Lifetime Achievement Award for
Peter Freeman OAM

Moruya heritage architect Peter Freeman has received the Award for Lifetime Achievement at the ACT National Trust Heritage Awards 2025. .

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises a demonstrated commitment and achievements over a period of two or more decades in the conservation of built, cultural, natural or First Nations heritage by an individual in the ACT.

Peter Freeman OAM is an architect who has dedicated more than four decades to the conservation, documentation and celebration of Australia’s architectural heritage through his practice as an architect, conservation architect, historian and author.

Peter, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects was the inaugural ACT Heritage Advisor and has been a Chair of the ACT Heritage Council. He has authored and edited a number of books devoted to Canberra’s architectural heritage including ‘The Early Canberra House’ (1995) and more recently Thoroughly Modern: Moir + Sutherland Architects (2021). Peter’s work in the ACT was prolific in the years between 1988 and 2011.

He was involved with Ainslie School, ACT Government Housing Stock, Ginninderra Schoolhouse, Gudgenby homestead, Kingston Powerhouse Precinct and St Johns to name a few.

Peter has also authored many books on Australia’s heritage and vernacular buildings, including The Woolshed, The Homestead, The Wall Papered Manse and more recently The St Clair Villa: 175 years of Goulburn History.

Peter has worked across the country on heritage conservation projects, including the Robin Boyd-design Manning Clark House here in the ACT, the Hobart Town Hall and the Theatre Royal in Hobart, the Toganmain Woolshed restoration and the Presbyterian Manse in Moruya, the NSW south coast town where he and his wife Tanny now live.

The Awards was presented last week at a ceremony on Canberra.