ACT

Name of state group: faction*
Name of representative: Will Gardner

Faction* will be holding a round table discussion in March to discuss issues, events and competitions for the upcoming year. If you are keen to be a part of the ideas process and have your say, or just generally socialise with peers amongst the profession please contact the committee and register your interest for details: faction@raia.com.au.

Architect registration is a key issue for faction*, and coinciding with the timing of the Practice of Architecture Lecture Series (PALS), faction* will be holding a Regi(fru)stration event series to give the “inside” perspective on registration and taking the examination process. Regi(fru)stration is proudly sponsored by Kingspan Insulated Panels. Dates to be announced shortly.

NSW

Name of state group: DARCH
Name of representative: Jacqueline Connor

We had our second DARCH Small Bar Tour on Tuesday 1 March. We were hosted by the owners of Grandma's Bar, Grasshopper and Stitch, all new to the Sydney CBD, and causing a bit of a social and architectural shift. The next event will be in May and suggestions are welcome.

Later this month the inaugural National Emerging Architect Prize will be announced, and our 2010 NSW winner Tamara Donnellan is a finalist. Following on from that, we will be launching the 2011 NSW Emerging Architect Prize - further details will be available soon. We encourage all entries - it's a great way to recognise an architect who has made a contribution to the profession at an early stage in their career.

The long awaited DARCH website is soon to be launched with news on our events, initiatives and meetings: www.darch.com.au. Contact us at darch@raia.com.au for information or to join our mailing list. We have meetings every second Tuesday morning.

TAS

Name of state group: YAT (Young Architects Tasmania)
Name of representative: Hugh Maguire

We wish to congratulate Karen Davis on her election as the new Tasmanian Chapter President, and to also congratulate a number of young architects who have been elected to chapter council in Tasmania. We hope that you enjoy your term and can be assured of the support of your peers in YAT.

The long awaited Museum of Old and New Art opened with great fanfare in January. Both the architecture and the art collection have stimulated discussion amongst Hobart residents and visitors and we are truly grateful to have such an outstanding private art museum on our shores. Visit www.mona.net.au for more information.

The next regi(fru)stration event will be held in Hobart on May 26 and will be proudly supported by Kingspan Insulated Panels. More details to follow.

WA

Name of state group: MERGE | Emerging Architects
Name of representative: Dean Adams

Gold Medal Event
Following the success of last year’s Gold Medal Breakfast with Lindsay & Kerry Claire, MERGE will be holding another Gold Medal event on Friday 25 March, the day after the Gold Medalist will be announced at the Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards held in Perth. Places for this casual chat with the 2011 Gold Medalist will be limited to 20. Get in early and avoid missing out. Book via merge@raia.com.au.

Regi(fru)stration 1
The first of the bi-annual registration information evenings was held on Wednesday 9 February, with 30 hopeful candidates attending. This evening, proudly sponsored by Kingspan Insulated Panels, was a great opportunity for registration candidates to hear about the registration process, as well as find out some good tips and tricks for the exams themselves. This hopefully takes some of the frustration out of registration.

The next evening will be held on Monday 4 July. To book early for this event, contact merge@raia.com.au or the WA Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects wa@raia.com.au.

Events for 2011
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MERGE committee 2011
If you would like to be a part of MERGE for 2011, then please contact merge@raia.com.au. You will be helping to make Perth a more vibrant place for young architects and graduates, whilst also contributing to the discourse on architecture for the state.

Websites/Blogs we like
For local architectural news and opinions, check out:
http://pertharchitecture.wordpress.com/

Other

http://www.tropolism.com/
http://unhoused.livejournal.com/
http://weburbanist.com/
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.worldchanging.com/

2011 Gold Medal for Architecture to be announced in Perth at the Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards

The winner of Australia’s most coveted annual architectural prize – the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 Gold Medal for Architecture – will be announced in Perth at the Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards (AAAA) on Thursday 24 March.

