| Peter Bartlett | |
| Birth Name: | Peter John Bartlett |
| Birth Date: | 7 January 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Children: | 6 |
| Occupation: | Architect |
| Alma Mater: | University of Auckland |
| Thesis Title: | Structured evaluation of attitudes to dwelling environments: people’s subjective assessments of preference satisfaction and meaning as indicators of architectural design performance |
| Thesis Url: | http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6016 |
| Thesis Year: | 1978 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Richard Toy |
| Workplaces: | University of Auckland |
Peter John Bartlett (7 January 1929 – 21 December 2019) was a New Zealand architect and professor of architectural design.
Born in Auckland on 7 January 1929, Bartlett was the son of Florence Mary Bartlett (née Cushman) and John Maddocks Bartlett.[1] He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, before studying architecture at Auckland University College and completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1957.[1] He later undertook doctoral studies at Auckland, supervised by Richard Toy, and submitted his PhD thesis, titled Structured evaluation of attitudes to dwelling environments: people’s subjective assessments of preference satisfaction and meaning as indicators of architectural design performance in 1978.[2]
in 1953, Bartlett married Margaret Ann Lawlor, and the couple went on to have six children.[1]
Bartlett was awarded a New Zealand government cultural fund bursary to study in Paris in 1953 and 1954, and spent the postgraduate year of his architectural studies in France.[1] Between 1954 and 1957, he worked in Paris as a project architect on multi-storey housing projects, before returning to New Zealand and going into private practice.[1]
In 1958, he won first prize in the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Winstone House Competition, and in 1968 he was awarded an NZIA bronze medal for the Newcombe house in Parnell; the building received an NZIA Auckland enduring architecture award in 2013.[1] [3] [4] Bartlett designed the Centennial Theatre Centre at his old school, Auckland Grammar, which won an NZIA Auckland region medal in 1974, and an NZIA gold medal in 1975.[1]
Bartlett was elected as a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 1976, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts the following year.[1]
In 1961, Bartlett was one of a number of architects, including Harry Turbott and Bill Wilson, employed as a sessional staff member in the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland.[3] In 1964, he was appointed as a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Auckland, to teach architectural history and theory, and he was promoted to professor of architectural design in 1977.[1] [3] When he retired in 1993, Bartlett was conferred the title of professor emeritus.[5]
Bartlett died in the Auckland suburb of Devonport, Auckland on 21 December 2019.[6]