Australian architect Cameron Lyon passes away
Cameron Lyon, a director of influential Australian firm Lyons and a pioneer of "people-friendly courthouses", has died.
Lyon passed away on 13 January 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. He leaves behind a legacy of projects that include the Perth County Court, the Parramatta Trial Court in Sydney and the Broadmeadows Children's Court.
The dean and staff of the University of Melbourne architecture faculty, where Lyon studied, were among the first to pay tribute to the architect.
"It is with great sadness that the Faculty of ABP says farewell to a dear friend," they said. "As a graduate of the faculty, Cameron was recognised for his contribution to the design of people-friendly courthouses in Australia.
Cameron Lyon was described by the University of Melbourne architecture faculty as "a great friend" Lyon came from a family of architects, with an architectural lineage going back several generations.
His father was the architect Ronald "Tiger" Lyon, while his mother Marietta was an interior designer and architectural renderer. His maternal grandfather was the architect Leslie M Perrott senior, who founded Perrott Lyon Mathieson and designed the Alexander Hotel ? now the Park Plaza ? in 1929. Two of his uncles, Leslie M Perrott Junior and Eric Lyon, were also architects, as are his brothers Corbett and Carey and Hamish Lyon.
Lyon set up his first architecture studio in 1981, shortly after graduating. Established in partnership with ...
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