Barry Beauchamp Patten was an Australia

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n architect

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 and Olympic

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 alpine skier

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He was born in McKinnon, Victoria

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Educated at Caulfield Grammar School

Caulfield Grammar School

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, he studied architecture first at Melbourne Technical College

RMIT University

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 before completing his degree at the University of Melbourne

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 in 1951. In 1952 he competed for Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics

1952 Winter Olympics

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 in Oslo

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 as a skier.

Patten joined the architecture firm of Yuncken Freeman Brothers Griffiths & Simpson, and in 1957 submitted a design for the Sidney Myer Music Bowl

Sidney Myer Music Bowl

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 in Melbourne

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. His design was chosen for the Bowl, and he worked as the project architect. Patten designed three buildings in Victoria that are now on the Victorian Heritage Register

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: the Myer Music Bowl, BHP House, and the Victoria State Offices.