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, headquarters = L1/41 Exhibition St, Melbourne
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NT Chapter
ACT Chapter
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International Union of Architects
The International Union of Architects ( French: ''Union internationale des Architectes''; UIA) is the only international non-governmental organization that represents the world's architects, now estimated to number some 3.2 million in all.
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Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ...
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Architecture.com.au
The Australian Institute of Architects (officially as the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, abbreviated as RAIA) is the
professional body for architects in Australia. The
post-nominals of FRAIA (Fellow) and RAIA (Members and organisation abbreviation) continue to be used. The Institute supports 14,000 members across Australia, including 550 Australian members who are based in architectural roles across 40 countries outside Australia. SONA (Student Organised Network for Architecture) is the national student-membership body of the Australian Institute of Architects.
History
The Australian Institute of Architects was established on 6 September 1929 and continued under this name until 18 August 1930, when the "Royal" title was granted, and it became the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
A number of states formed professional societies for architects, including the
Queensland Institute of Architects
The Queensland Institute of Architects was a professional society for architects in Queensland, Australia. It operated from 1888 until 1930, when it became a chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.
History
The Queensland Institute of ...
, and the
West Australian Institute of Architects.
The South Australian Institute of Architects (SAIA) was founded in 1886, and in 1904
Walter Hervey Bagot designed its seal.
The Australian Institute was formed in 1929, when state architectural institutes combined to form a unified national association, although full federation of the state-based institutes did not come about immediately, with some states maintaining their independence. The South Australian Institute of Architects only joined up in July 1962, becoming the "South Australian Chapter".
[ The Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (RVIA) was the last to join, in 1968.
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Name change
In August 2008,[ following an informal poll of members in 2001, the National Council resolved to continue trading as the "Australian Institute of Architects", while retaining "Royal Australian Institute of Architects" as the legal name. The postnominals of "FRAIA" (Fellow) and "RAIA" (Members and organisation abbreviation) continue to be used with the legal name abbreviated.
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Purpose, functions, affiliations
As a professional body representing architects, the institute is represented on many national and state industry and government bodies, and is affiliated with the International Union of Architects
The International Union of Architects ( French: ''Union internationale des Architectes''; UIA) is the only international non-governmental organization that represents the world's architects, now estimated to number some 3.2 million in all.
Abou ...
(UIA).
A chapter is maintained in each state and territory,
National awards and prizes
Gold Medal
The AIA Gold Medal is the highest award of the Australian Institute of Architects awarded annually since 1960.
Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize
This award honours architect and gender equity advocate Paula Whitman.
* Parlour: Gender, Equity, Architecture (2020)
*Helen Lochhead
Professor Helen Lochhead is an Australian architect, urbanist and Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney. She is also the 2019 President of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Biography
Helen Lochhead graduated from the U ...
(2019)
* Melonie Bayl-Smith (2018)
* Catherine Baudet (2017)
National Architecture Awards
The National Architecture Awards have been presented since 1981 and include:
* The Sir Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen, (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Cowen was born in Melbourne, and attended ...
Award for Public Architecture
* The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture – Houses
* The Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
* The Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture
* The Lachlan Macquarie
Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (; gd, Lachann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, an ...
Award for Heritage
* The Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture
* The Walter Burley Griffin
Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect. He is known for designing Canberra, Australia's capital city and the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton. He has been cr ...
Award for Urban Design
* The Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture
* The David Oppenheim Award for Sustainable Architecture
* The Jørn Utzon Award for International Architecture
* Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
State architecture awards and prizes
Each of the state chapters also presents awards, with notable examples including:
New South Wales
* Sir John Sulman Medal for Public Architecture
* Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design
* Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award for Commercial Architecture
* John Verge
John Verge (1782–1861) was an English architect, builder, pioneer settler in the Colony of New South Wales, who migrated to Australia and pursued his career there. Verge was one of the earliest and the most important architect of the Greek R ...
Award for Interior Architecture
* Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture
* Wilkinson Award
The Wilkinson Award is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter) and was first awarded in 1961.