The theme for the evening is 'a touch of gold' and the event will be held in the newly opened State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, designed by Gold Medallist Kerry Hill of Kerry Hill Architects. Tickets are just $45 and include a cocktail function before and after the presentation ceremony.

Book tickets

In addition to the Gold Medal, eight major awards will be presented by the Australian Institute of Architects to Australians making significant contributions to the nation’s architecture profession and the country’s built environment:

• The National Leadership in Sustainability prize
• The National President's Prize
• The BlueScope Steel Glenn Murcutt Student Prize
• The Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize
• The Emerging Architect Prize
• The Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture
• The Dulux Study Tour winners

The AAAA announcement was introduced last year to celebrate the achievements of Australian architects, not just their world class architectural projects. The Gold Medal has been awarded annually since 1961, with previous recipients including Kerry Hill, Glenn Murcutt and Harry Seidler.

Details are:

Juhani Pallasmaa, Fumihiko Maki & Francois Roche head 2011 National Architecture Conference speaker line-up

Natural Artifice
2011 National Architecture Conference
14 – 16 April 2011, Melbourne

Natural Artifice brings together speakers from five continents and three generations, each of whom has a potent vision for how we might locate nature in an artificial world.
While humankind is as reliant as ever on nature, our experience of what is “natural” is mediated by technology. From birth, this artifice is intrinsic in all encounters with nature. There are amazing results now evident in a world where designers are apprehending the powerful relationship between that which is natural and that which is artificial in a contemporary and meaningful way for our time.

REGISTER TODAY
Registrations are open. BOOK NOW

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM
Visit architecture.com.au/naturalartifice to download the program of events, and find out more about the international speakers, creative directors and networking opportunities.

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS

Juhani Pallasmaa - Juhani Pallasmaa Architects (Helsinki, Finland)
Fumihiko Maki - Maki and Associates (Tokyo, Japan)
Francois Roche - R&Sie(n) (Paris, France)
Luis Mansilla - Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)
Lisa Iwamoto - IwamotoScott Architecture(San Francisco, USA)
Manuel Aires Mateus - AIRES MATEUS (Lisbon, Portugal)
Teresa Moller - Teresa Moller & Asociados (Vitacura, Chile)
Luis Callejas & Sebastian Mejia - Paisajes Emergentes (Medellin, Colombia)

CPD POINTS
Earn all your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points for the year by attending Natural Artifice. Complete a series of assessment activities to gain 10 CPD points. More information is available on the conference website.

MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León, Spain Mansilla + Tuñón (Photo by Luis Asín)	Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium, Nakatsu, Oita, Japan Maki and Associates (Photo by Toshiharu Kitajima)

CONTACT
For any enquiries regarding the conference, please contact the Institute via email naturalartifice@raia.com.au or phone 02 6121 2000.

New President Appointed to the Australian Institute of Architects WA Chapter

The Australian Institute of Architects has announced architect David Karotkin will take the helm of its WA Chapter from 1 March 2011.

Graduating from Curtin University in 1989 with First Class Honours, David has a wealth of experience having lived and worked as an architect in Israel, England and of course Australia. He joined Sandover Pinder in 1995 and is now Managing Director. Sandover Pinder is a mid-sized practice that undertakes a wide range of civic, commercial and institutional projects throughout Australia, plus Asia and India. David has been a Chapter Councillor for eight years and is excited to take on this new role as President.

“It’s an exciting time to be an architect in WA, so it's an honour, and a challenge, to represent our profession and to make sure our opinions on design and planning issues are being heard and valued.

Promoting the value of excellent design is David’s passion, and under his guidance the Chapter will continue to support the role of the Government Architect and work to consolidate the position and its status within Government and the community.

The Chapter is also responsible for engagement with all levels of Government, property groups and contractor groups to ensure the interests of its members are being met.

David is married to Jessica Karotkin and has three children aged 10, 14 and 15.

