National
Council &
Committees
Your elected Members
FACILITATING EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP THROUGH POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND PROVISION OF STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS
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.
MEMBERS OF NATIONAL COUNCIL
Prof Helen Lochhead FRAIA*
National President
Faculty of the Built Environment UNSW
Ms Clare Cousins LFRAIA*
Immediate Past President
Clare Cousins Architects
Ms Alice Hampson FRAIA*
National President Elect
Alice LTM Hampson Architect
Ms Vanessa Bird FRAIA*
Nationally Elected Councillor
Bird de la Coeur Architects
Mr Peter Hobbs FRAIA*
WA President
Peter Hobbs Architect
Mr Philip Leeson FRAIA
ACT President
Philip Leeson Architects
Ms Kathlyn Loseby FRAIA
NSW President
Crone Architects
Ms Jenny Culgan RAIA
NT President
Mode Design
Mr Paul Trotter FRAIA
Queensland President
Fulton Trotter Architects
Mr Tony Giannone FRAIA
SA President
Tectvs
Mr Shamus Mulcahy RAIA
Tasmanian President
Bence Mulcahy
Ms Amy Muir RAIA
Victorian President
Muir Architecture
Ms Samantha Cotterell RAIA
International Chapter Chair
Designsport
Thom McKenzie RAIA
EmAGN President
Winwood McKenzie
Ms Gina Engelhardt
SONA President
HASSELL
Mr Justin Hill FRAIA
Nationally Elected Councillor
Kerry Hill Architects
Mr Angelo Candalepas FRAIA
Nationally Elected Councillor
Candalepas Associates
National Council as at May 2019. *Denotes National Councillors also on the Board of Directors.
NATIONAL COMMITTEES
National Member Committees
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.
- National Education Committee
Contact: kate.moore@architecture.com.au
- National Practice Committee
Contact: belinda.strickland@architecture.com.au
- National Policy Committee
Contact: leanne.hardwicke@architecture.com.au
- National Committee for Gender Equity
Contact: daniela.crawley@architecture.com.au
- Other Committees/Panels:
Acumen Content Review Panel
Past Presidents
| Year | President |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1979–80 | Alexander Ian Ferrier |
| 1978–79 | Geoffrey Lawrence Lumsdaine |
| 1977–78 | John Davidson |
| Year | President |
|---|---|
| 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 |
NATIONAL COUNCIL CHARTER
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL CHARTER SETS OUT THE ROLE, COMPOSITION AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