The medal is presented in memory of the Australian architect Leslie Wilkinson
Leslie Wi ...
for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
* Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)
* Aaron Bolot
Aaron M. Bolot (1900–1989) was a Crimean-born architect. After migrating to Australia, Bolot contributed to and designed a number of historically significant buildings, including the Flats at Potts Point, registered with the Register of the Na ...
Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
* Robert Woodward Award for Small Project Architecture
* Greenway Award for Heritage
* Marion Mahony Griffin
Marion Mahony Griffin (; February 14, 1871 – August 10, 1961) was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licensed female architects in the world, and is considered an original member of the Prairie School. Her work in ...
Prize for female architects.
Queensland
* FDG Stanley
Francis Drummond Greville Stanley (1839—1897) was an architect in Queensland, Australia. He was the Queensland Colonial Architect. Many of his designs are now heritage-listed buildings.
Early life
Stanley was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on ...
Award for Public Architecture
* Robin Dods
Robert Smith (Robin) Dods (9 June 1868 – 23 July 1920) was a New Zealand-born Australian architect.
Personal life
Dods was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 9 June 1868. His parents were Robert Smith Dods (a wholesale grocer) and Elizabeth Gra ...
Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
* Job & Froud Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
* Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture
* Hayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture
* G.H.M. Addison
George Henry Male Addison (1857–1922) was an Australian architect and artist. Many of his buildings are now heritage-listed.
Early life
Addison was born on 23 March 1857 in Llanelly, Wales, the son of Edward James Addison (1820–1863), a Wes ...
Award for Interior Architecture
* Robin Gibson Award for Enduring Architecture
* Don Roderick Award for Heritage
* Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture
* Karl Langer
Karl Langer, Ritter von Edenberg (15 April 1819, Vienna – 8 December 1887) was an Austrian anatomist. He is known for his work in the field of topographical anatomy.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Prague, afterwards w ...
Award for Urban Design
South Australia
* Sir James Irwin Chapter President's Medal
* Jack McConnell Award for Public Architecture
* Keith Neighbour Award for Commercial Architecture
* Robert Dickson Award for Interior Architecture
* John S Chappell Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
* David Saunders Award for Heritage Architecture
* Derrick Kendrick Award for Sustainable Architecture
* Jack Cheesman Award For Enduring Architecture
Victoria
* Victorian Architecture Medal
* William Wardell
William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) was a civil engineer and architect, notable not only for his work in Australia, the country to which he emigrated in 1858, but for a successful career as a surveyor and ecclesiastical architect in En ...
Award for Public Architecture
* Public Architecture Award (Alterations and Additions)
* Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
* Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture
* John George Knight
John George Knight (1826 – 10 January 1892),Sally O'Neill,, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Melbourne University Press, 1974, pp 37-37. Retrieved 24 August 2009 was an architect and Government Resident of the Northern Territory i ...
Award for Heritage Architecture
* Harold Desbrowe-Annear
Harold Desbrowe-Annear (16 August 1865 – 22 June 1933) was an influential Australian architect who was at the forefront of the development of the Arts and Crafts movement in the country. During the 1890s he was an instructor in architecture a ...
Award for Residential Architecture Houses – New
* John and Phyllis Murphy
John and Phyllis Murphy were architects in Australia. Phyllis was also known for her work with wallpaper design and restoration.
The Murphys completed a number of conservation projects through the National Trust of Australia, National Trust (Vic ...
Award for Residential Architecture Houses – Alterations and Additions
Western Australia
* George Temple-Poole
George Thomas Temple-Poole (born George Thomas Temple, 29 May 1856 – 27 February 1934) was a British architect and public servant, primarily known for his work in Western Australia from 1885.
As Superintendent of Public Works, and then Pri ...
Award
Presidents
National presidents
National presidents:Lange Powell
Lange Leopold Powell (1886–1938) was a noted architect who designed many important buildings in Brisbane and the state of Queensland. He started practice in 1909; his major works included St Martin's War Memorial Hospital (opened 1922) and t ...
