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'''Gabriel Poole''' (1934-2020) was an internationally recognised, award-winning [[Australian]] [[architect]], known for innovative, light-weight designs that are site and climate responsive. His ‘Tent House’ in Eumundi won the [[Australian Institute of Architects|Royal Australian Institute of Architects]] (RAIA) Queensland Innovation Award, the Robin Dods Award and the RAIA National Robin Boyd Award in 1991. In 1998 Poole was awarded the nation's highest architectural award, RAIA Gold Medal, for his lifetime contribution to Australian architecture.<ref></ref> He was also an advocate of housing affordability, pioneering low-cost, pre-fabricated designs.
== Life and career ==
Poole was born in [[Ipswich, Queensland|Ipswich]] in 1934 to Gabriel Poole (Snr), a doctor, and was educated at [[Toowoomba Anglican School|Toowoomba Preparatory School]] and [[The Southport School]], where he befriended fellow Queensland architectural figure, Geoffrey Pie.<ref></ref>
Initially keen to study medicine, Poole was persuaded by friends [[Robin Gibson (architect)|Robin Gibson]] and [[John Dalton (architect)|John Dalton]] (both of whom would also become renowned architects) to pursue his natural aptitude for architecture, and so in 1957 Poole commenced work as a draftsman with Gibson in [[Brisbane]]. During this time he started architectural studies at the Central Technical College (now [[Queensland University of Technology]]) and completed the design of his first house in Sherwood. He left Brisbane in 1963 to travel to London where he worked for [[H. T. Cadbury-Brown|H.T Cadbury Brown]], and [[Powell & Moya]].<ref></ref>
On his return to Brisbane in 1965, Poole continued his studies at the Central Technical College and the [[University of Queensland]], graduating in 1966 with a Diploma in Architecture. He worked again briefly with Gibson, and then [[Conrad Gargett]], one of Queensland's oldest architectural firms, before establishing his own practice.
In 1968 he moved his practice to the Sunshine Coast, and started designing what was to become his signature style of increasingly lightweight and climate-responsive houses. During this time Poole won RAIA awards for Dobie House in Buderim (1972), and Schubert House (1972) and Munro House (1975), both in Mooloolaba.
In 1978 he founded Atelier-Two-Design in Noosa in partnership with John Mainwaring, a fellow award-winning Queensland architect noted for his sub-tropical designs. Atelier-Two-Design undertook a number of notable projects that contributed to the emerging identity of [[Noosa Heads, Queensland|Noosa]] as a premier resort destination,<ref></ref> including the development of 'The Hastings’ complex in 1984 which involved a flat-pack pre-fabrication system from which 25 small two-bed townhouses were built in Noosa's Hastings Street; as of 2020, the project still stands.
It was during this period that Poole also developed his iconic ‘Quadropod’ design, a modular steel structure consisting of any number of towers each of four steel pods anchored into the ground and braced together.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
After leaving Atelier-Two-Design in 1985, Poole worked first by himself and then in partnership with his wife, the interior designer and artist Elizabeth, with whom he created the Gabriel & Elizabeth Poole Designing Company (GEPDC). The seminal project from this time was their Eumundi ‘Tent House’, which won the RAIA Queensland Innovation Award, the [[Robin Dods]] Award and the RAIA National [[Robin Boyd (architect)|Robin Boyd]] award in 1990.<ref> State Library Of Queensland|url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/vale-gabriel-poole-architect|access-date=2020-12-15|website=www.slq.qld.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> The ‘Tent House’ was said to “dramatically redefine what a house could be and caught the public’s imagination in appealing to a sense of freedom through the use of lightweight construction and by reducing dependence on fixed enclosure.”<ref></ref> The Finnish architect [[Elissa Aalto]] described it as being “like a butterfly in the forest.”<ref></ref>
A household name by this time, the Pooles continued to design innovative houses, in Sydney for a brief period in the early-mid 1990s, and then across all the areas of the Sunshine Coast, including the acclaimed [[Lake Weyba]] House (near Noosa) in 1996. Of his design aesthetic, Poole said: “I am involved in the romance of design — practical and functional but with the potential for an emotional connection. A good building system can help you into a lovely environment and create a space where the soul can play.”<ref> Sunshine Coast Open House|url=https://www.sunshinecoastopenhouse.com.au/building/22-lake-weyba-house|access-date=2020-12-15|website=www.sunshinecoastopenhouse.com.au}}</ref>
