Peter Bartlett (architect)

Peter John Bartlett (7 January 1929 – 21 December 2019) was a New Zealand architect and professor of architectural design.

[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][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] 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.