*1933–1934 Charles Edward Serpell
*1934–1935 Arthur William Anderson
*1935–1936 Guy St John Makin
*1936–1937 James Nangle
*1937–1938 Louis Laybourne Smith
*1938–1939 Frederick Bruce Lucas
*1939–1940 Otto Albrecht Yuncken
*1940–1942 William Ronald Richardson
*1942–1944 John Francis Deighton Scarborough
*1944–1946 Roy Sharrington Smith
*1946–1948 William Rae Laurie
*1948–1950 Jack Denyer Cheesman
*1950–1952 Cobden Parkes
*1952–1954 Robert Snowden Demaine
*1954–1956 Edward James Archibald Weller
*1956–1957 William Purves Race Godfrey
*1957–1959 Wilfred Thomas Haslam
*1959–1960 Kenneth Charles Duncan
Kenneth Charles Duncan (1898–1983) was born 13 April 1898. He was a modernist architect, active in Australia from before World War I until the 1970s making a long and valued contribution to architectural practice especially in Western Austral ...
*1960–1961 Thomas Brenan Femister Gargett
*1961–1962 Henry Ingham Ashworth
*1962–1963 James Campbell Irwin
*1963–1964 Max Ernest Collard
*1964–1965 Raymond Berg
*1965–1966 Gavin Walkley
*1966–1967 Mervyn Henry Parry
*1967–1968 Best Overend
Acheson Best Overend (15 October 1909 – 1977) was an Australian architect. He is best known for the Cairo Flats in Fitzroy, built 1935-6, a daringly Modernist design for Melbourne in the 1930s.
Early life
Best Overend was born in Launcesto ...
*1968–1969 Jack Hobbs McConnell
*1969–1970 John David Fisher
*1970–1971 Ronald Andrew Gilling
*1978-1979 John Davidson
*1992-1993 Robert Denyer Cheesman
*1990-1991 Robert Caulfield
*1994–1995 Louise Cox
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*1995–1996 Peter Robert Gargett
*1996–1997 John Stanley Castles
*1997–1998 Eric Graham Butt
*1998–1999 Graham Humphries
*1999–2000 Nigel Warren Shaw
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*2000–2001 Edward Robert Haysom
*2001–2003 Graham Jahn
*2003–2004 David John Parken
*2004–2005 Warren Merton Kerr
*2005–2006 Bob Nation
*2006–2007 Carey Lyon
*2007–2008 Alec Tzannes
*2008–2009 Howard Tanner
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*2009–2010 Melinda Dodson
*2010–2011 Karl Fender
*2011–2012 Brian Zulaikha
*2012–2013 Shelley Penn
Shelley Jane Penn (born 1965) is a Melbourne-based award-winning architect, educator, urbanist and built environment advocate.
Education
Penn was educated at Kilvington girls grammar and completed her architectural training at Melbourne Univ ...
*2013–2014 Paul Berkemeier
*2014–2015 David Karotkin
*2015–2016 Jon Clements
*2016–2017 Ken Maher
*2017–2018 Richard Kirk
*2018–2019 Clare Cousins
*2019–2020 Helen Lochhead
Professor Helen Lochhead is an Australian architect, urbanist and Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney. She is also the 2019 President of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Biography
Helen Lochhead graduated from the U ...
*2020–2021 Alice Hampson
*2021–2022 Tony Giannone
*2022-2023 Shannon Battisson
*2023-2024 Bill Krotiris
State and territory chapter presidents
Australian Capital Territory (established 1962)
ACT Chapter established in 1962.
