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The Institute’s ACT Chapter works towards making a positive contribution to the Territory’s built environment. We provide support for our members through various programs including CPD activities, design competitions, advocacy campaigns and awards.
We promote innovative, sustainable and increased housing diversity in the Territory, as well as equitable employment practices in our local workforce.
The ACT Chapter recognises the Ngunnawal people as the traditional land owners of Canberra. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
The Institute is committed to developing and promoting a strong architectural profession and advocating for safer, more sustainable communities. Learn about local and national advocacy initiatives.
Our Chapter and National Awards programs are an opportunity for public and peer recognition of the valuable contribution architecture makes to our communities locally, nationally and internationally.
Continuing Professional Development is an important avenue to improve professional knowledge and competence.
View our range of online and face-to-face CPD opportunities.
Meet our Chapter Councillors and discover the local committees helping shape our work and the built environment.
Our Chapter hosts a range of local events celebrating architecture and catering to the profession and the broader community. Discover upcoming events now.
Architects from the Federal Capital Commission designed much of Canberra’s houses and public buildings in the city’s early years. As a result many of the older suburbs exhibit this largely cohesive ‘FCC style’ that is unique to Canberra.
Our Chapter hosts a range of local events celebrating architecture and catering to the profession and the broader community. Discover upcoming events now.
Looking for a room to hire or the latest architectural jobs in the ACT? Check out our notice board for the latest information.
Looking for a room to hire or the latest architectural jobs in the ACT? Check out our notice board for the latest information.
The ACT Chapter holds a series of talks and events for members as a part of its continuing professional development (CPD) program. Our speakers include local and visiting national and international architects, as well as specialist consultants from other built environment disciplines.
The Chapter also holds Practice of Architecture Learning Series tutorials to help participants prepare for the Architectural Practice Examination.
Having reached the halfway point of the Dulux Study Tour, today’s itinerary shifts from what is perhaps a coincidental focus on project visits to a full dance-card of architectural practice
We are disappointed that a long term vision and sense of urgency for the two biggest issues affecting the nation’s built environment – climate change and the housing-affordability crisis – is not shared by all parties.
Penning this to conclude my year as National President, I am trying to look forward without reflecting too much on what we have achieved.
Our fifth day of the Dulux Study Tour started at the Green Square Library and Plaza designed by Studio Hollenstein in association with Stewart Architecture and Hassell. Located in the
We are calling for housing to be recognised as a basic human right, which would be supported by a generational plan for affordable and social housing.
Last night’s crescendo to the Tasmanian leg of the Dulux Study Tour was swiftly upended with a 4am alarm clock and an early flight to Sydney. The rhythm of each
“In my life and in my work I’ll be advocating for strategic planning and actionable policies to address climate change. I have recently switched from a sportscar to an electric bike for my commute to work. As advocated by the national emerging architect Sarah Lebner, ‘I will be the change’.” – Jane Cassidy
2020 – 2021 | Shannon Battisson
2018 – 2020 | Philip Leeson
2016 – 2018 | Rob Henry
2014 – 2016 | Andrew Wilson
2012 – 2014 | Tony Trobe
2010 – 2012 | Sheila Hughes
2008 – 2010 | David Flannery
2006 – 2008 | Melinda Dodson
2002 – 2006 | Catherine Townsend
2000 – 2002 | Colin Stewart
1998 – 2000 | Dominic Maiuto
1994 – 1998 | Graham Humphries
1993 – 1994 | Annabelle Pegrum
1992 – 1993 | Peter Freeman
1990 – 1992 | Colin Stewart
1988 – 1990 | Alastair Swayn
1986 – 1988 | Eric Graham Butt
1984 – 1986| Barry Malcolm Cameron
1982 – 1984| Geoffrey Thomas Butterworth
1980 – 1982 | Ian Thompson
1978 – 1980 | Mervyn Bryce Willoughby-Thomas
1976 – 1978 | Anthony Kimbal Cooper
1975 – 1976 | Neil Renfree
1974 – 1975 | Arthur Chrisus Tow
1972 – 1974 | William Frank Batt
1970 – 1972 | Horace Holt
1968 – 1970 | John Goldsmith
1966 – 1968 | Peter Firman Harrison
1964 – 1966 | Edward John Scollay
1962 – 1964 | Malcolm Johnson Moir
House for Hiroko is a delightful and modest response to a couple’s life-long ambition to commission a home that celebrates and encapsulates a culturally rich life lived abroad. It is set around a central dining space, the heart and soul of the house, a thoroughfare between internal rooms, and a link between the courtyard gardens – a convergence of space, light and landscape that is both intimate and open, protective and permeable.
The arrangement and scale of rooms, the proportion of solid to void, the overlay of natural materials, appears effortless; just as it should be. Domestic and refined; calm and in balance.
From the street the modestly proportioned exterior of the house is clad with painted brickwork; a protective outer layer. As the brick peels away, and the interior and private spaces are revealed, materials soften, and timber, glass and concrete create a warm and permeable transition into the home, and from the home out to the garden. The butterfly roof is underplayed; visible but not striking; composed.
House for Hiroko expresses the clients’ heritage and yet feels very much of its place. The jury was unanimous in selecting House for Hiroko for The Malcolm Moir and Heather Sutherland Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New).
AWARDED 2021 Australian Institute of Architects ACT Chapter – Canberra Medallion
AWARDED 2021 Australian Institute of Architects ACT Chapter – Malcolm Moir & Heather Sutherland Award for Residential Architecture – HOUSES (New)
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Member Services Officer
ACT Chapter
Australian Institute of Architects
PO Box 3373
Manuka, ACT 2603
2a Mugga Way
Red Hill, ACT 2603
P: +61 2 6208 2100
E: act@architecture.com.au
Our office can be tricky to find.
We are on the corner of Mugga Way,
Melbourne Ave and Tennyson Cres.
