National Council, comprising elected members representing each Chapter, is the Institute’s ultimate policy-making body. It also acts as an advisory body reporting to the Board of Directors.
National President
Tanner Architects
Tasmania
National President Elect
GHDWoodhead
ACT
Immediate Past President
The Mill: Architecture + Design
ACT
International Chapter Chair
NSW Chapter President
SJB Architects
ACT Chapter President
CK Architecture
NT Chapter President
Rossi Architects
Queensland Chapter President
degenhartSHEDD
SA Chapter President
Echelon Studio
Victorian Chapter President
Atelier Wagner
WA Chapter President
Sandy Anghie Architecture
Tasmanian Chapter President
City of Hobart
EmAGN President
Architecture AND
NSW
SONA President
Student
Victoria
Nationally Elected Councillor
Breathe Architecture
Victoria
Nationally Elected Councillor
And Architecture
Queensland
Nationally Elected Councillor
O’Neill Architecture
Queensland
Nationally Elected Councillor
Catherine Baudet Architect
Queensland
Nationally Elected Councillor
Jane Williams Architects
Victoria
Nationally Elected Councillor
WOWOWA architecture
Victoria
National Council as at June 2023.
*Denotes National Councillors also on the Board of Directors.
| Year | President |
|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Shannon Battisson |
| 2021-22 | Tony Giannone |
| 2020-21 | Alice Hampson |
| 2019-20 | Prof Helen Lochhead |
| 2018-19 | Clare Cousins |
| 2017–18 | Richard Kirk |
| 2016–17 | Prof Ken Maher |
| 2015–16 | Jon Clements |
| 2014–15 | David Karotkin |
| 2013–14 | Paul Berkemeier |
| 2012–13 | Shelley Penn |
| 2011–12 | Brian Zulaikha |
| 2010–11 | Karl Fender |
| 2009–10 | Melinda Dodson |
| 2008–09 | Howard Tanner |
| 2007–08 | Alec Tzannes |
| 2006–07 | Carey Lyon |
| 2005–06 | Bob Nation |
| 2004–05 | Warren Merton Kerr |
| 2003–04 | David John Parken |
| 2001–03 | Graham Jahn |
| 2000–01 | Edward Robert Haysom |
| 1999–00 | Nigel Warren Shaw |
| 1998–99 | Graham Humphries |
| 1997–98 | Eric Graham Butt |
| 1996–97 | John Stanley Castles |
| 1995–96 | Peter Robertson Gargett |
| 1994–95 | Virginia Louise Cox |
| 1993–94 | James Taylor |
| 1992–93 | Robert Cheesman |
| 1991–92 | Jamieson Sayer Allom |
| 1990–91 | Robert Lindsay Caulfield |
| 1989–90 | Ronald Barrie Bodycoat |
| 1988–89 | Dudley Keith Wilde |
| 1986–87 | Robert Darwin Hall |
| 1985–86 | Graham Alan Hulme |
| 1984–85 | Roland David Jackson |
| 1983–84 | Richard Melville Young |
| 1982–83 | David Alan Nutter |
| 1981–82 | Richard Norman Johnson |
| 1980–81 | Michael Laurence Peck |
| Year | President |
|---|---|
| 1979–80 | Alexander Ian Ferrier |
| 1978–79 | Geoffrey Lawrence Lumsdaine |
| 1977–78 | John Davidson |
| 1976–77 | Eustace Gresley Cohen |
| 1975–76 | Blair Mansfield Wilson |
| 1974–75 | Harold Bryce Mortlock |
| 1973–74 | Robert Peter McIntyre |
| 1972–73 | Henry Jardine Parkinson |
| 1971–72 | Kenneth William Shugg |
| 1970–71 | Ronald Andrew Gilling |
| 1969–70 | John David Fisher |
| 1968–69 | Jack Hobbs McConnell |
| 1967–68 | Acheson Best Overend |
| 1966–67 | Mervyn Henry Parry |
| 1965–66 | Gavin Walkley |
| 1964–65 | Raymond Berg |
| 1963–64 | Max Ernest Collard |
| 1962–63 | James Campbell Irwin |
| 1961–62 | Henry Ingham Ashworth |
| 1960–61 | Thomas Brenan Gargett |
| 1959–60 | Kenneth Charles Duncan |
| 1957–59 | Wilfried Thomas Haslam |
| 1956–57 | William Purves Godfrey |
| 1954–56 | Edward James Weller |
| 1952–54 | Robert Snowden Demaine |
| 1950–52 | Cobden Parkes |
| 1948–50 | Jack Denyer Cheesman |
| 1946–48 | William Rae Laurie |
| 1944–46 | Roy Sharrington Smith |
| 1942–44 | John Francis Scarborough |
| 1940–42 | William Ronald Richardson |
| 1939–40 | Otto Abrecht Yuncken |
| 1938–39 | Frederick Bruce Lucas |
| 1937–38 | Louis Laybourne-Smith |
| 1936–37 | James Nangle |
| 1935–36 | Guy St John Makin |
| 1934–35 | Arthur William Anderson |
| 1933–34 | Charles Edward Serpell |
| 1932–33 | Lange Leopold Powell |
| 1931–32 | Philip Rupert Claridge |
| 1930–31 | William Arthur Blackett |
| 1929–30 | Alfred Samuel Hook |
Harnessing the expertise of members from around the country, our national committees provide advice on a range of issues relating to practice and the built environment, as well as review and develop Institute policies.
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
