Peter Newell (1916–2010) was an Australian architect, who worked in the modernist tradition in Queensland and became an architectural critic.
He was a member of the editorial committee of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects Students' Society journals, Smudges in 1937, along with Robin Boyd and Roy Simpson.
In 1939 he proposed that work be reestablished on developing plans for small homes and this was picked up the Royal Victorian Institute of architects (RVIA) Small Homes Service (SHS).
[8] The Newell family moved to the suburb of St Lucia in Brisbane, where the University of Queensland had relocated.
[9] Newell used his own residence as a means of reaching clients attracted to his design aesthetic.
[10][11] He designed homes in Brisbane[12] and the Gold Coast of Queensland[13] with designs that were moving away from elevated Queenslanders to ones which were constructed on a slab, integrated indoor and outdoor living and used overhanging eaves to provide for outdoor terraces.
Robin Boyd remarked that Newell introduced the Victorian tradition of painting exterior brickwork on Brisbane homes, influencing colour in homes in suburbs such as St Lucia.
[17] Five boxes of Newell's papers are held in the University of Queensland Fryer Library.
[18] Christ Church, St Lucia (1949) Winothulo, Roma - conversion to Memorial Club (1952)[19] Yindingi, 66 Channon St, Gympie (1959) 180 Harts Rd, Indooroopilly (1950s) Boyd, Robin and Newell, P. (1950).