Phillip Gibbs, Australian architect (born 1940) graduated in architecture, Melbourne University in 1966 and architecture and planning, McGill University in 1971. In 1980 he was a third prize winner of the Shinkenchiku (Japan Architect) Residential Design Competition for work on the Australian timber house and was appointed Visiting Scholar in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 1984/85. He is the author of 'Building a Malay House', Oxford University Press 1987 and the Japanese edition, Gakugei Shuppan-sha Co Ltd 1993. He practiced architecture in Perth and Fremantle, 1989-2005 and worked with the Corringie Aboriginal Community, Leonora and the Swan Valley Nyungah Community.