Peter Hutchinson was awarded RSUA Honorary Membership at RSUA’s annual Architecture Night, held at the Former Good Shepherd Convent on 17 October 2025.
Peter is a Chartered Landscape Architect, chartered designer, illustrator and artist who has had a significant impact on Northern Ireland’s built and natural environment through the delivery of high-quality landscape architecture.
Peter has demonstrated his commitment to the profession through over 40 years of service as a Committee Member of the Landscape Institute of Northern Ireland and in his time as President of the Irish Landscape Institute.
From designing the first pedestrian precinct outside Belfast in 1981 with the delivery of the Bow Street Mall Pedestrianisation in Lisburn right through to the designs for the Hill of the O’Neill in Dungannon in 2012, Peter has been a champion for design excellence.
You may also recognise Peter’s wonderful sketches from RSUA’s magazine, Perspective. If you were lucky enough you may even have made it along to one of the sketching workshops Peter ran for RSUA in recent years.
Peter is a great advocate for hand drawing at concept design stage and he passed on his skills for over 20 years as a Teaching Fellow at Queen’s University School of Architecture.
RSUA President John Lavery welcomed Peter to the stage and presented him with his Honorary Membership.
