Peter Corrigan

An exhibition of Corrigan's life work was held at RMIT Gallery in 2013 entitled Cities of Hope. It traced the "creative focus of this remarkable Australian architect, bringing to life many of his designs over four decades including architectural models and drawings by Edmond and Corrigan; set and costume designs for theatre; artworks, records and notations from his personal collection and key works selected from public collections which have enriched his practice". This material has since been donated to the RMIT Design Archives and RMIT Library respectively.

The RMIT Building 8 built in 1993, is one of Corrigan's most recognised buildings, and "combines the bold vision and whimsical style that is Corrigan’s trademark". It is located in Swanston street Melbourne at the University of RMIT. The building creates characteristics of its own along with its structure, several colours and situated materials. Built on a budget with tough constraints, the designing of building 8 needed to accommodate buildings below and next door as it is currently sitting on top of John Andrew’s unfinished union building. Following the construction of Building 8 it was found necessary to include a "new lift and service core" to allow access to the upper floors. In addition to this "the deep floor plate" was also maximised allowing further developed for rooms located on the upper floors. Detail within the interior such as "balustrades and hand railing" have been positioned in a way giving the building a unique yet chaotic sentiment. Noticeable along the streetscape of Swanston street, Building 8's roof gives the building part of its individuality. The positioning of the multiple roof structures, form and materiality make this building unique. The building structure also provides examples of many different uses of materials for different areas, some of which include "coloured stone facades, steel pipe strut supports and a polychrome and polygon brick" shown within parts of the building, all of which affect RMIT's atmosphere.

He obtained his honorary Doctor of Architecture in 1989, for his contribution to Australian Architectural theory and design. Further Adjunct Professor in 1989, at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

In 1983–84 Corrigan was a guest professor at Graduate School of Design Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1991 he was a guest lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. In the same year he was promoted at the Third Belgrade Triennial of World Architecture exhibition in Galerija Kulturmog Centra Beograda "39 prominent architects of the world". Likewise the work of Edmond and Corrigan has been exhibited internationally in 1991, 1999 and 2002 at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Corrigan was educated at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and then completed his degree in architecture, in 1966 at Melbourne University. He further pursued his studies at Yale University in 1969 under Robert Venturi, completing a master's degree in Environmental Design. Having worked for Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolf, César Pelli and Kevin Roche in New Haven, he returned to Australia in 1974 where he formed his practice, Edmond and Corrigan, a partnership with his wife, Maggie Edmond, initiated in 1975. As a part of Edmond and Corrigan, they won 35 RAIA state awards and four Natural Architectural Design awards.

Peter Russell Corrigan AM (6 May 1941 – 1 December 2016) was an Australian architect and was involved in the completion of works in stage and set design.

The Readings Book Shop is a heritage listed post office founded in 1910, and renovated to be a bookshop and completed in 2005. It is located on 253 Bay St, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 3207. It's a mezzanine in one hand and a freestanding form in the middle of the room on the other. With the sharp angles and its flat surfaces, it filled the bookshop. Surrounding the room are bookshelves up to the first floor. This is an open space without walls.