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Pem Gerner

a truly renaissance man

  • Scholar and Educator
    • Post Architectural Qualifications
    • History of my university teaching
    • OAM for service to architectural education
  • Architecture/Design
    • Medium Scale Projects
      • Chittleborough’s Holiday House
      • DIRC
      • The King’s School Pavilion
      • CPS Tenancy
      • Salisbury Rail Bus Interchange
      • Adelaide Steamship
      • Barmera Homes
    • Very Large Projects
      • Australia Post Redfern
      • Grenfell Centre
      • Sun Alliance
      • Telecom Adelaide
    • Planning
      • Bandar Amanjaya
      • Marina Tanjung Tokong – Penang
      • Sydney Airport Rail Link
      • Liverpool Integrated City Development
    • Urban Design
      • Royal Hospital For Women
      • Liverpool Gateway
      • Redevelopment of Circular Quay
      • Acton Cottages Precinct ANU
  • Music
    • Early music career
    • Performance experience
      • Solo Piano
      • Duos – OPUS2
      • Trios
        • RPM
        • TRILOGY
        • TOFFS
        • GAIA – Le BAND
        • OLIMS
      • Quartets & Quintets
        • QUATTRO
        • JAM
        • The Blue Aces
      • Larger music groups
        • Adelaide Symphonic Wind Ensemble
        • The St Peters Concert Band
        • Max Ellis Double Clarinet Quintet
        • Eurobodalla Jazz Club (EJC and ELM)
    • Jazz history broadcasting
    • Music CV
    • Music Recordings
    • Music Publicity
  • Writing and Illustrating
    • Books and Illustrated Books
      • Architecture by Team (DEM)
      • Selection from ’80 Drawings’
      • Selection from ’90 Drawings’
    • Articles in Cityscape
      • Water Proofing Adelaide
      • Place and the Planning Regime
      • National Portrait Gallery – Canberra – A Critique
      • Instrument Makers Clusters
    • Poetry
      • Summer Evenings
      • Our Reality
      • Ideologies
      • This Land
    • Illustrations for other authors
      • Anne’s Holiday
      • Forked Lightening
      • Short Circuit
      • Amoora Trilogy
      • Liberating Limericks
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Scholar and Educator

A number of friends and family members have told Pem that he is a Renaissance Man. He has certainly never made such a claim, but is quietly chuffed that his interest in many things, and his pursuit of knowledge and skills together with his curiosity and risk–taking seem to mark him out from others.

He is concerned that many bright people do not push the boundaries and so never discover what they might have achieved. Why this so he is unsure, but maybe it is because in present day society one can find security, comfort and a degree of indulgence and so decide that this is surely sufficient for the good life.

In Pem’s terms it is entirely not so. It is immensely better to have travelled, and at full throttle, than to have arrived. Since in arriving at some preset objective, and then stopping, one does not remain stationary but then starts the backward slide.

He remains forever thankful to some special fellow travellers, that small handful, who have provided support and impetus for him to continue to achieve and move forward. 

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