The 2022-23 Victorian State Budget was released on the afternoon of Tuesday, 3 May. A hidden outcome buried in the Budget Paper No. 3 – Services Delivery was a cut in the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s funding by 42% from $1.2 million per annum to just $700,000 per annum.
Donald Leslie Johnson (2 January 1930 – 9 May 2022), architect, academic and architectural historian, was born in Bremerton, Washington State in the United States …
After a huge four days in Sydney, we woke early to venture north to Garrmalang/Garramilla (Darwin). For many of us, this was the first time we …
Photography by white door photography by marion g The QLD Chapter had the second 2022 Regional Awards event on Friday, 13th of May for Gold …
With cockatoos screeching overhead, we hopped into cabs and headed to Western Sydney to start Day Seven of the Dulux Study Tour with a visit …
It is with great sadness that we advise members of the passing of James Taylor on Tuesday, 17 May 2022. James first joined the Institute …
Award-winning Canberra architect Shannon Battisson will bring a commitment to championing architecture to the public while ensuring sustainability remains top of mind in her role as the incoming National President for the Australian Institute of Architects.
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 …
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.
Becoming an architect takes a long time. In Australia, a student has to spend a minimum of five years at university in order to get an architecture degree. During this
As Australia’s population continues to rise, the demand for housing continues to intensify. To meet this demand, apartment buildings are being built at a rapid pace. Most high streets around
One of the things that makes Australia great is our richness of diversity. There are people from so many cultural backgrounds, language groups, and belief systems, which influences the way
In 1980 the median house price in Melbourne was $40,800. Fast forward to 2016 and the median price of a house was $713,000. With property prices rising across the country,
Most Australians live in cities. The 2016 census showed that 71% of Australian’s live in major cities, and only 10% of Australians live in towns with less than 10,000 people.
The beginning of an architecture project usually starts with some form of communication. It can be a conversation over a coffee, through an email from a client listing a dozen
Before any architecture project starts, there needs to be a client who has the vision to build something. Once they’ve committed to build, they’ll need some specialists to work through
Australians love to renovate their homes. You can tell we do because there are so many DIY TV programs that show us how to give it a go. But when
In 2017, the Australian Institute of Architects awarded Melbourne based architect Peter Elliott with the Gold Medal, which is the Institutes highest honour. As part of his gold medal tour,
When you start to look for it, architecture is everywhere and it’s the stage on which we play out our lives. It doesn’t matter whether we’re working in it, living