The Architectural Review (AR) : Introduction to the Emerging Architecture Awards
architectural-review.com/home/ar-emerging-architecture/introduction-to-the-emerging-architecture-awards/8608490.article

24 November 2010 | By Catherine Slessor
This issue celebrates the winners of the annual AR Awards for Emerging Architecture. Edging into the wider architectural firmament, the designers shown in these pages are the stars of tomorrow.

Since 1999, the AR Awards have nurtured the talents of an emerging generation of architects from all over the world and are now firmly on the radar of those striving to make their mark. Only built work is eligible for submission as our view has always been that architecture is not confined to paper or computerised theorising, but is a compact with society to build well and to build responsibly.

From the heady era of the Noughties, conditions have changed for architects and their clients, and the going is tougher than it used to be. Yet this does not seem to have diminished the wellspring of creativity running through the Awards. This year, just over 300 submissions were received from 48 countries, and winning schemes are spread over a remarkable range of locales, from Canada to Indonesia.

The jury also reflected a diverse international outlook. Chaired by AR Editor Catherine Slessor, it included Daniel Bonilla from Colombia, Nigel Coates from the UK, Florence Lipsky of French practice Lipsky + Rollet, Gurjit Singh Matharoo from India (who was also winner of AR House), and Jennifer Dixon of London-based firm Austin-Smith:Lord, one of two sponsors of the Awards. The other is Triflow Concepts, manufacturer of beautifully designed taps and accessories. We're grateful for their generosity which makes possible not only the Awards programme, but also an associated exhibition of winning entries and a series of lectures at the RIBA in London. Such activities help to disseminate the debate begun in these pages. The exhibition opens on 25 November and full details of the lecture series can be found in the forthcoming January issue.

The ebb and flow of the jury's discussions owed much to different experiences and world views, but all were agreed on the importance of certain key assessment criteria: connectedness to place, appropriate use of materials and technology, the cultivation of environmental and social responsibility, and some sense of architectural authenticity (as opposed to novelty), which is perhaps increasingly difficult to define in these cut-and-paste times.

The three first prize winners interpret these concerns in very different ways. Ryo Abe's austerely beautiful canopy of charred shingles on a remote Japanese island is a meditation on nature, simplicity and place. Carmody Groarke's delightful pop-up restaurant celebrates an intuitive, vagabond spirit. And NHDRO's remodelling of an existing building in Shanghai's docklands into a new boutique hotel is an intelligent paradigm for the creative reuse of historic structures, which has a wider and hopefully instructive resonance in China's current expansionist milieu.

Though the Awards are now in their 12th year, we continue to be amazed by the depth and ingenuity of the architectural thinking demonstrated in the submissions. And despite the current turbulent climate, we hope that this issue will be a powerful incentive for others to go out and do even better.

There’s an alternative future for Barangaroo, say architects

Sunday 20 February 2011

The Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter supports the principles behind an alternative scheme for Sydney’s hotly debated Barangaroo development published in mainstream media yesterday (Saturday 19 Feb).

Commenting on the new proposal revealed yesterday, the Institute’s NSW President Brian Zulaikha today said: “We think there are good opportunities to achieve an effective and accessible public domain in the Headland and Barangaroo Central precincts at a reasonable cost.”

Mr Zulaikha added: “The whole site is public land. Public benefit should be paramount, particularly full access to the harbour foreshore. Commercial development has its place, but should be secondary to the public benefit provided by the site.”

‘We also fully support the proposal to keep the cruise ship terminal at Barangaroo. A facility of this kind brings life and vitality to the area, while retaining its historic ‘working harbour’ function.

“We believe the decision to relocate the terminal to White Bay has not been properly considered and should be reversed. We have been critical of the lack of transparency surrounding the planning decisions made for this important site to date.

“It is important that future decision-making for Barangaroo is conducted in an open and transparent manner in view of the substantial public benefit to be derived from the site.”

Australian Institute of Architects | Media Contact
Mr Murray Brown, NSW Policy & CPD Manager
murray.brown@raia.com.au
Ms Trish Croaker , National Media/PR Advisor
trish.croaker@raia.com.au
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