2017 National Conference, 4-6 May

New speaker announcement:

Vo Trong Nghia - Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Vo Trong Nghia Architects was founded in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2006, specialising in green projects, which utilise not only landscape plants, but design green façades and roofs which work as a bio-skin for buildings.

The National Architecture Conference is one of the biggest events of the Australian architecture calendar. Register now to receive priority access to the fringe program which launches in the coming weeks.

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Inaugural winner of the Paula Whitman Prize

Congratulations to Catherine Baudet, co-founder of Women in Architecture Queensland, who has been announced as the inaugural winner of the Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize, presented at the Queensland President’s Dinner last Friday.

The Jury, chaired by Immediate Past President Jon Clements, was impressed by her outstanding leadership in supporting women in the profession of architecture for over 30 years.

2017 MPavilion Announcement

2014 Venice Biennale director Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten from Rotterdam based practice OMA, have been announced as the architects for the 2017 MPavilion in Melbourne. Gianotten presented at the 2015 National Architecture on the topic of Risk in Architecture. It is available for purchase via our Continuum online CPD platform.

Photo credit: Andrew Tang
 

NSS: The Anatomy of a Leak

Water leaks remain the most frequently occurring and most expensive defect in modern buildings. Waterproofing specialist Ross Taylor will explain how leaks originate, provide insights into preventing defects and the documentation necessary to manage your practice's risk.

Sydney: 7 Mar, 9am
Melbourne & Livestream: 9 Mar, 12pm
Brisbane: 22 Mar, 9.30am

Save the Date - #Be Bold for Change Event
Brickworks, 21 March
7:15 - 9 am

The South Australian Chapters of DIA, AILA, NAWIC, PIA and the Institute invite you to join us for breakfast on Tuesday 21 March at Brickworks Studio to help drive positive change in the design and built environment industry. In recognition of International Womens Day, this event will provide the opportunity for guests to celebrate the value of design and collaboration in our changing industry. 

A panel of leaders will reflect on "What will a gender equal world look like?" and how we can all be responsible for creating a more gender inclusive industry; both in the way we work as well as in the places we plan, design, build and advocate for. 

More details to follow. To find out more email.

Academic Practice - Flipped Forum
100 Flinders St, 6 March
6-8 pm

Join the SA Chapter for a practice-led 'flipped' discussion on the potential for practice to lead academic research. To discuss their perspective will be:

• Kåre Krokene (Snøhetta) – Working in overseas practice discussing how research is used to inform practice overseas
• John Held (Russell & Yelland) – Use of research in practice
• Jenna Holder (GHD Woodhead) – Recent Graduate – experience since leaving academia and now working in practice
• Anthony Coupe (Mulloway Studio) -Experience as a practitioner and now returning to study.

Pizza and Product Presentation
100 Flinders St,1 March
6-8 pm

Featuring Boral Masonry and ScreenAway blind and screen systems.

Register now to come along to this informal event providing the perfect atmosphere to experience new products and network with other architects.

Emerging Architect Prize

The Emerging Architect Prize recognises an individual emerging architect or emerging architectural collaboration’s contribution to architectural practice, education, design excellence and community involvement, which advances the profession’s role within the public arena. Entrants need to be nominated by a member of the Australian Institute of Architects.

The SA Chapter is now accepting nominations for the Emerging Architect Prize until Monday 10 April. 

Policy and Advocacy Update

With the Institute having identified advocacy as a strategic pillar for the foreseeable future, a policy review is now underway to see which of our existing policies we retain and which are to be updated.

The review will include broad consultation with members to identify the most important issues and what needs to be done to ensure our message to governments and the public is clear.

New contract available

Announcing the launch of the Institute’s latest contract, the Architect-Specialist Consultant Agreement 2017 (ASCA2017). ASCA2017 is intended for use where the architect directly engages and pays a specialist consultant on a specific project.It can be used to complement the Institute’s current Client Architect Agreement. The contract document is published and sold alongside a User Guide, Reference Copy, editable schedules and template guide letters. Members and subscribers with Acumen access will also be able to download the supporting documents from Acumen.

ASCA2017 and supporting documents are available now through our contracts website.
 

Brian Claridge House for Sale

The Stonyfell home of mid-century modern architect Philip George Brian Claridge 'Brian' (1924 - 1979) is on the market.  In 1953 Claridge wrote a particularly provocative letter to the editor of the Advertiser challenging the established order. It concerned unfavourable criticism of Australian architecture by American critic Dr John Ely Burchard, who visited South Australia in 1952. Claridge concurred with Burchard and declared that ‘Architecturally Adelaide is dead’ (‘Architecture in Adelaide’ 2 January 1953: 4). Shortly after Burchard’s tour the South Australian Institute of Architects commissioned Claridge to write four of six influential articles for the Advertiser. The first, titled ‘Good Architecture Reflects Spirit of our Times’, reads like a personal manifesto (‘Good Architecture’ 21 Feb 1953: 8). In it Claridge articulates the concerns and ideas he addressed in the design of this home completed in 1952 and which underpinned his subsequent practice. Source: http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/

SONA: Calling Student Volunteers

The Institute is looking for active SONA member volunteers to assist with the National Architecture Conference: Praxis from Thursday 4 May – Saturday 6 May 2017 in Sydney.

Enter now for the 2017 Houses Awards

Excellence is rewarded in nine categories, with the best house receiving the premier award of Australian House of the Year. There are categories for new houses, alterations and additions, apartments and units, heritage, outdoor and sustainability projects as well as an award that recognises emerging architecture practice.

Entry is open to any residential project located within Australia, completed between 1 Jan 2016 and 28 Feb 2017. Entries close 5 pm AEDT on 17 Mar.

Submit your entry here.
 

Dulux® Colour Awards® 2017: Entries Open

Rules were made to be broken, so in its 31st year, the Dulux Colour Awards is celebrating bravery in design. Architects, designers, specifiers and students are invited to demonstrate their inventive, unique and forward-thinking colour applications in built environments. Entries close 17 March 2017.

Enter now at dulux.com.au/colourawards.

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