Bud Brannigan has been a Brisbane based architect since 1993, operating quietly on the edge of the city, with four other staff. His projects have been published widely. In 1994, he was awarded the RAIA National Robin Boyd Award for the Fifth Avenue house. His work is regionally derived, but blended with an interest in contemporary forms and materials. In all projects, site and structure play an important role in the design outcome, and the balance between these two has become a constant, recurring theme. Place provides a lead to planning, and structure and material allow a means to articulate form and composition.
As a student, he worked with Heisinger and Schauer, a small practice in Germany, which also operated as an art gallery, creating the perfect environment in which to learn about architecture. A number of recent art museum projects, as well as current houses for an art collector, and two artists, have re-established this desired connection.
Recently, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, to travel to the USA in early 2008, to research a number of small regional museums in southwestern desert states.