Harry Turbott
{{Short description|New Zealand architect and landscape architect}}
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| name=Harry Turbott
| birth_name = Harold Arthur Turbott
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| death_date= {{Death date and age|2016|03|04|1930|12|16|df=yes}}
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| parents = Harold Turbott (father)
| spouse = Gwyneth Nan Manchester (died 1978)
| alma_mater = Auckland University College
Harvard University
| occupation = Architect, landscape architect
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| significant_buildings = Becroft house (1962–64)
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| awards = NZIA 25-year award (1994)
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Harold Arthur Turbott (16 December 1930 – 4 March 2016) was a New Zealand architect and landscape architect. He was the first New Zealander to gain a university degree in landscape architecture.
Early life and education
Turbott was born on 16 December 1930, the son of doctor Harold Bertram Turbott and Eveline Lilian Turbott (née Arthur). His first job was as an office boy for the Auckland architectural practice, Gummer and Ford, and he subsequently studied architecture at Auckland University College,{{cite web |url=http://nzila.co.nz/news-items-roll/news-item-list/harry-turbott,-1930-2016.aspx |title=Harry Turbott, 1930–2016 |date= |website= |publisher=New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects |accessdate=3 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407123604/http://nzila.co.nz/news-items-roll/news-item-list/harry-turbott,-1930-2016.aspx |archive-date=7 April 2016 |url-status=dead }} graduating in 1954.{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university23.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: T |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=3 April 2016}} He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and went to Harvard University, where he became the first New Zealander to complete a degree in landscape architecture—a Master of Landscape Architecture supervised by Hideo Sasaki. He then spent 16 months working for Dan Kiley on projects including the Independence Mall in Philadelphia, before returning to New Zealand in 1960.
Career
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Turbott practised as an architect and landscape architect, often combining the two disciplines in his projects. As an architect, Turbott is best known for the Becroft house (1962–64) in Takapuna, which he designed with Peter Middleton and won a New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) bronze award in 1966 and an NZIA 25-year award in 1994,{{cite web |url=http://www.architecture-archive.auckland.ac.nz/docs/block-digital/2008-10-Block-Digital-DoCoMoMo-Map.pdf |title=A map of places published in Julia Gatley (ed.) "Long Live the Modern" |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=3 April 2016}} and the Arataki Visitor Centre, opened in 1994, in the Waitākere Ranges.{{cite news | url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/77999957/obituary-landscape-architect-harry-turbott-mourned-by-karekare | title=Obituary: landscape architect Harry Turbott mourned by Karekare | date=21 March 2016 | work=Western Leader | accessdate=3 April 2016 | first=Rose | last=Rees-Owen}}
Turbott was associated with environmentalists Bill Ballantine and Roger Grace, and was a pioneer in the establishment of national coastal and marine reserves in New Zealand. He was in the vanguard of New Zealand landscape architects, introducing the discipline into projects such as motorways, waterfronts, parks and residential developments, including the Gisborne city and foreshore (1966),{{cite news | url=http://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN157_19670712/t1-body-d66.html | title=Turbott plan inactivity | date=12 July 1967 | work=Gisborne Photo News | accessdate=3 April 2016 | page=66}} the Christchurch motorway,{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6975144 |title=Landscape report on the Christchurch motorway |year=1968 |website= |publisher= |accessdate=3 April 2016}} and the management plan for Maungawhau / Mount Eden Domain.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/152043829 |title=Draft management plan for Maungawhau (Mount Eden Domain) |year=1983 |website= |publisher= |accessdate=3 April 2016}}
He also taught at the School of Architecture and Town Planning at the University of Auckland, and was involved in the establishment of the landscape architecture course at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. In 1983–1984, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1989 to 1993 he supervised the restoration of the Para O Tane Palace in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.{{cite web |url=http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/local/item/57404-architect-leading-light-in-palace-restoration |title=Architect leading light in palace restoration |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=30 March 2016 |accessdate=22 September 2020}}
Death
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Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Category:New Zealand architects
Category:New Zealand landscape architects
Category:Academic staff of the University of Auckland