Considered long overdue, a bid to award Glenn Murcutt with RIBA's prestigious Royal Gold Medal Award has garnered the support of a group of leading architects. The petition, which has been signed by almost 90 professionals, has esteemed colleagues such as Richard Rogers and Piers Taylor going to bat for the 81-year old Australian architect.

Murcutt, who won the Pritzker Prize in 2002, is considered a prime candidate for the Institute's lifetime achievement award. Working since the early 70s, Murcutt is deeply respected in the profession for eschewing the typical starchitect path, instead running a one-man practice and favoring modest projects to flamboyant buildings. 

His most notable works tend to be his small, single-story residences, almost all exclusively in Australia—such as the Magney House, a long, rectilinear plan with a curved roof in Bingie Bingie.

When, in 2009, Murcutt was honored with the AIA's lifetime achievement award, the similarly named Gold Medal, Robert A.M Stern commented: "it shows you that a lifetime of small buildings may have as great an impact as the architects who build monuments to their clients and monuments to themselves." Adding that, "coming after the hyperinflation of the so-called spectacle buildings, this is a wonderful shower of cool air."

Nominations for the 2019 medal remain open until Friday, June 29th. Last year, the award was given to the modernist architect Neave Brown, known for his pioneering social housing projects.