*1962–1964 Malcolm Moir
*1964–1966 John Scollay
*1966–1968 Peter Harrison
*1968–1970 John Goldsmith
*1970–1972 Horrie Holt
*1972–1974 Arthur Tow
*1974–1976 Neil Renfree
*1976–1978 Tony Cooper
*1978–1980 Mervyn Willoughby-Thomas
*1980–1982 Ian Thompson
*1982–1984 Geoffrey Butterworth
*1984–1986 Barry Cameron
*1986–1988 Rick Butt
*1988–1990 Alastair Swayn
*1990–1992 Colin Stewart
*1992–1993 Peter Freeman
*1993–1994 Annabelle Pegrum
*1994–1998 Graham Humphries
*1998–2002
*2002–2006 Catherine Townsend
*2006–2008 Melinda Dodson
*2008–2010 David Flannery
*2010–2012 Sheila Hughes
*2012–2014 Tony Trobe
*2014–2016 Andrew Wilson
*2016–2018 Rob Henry
*2018–2020 Philip Leeson
*2020–2022 Shannon Battissonn
New South Wales (established 1871, NSW Chapter from 1933)
*1871–1878 George Allen Mansfield
*1878–1889 Thomas Rowe
*1889–1895 John Horbury Hunt
John Horbury Hunt (1838 – December 30, 1904) was a Canadian-born Australian architect who worked in Sydney and rural New South Wales from 1863.
Life and career
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of a builder, Hunt was trained in Bo ...
*1895–1898 Thomas Rowe
*1898–1902 John Barlow
*1902–1903 George Allen Mansfield
*1903–1905 Cyril Blacket
*1906–1908 Harry Kent
*1908–1910 Ernest Alfred Scott
*1910–1911 George Birrell Robertson
*1911–1912 John Francis Hennessy
*1912–1914 George Sydney Jones
*1914–1916 Arthur William Anderson
*1916–1919 Arthur Pritchard
*1919–1919 Charles Henry Slatyer
*1919–1920 Arthur Pritchard
*1920–1921 George Sydney Jones
*1921–1922 George Herbert Godsell
*1922–1926 Sir Charles Rosenthal
Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal, (12 February 1875 – 11 May 1954) was an Australian architect, soldier, musician and politician. He commanded units of infantry in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, and in the 19 ...
*1926–1929 Alfred Samuel Hook
*1929–1931 James Peddle
*1931–1932 Henry Budden
*1932–1933 Ernest Alfred Scott
*1933–1934 Leslie Wilkinson
*1934–1936 Arthur William Anderson
*1936–1938 Leith Cecil McCredie
*1938–1940 William Ronald Richardson
*1940–1942 Samuel George Thorp
*1942–1944 Cobden Parkes
*1944–1946 Percy James Gordon
The English surname Percy is of Norman origin, coming from Normandy to England, United Kingdom. It was from the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From there, it came int ...
*1946–1948 Frank William Turner
*1948–1950 Adrian Ashton
Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word ''adur'', meaning "sea" or "water".
The Adria was until the 8th century BC the mai ...
*1950–1952 Alan Edgecliff Stafford
*1952–1954 Eric William Andrew
*1954–1956 Geoffrey Lewis Moline
*1956–1960 Max Ernest Collard
*1960–1962 Albert Henry Alfred Hanson
*1962–1964 Cyril John Farrington
*1964–1966 Ronald Andrew Gilling
*1966–1970 Richard Norman Johnson
*1970–1972 Bryce Mortlock
Harold Bryce Mortlock , LFRAIA, (14 October 1921 – 3 July 2004) was an Australian architect and planner, alongside Sydney Ancher, Stuart Murray and Ken Woolley. His career spanned the era which saw the consolidation of modern Australian a ...
*1972–1974 Geoffrey Lumsdaine
*1974–1976 J. Fisher
*1976–1978 Eric Daniels
*1978–1980 Geoffrey Lumsdaine
*1980–1982 Martyn David Chapman
*1982–1984 Chris Johnson
*1984–1986 Kevin Rice
*1986–1988 Lawrence Nield
Professor Lawrence Nield is a retired Australian architect, who since 2012 has been head of the Heritage Council of New South Wales. He is also known for his writings on urban design. He was head of master planning for the 2000 Sydney Olympic ...
*1988–1990 Louise Cox
*1990–1992 Richard Dinham
*1992–1994 John Richardson
*1994–1996 John Bilmon
*1996–2000 David Brown
*2000–2002 Graham Jahn
*2002–2004 Caroline Pidcock
*2004–2008 Deborah Dearing
*2008–2011 Brian Zulaikha
Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world.
It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word m ...
*2011–2013 Matthew Pullinger
*2013–2015 Joe Agius
References
External links
Australian Institute of Architects Website
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