Introducing the Jury for the 2026 Victorian Architecture Awards

Chair of Juries  

• Simon Knott 

Commercial Architecture: 

• Tobias Pond (Chair), Kerstin Thompson Architects 

• Marianne Calvelo, Warren & Mahoney Architects 

• Lance van Maanen, Kosloff Architecture 

• Zoe Spooner (Graduate Juror), Architectus 

Educational Architecture: 

• Rowan Opat (Chair), Opat Architects 

• Stephanie Reed Marshall, Bryant Alsop 

• Sophie Davis, MGS Architects 

• Liam Blanc (Graduate Juror), Billard Leece Partnership 

Heritage: 

• Tim O’Sullivan (Chair), multiplicity 

• Christophe Loustau, Conservation Studio 

• Yvonne Meng, Circle Studios Architects 

• Domenica Wenban (Graduate Juror), Bryant Alsop Architects 

Interior Architecture: 

• Anne Clisby (Chair), Anne Clisby Architects 

• Amber Stewart, ARM Architecture 

• Richard Blight, Flack Studio 

• Oscar Casper (Graduate Juror), Wood Marsh Architecture 

Public Architecture: 

• Hamish Lyon (Chair), NH Architecture 

• Veryan Curnow, Jackson Clements Burrows Architects 

• Andy Gentry, Woods Bagot 

• Wen Zhu (Graduate Juror), Hayball 

COLORBOND Award for Steel Architecture: 

• Jean-Francois Laroche (Chair), Hayball 

• Evie Blackman, Carter Studio 

• Luna Gratton, Brand Architects 

• Andrew Gregory (Graduate Juror), STH 

Melbourne Prize: 

• Aimee Goodwin (Chair), Project 12 Architecture 

• Michael Roper, Architecture Architecture 

• Marc Debney, Genton 

• Dea Cepeda (Graduate Juror), Winter Architect 

EmAGN Project Award: 

• Steph Bullock (Chair), Chapter President 

• Simon Knott, Chair of Juries 

• Nicole Eadie, EmAGN Co-Chair 

• Alex Daicos (Graduate Juror), DesignInc Melbourne 

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations & Additions): 

• Aaron Roberts (Chair), Edition Office 

• Todd de Hoog, SSdH 

• Sophie Nash, Nash Architects 

• Simone Chait (Graduate Juror), Sibling Architecture 

Residential Architecture – Houses New: 

• Stefan Mee (Chair), Architectus 

• Rachel Nolan, Kennedy Nolan 

• Joseph Lovell, Lovell Burton Architecture 

• Sammy Bailey (Graduate Juror), Architecture Architecture 

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing: 

• Clare Cousins (Chair), Clare Cousins Architects 

• Julian Anderson, Bates Smart 

• Briony Massie, Fieldwork 

• Justin Yu (Graduate Juror), Field Work Projects 

Small Project Architecture: 

• Warwick Mihaly (Chair), Mihaly Slocombe 

• Phuong Nguyen, HASSELL 

• Zoe Diacolabrianos, WOWOWA 

• Gerald Yi En Low (Graduate Juror), BKK Architects 

Urban Design: 

• Suzannah Waldron (Chair), Searle x Waldron 

• Jefa Greenaway, Greenaway Architects (GA) 

• David Morison, David Morison 

• Marian Alphonso (Graduate Juror)

Regional Prize: 

• Kim Irons (Chair), Stonehouse + Irons Architecture 

• Lauren Trainor, Eastop Architects 

• Justin Noxon, Draper Noxon 

• Kean Sheng Khoo (Graduate Juror), Breathe Architecture 

Sustainable Architecture: 

• Shanica Saenrak Hall (Chair), Northrop 

• James Loder, Wardle 

• Emilio Fuscaldo, Nest Architects 

• Dexter Xian Yang Wong (Graduate Juror), Finding Infinity 

Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media 

• Prue Perry (Chair), Bates Smart 

• Georgia Birks, Architecture Media 

• Timothy Moore, Monash