The Institute is proud to announce the Jurors for this year’s Northern Territory Architecture Awards.
These awards celebrate the diversity of built outcomes across the state and the vital contributions of our local members. We congratulate those selected; each juror brings unique expertise to the rigorous peer-review process that defines Australia’s most esteemed architecture awards.
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2026 Jurors
- JURY CHAIR – Katherine Ashe
- LAY JUROR – Jan-Marie Jaillei
- ARCHITECT JURY – Les Platt
Katherine Ashe
Katherine Ashe has been teaching, practising, and studying architecture in Western Australia since 1996. Her work explores a range of approaches to architectural design and seeks creative diversity through relationships with different institutions, industry, research, and studio education. These innate connective tendencies emerge as a symbiotic studio-teaching approach and experimental practice.
Katherine is a co-founder of vittinoAshe architects in Boorloo/Perth and a senior lecturer/co-chair of the architectural design stream at the University of Notre Dame in Walyalup/Fremantle. Currently undertaking a design practice-based PhD at RMIT, she is using case studies, diverse modes of working, and speculative projects to explore processes that embed architecture in its situation. Influenced by her childhood in the remote desert regions of Australia, Katherine is particularly interested in developing a project-specific capacity to foreground deeply felt knowledge – Traditional and Western – to integrate into her creative works.
vittinoAshe, co-directed with Marco Vittino, is a small studio committed to a process-driven, collaborative architectural production. Projects are of varying scales and types, from strategic visioning to small, highly crafted interiors, where resonant traces, people, places and stories all begin to coalesce. Katherine is a registered Architect and in 2018 received the Western Australian Institute of Architects’ Emerging Architects Prize, recognising her ongoing contribution to practice, education and research.
Jan-Marie Jaillei
An award-winning interior designer with over 25 years of international experience, Jan-Marie Jaillei has honed her craft across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Trained at London’s renowned Inchbald School of Design in Interior Architecture and holds a diploma in Architectural Feng Shui from the New York Design Institute, her approach blends global design influences with modern luxury.
As the founder of Darwin-based JMJ Interiors for the past 10 years she leads a talented team in delivering bespoke residential and commercial projects from concept through to completion of build. A respected industry leader and Deputy Chair of the DIA SA/NT branch, Jan-Marie is honoured to serve as a lay juror for the 2026 Architecture Awards.
Les Platt
Les has been a practicing Architect in the Northern Territory since 1981, bringing decades of expertise across a diverse range of project types. He has extensive experience in remote community and health infrastructure and is a dedicated advocate for sustainable design. Notably, Les delivered the first two green-rated buildings in the Northern Territory, and his commitment to excellence was recognised last year when he received the Tracy Memorial Award for the Jabiru Health Centre.