Since the 1980s, Poole has also pioneereed the design of affordable, architect-designed kit homes, producing flatpack prefabrication systems and self-funding an exhibition project home, the Capricorn 151, in [[Coolum Beach, Queensland|Coolum]] on the Sunshine Coast. The Capricorn featured a central breezeway with transparent garage roller doors at either end, combining naturally cooling breezes with the option of lock-up security, said to be a spin off from his years in the bush as a jackeroo.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== References ==
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== Life and career ==
Poole was born in [[Ipswich, Queensland|Ipswich]] in 1934 to Gabriel Poole (Snr), a doctor, and was educated at [[Toowoomba Anglican School|Toowoomba Preparatory School]] and [[The Southport School]], where he befriended fellow Queensland architectural figure, Geoffrey Pie.<ref></ref>
Initially keen to study medicine, Poole was persuaded by friends [[Robin Gibson (architect)|Robin Gibson]] and [[John Dalton (architect)|John Dalton]] (both of whom would also become renowned architects) to pursue his natural aptitude for architecture, and so in 1957 Poole commenced work as a draftsman with Gibson in [[Brisbane]]. During this time he started architectural studies at the Central Technical College (now [[Queensland University of Technology]]) and completed the design of his first house in Sherwood. He left Brisbane in 1963 to travel to London where he worked for [[H. T. Cadbury-Brown|H.T Cadbury Brown]], and [[Powell & Moya]].<ref></ref>
On his return to Brisbane in 1965, Poole continued his studies at the Central Technical College and the [[University of Queensland]], graduating in 1966 with a Diploma in Architecture. He worked again briefly with Gibson, and then [[Conrad Gargett]], one of Queensland's oldest architectural firms, before establishing his own practice.
In 1968 he moved his practice to the Sunshine Coast, and started designing what was to become his signature style of increasingly lightweight and climate-responsive houses. During this time Poole won RAIA awards for Dobie House in Buderim (1972), and Schubert House (1972) and Munro House (1975), both in Mooloolaba.
In 1978 he founded Atelier-Two-Design in Noosa in partnership with John Mainwaring, a fellow award-winning Queensland architect noted for his sub-tropical designs. Atelier-Two-Design undertook a number of notable projects that contributed to the emerging identity of [[Noosa Heads, Queensland|Noosa]] as a premier resort destination,<ref></ref> including the development of 'The Hastings’ complex in 1984 which involved a flat-pack pre-fabrication system from which 25 small two-bed townhouses were built in Noosa's Hastings Street; as of 2020, the project still stands.
It was during this period that Poole also developed his iconic ‘Quadropod’ design, a modular steel structure consisting of any number of towers each of four steel pods anchored into the ground and braced together.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
After leaving Atelier-Two-Design in 1985, Poole worked first by himself and then in partnership with his wife, the interior designer and artist Elizabeth, with whom he created the Gabriel & Elizabeth Poole Designing Company (GEPDC). The seminal project from this time was their Eumundi ‘Tent House’, which won the RAIA Queensland Innovation Award, the [[Robin Dods]] Award and the RAIA National [[Robin Boyd (architect)|Robin Boyd]] award in 1990.<ref> State Library Of Queensland|url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/vale-gabriel-poole-architect|access-date=2020-12-15|website=www.slq.qld.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> The ‘Tent House’ was said to “dramatically redefine what a house could be and caught the public’s imagination in appealing to a sense of freedom through the use of lightweight construction and by reducing dependence on fixed enclosure.”<ref></ref> The Finnish architect [[Elissa Aalto]] described it as being “like a butterfly in the forest.”<ref></ref>
A household name by this time, the Pooles continued to design innovative houses, in Sydney for a brief period in the early-mid 1990s, and then across all the areas of the Sunshine Coast, including the acclaimed [[Lake Weyba]] House (near Noosa) in 1996. Of his design aesthetic, Poole said: “I am involved in the romance of design — practical and functional but with the potential for an emotional connection. A good building system can help you into a lovely environment and create a space where the soul can play.”<ref> Sunshine Coast Open House|url=https://www.sunshinecoastopenhouse.com.au/building/22-lake-weyba-house|access-date=2020-12-15|website=www.sunshinecoastopenhouse.com.au}}</ref>
Since the 1980s, Poole has also pioneereed the design of affordable, architect-designed kit homes, producing flatpack prefabrication systems and self-funding an exhibition project home, the Capricorn 151, in [[Coolum Beach, Queensland|Coolum]] on the Sunshine Coast. The Capricorn featured a central breezeway with transparent garage roller doors at either end, combining naturally cooling breezes with the option of lock-up security, said to be a spin off from his years in the bush as a jackeroo.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== References ==
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