’s architecture was encyclopaedic and that he used this to great effect in his teaching as well as in projects like the redevelopment of the overseas passenger terminal at Circular Quay and the making of the Cook and Philip Park complex.
Lawrence Nield Image: SMH
