Australian Architecture Conference 2026 | On Demand
The live conference conversation,
on your schedule.
Couldn’t make it to Brisbane? We’ll bring the Conference to you. The Australian Architecture Conference On Demand brings the profession’s most important conversation in a decade to your screen. 16 sessions featuring speakers from London, Barcelona, Cape Town, the Netherlands and across Australia, ready to watch on your schedule from 1 December.
Why watch on demand
Here's what you take home
The speakers you’d fly to see
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International voices and Australia’s leading practitioners, with no flights and no days out of the studio.
Ideas you can take back to practice
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Housing, carbon, AI, tighter budgets and the future of the profession, tackled by the people doing the work.
Watch it your way
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Pause, rewind and revisit when it suits you.
Formal CPD, included
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A minimum of 13 hours of formal CPD, with an assessment and certificate for each formal CPD session. Come for the ideas. The CPD comes with them.
The program
Four conversations the profession can't afford to miss
This year’s Conference asks a hard question: Together. Or Not At All? These sessions answer it from four directions.
How we house people
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Who decides what a good home looks like, and who gets to build it? The answers range from Warumungu-led housing in Tennant Creek to new models of living together in Barcelona
Covered through:
- Living Together, Building Together | Marta Peris and José Toral
- Structures of Liberation | Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff
- The Limits of Repetition | Daniel Burnett
Climate, carbon and what we build with
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Architects have declared a climate emergency. Now, these sessions ask what zero carbon housing actually takes, where the skills gap sits, and what practices have learned about circular design.
- Australian Zero Carbon House Challenge
- Beyond the Climate Declaration
- The Carbon Skills Gap
- Attempts at Circularity: Wins, losses and lessons from practice
The future of practice
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Tighter budgets, AI, and a profession questioning its own role. How do practices stay relevant, viable and worth working for?
Covered through:
- Keynote by Indy Johar
- Architecture Against Architecture | Reinier de Graaf, OMA
- The Future of the Profession
- Digital Innovation & AI in Practice
- Global Intelligence, Local Action: What Must Architecture Tackle Now?
Place, craft and legacy
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Why place is more important than ever, from the practices and careers built on it.
- Keynote by Patrick Kennedy and Rachel Nolan
- It All Turns on Affection | Simon Pendal
- Keynote by Alison Brooks OBE
- RAIA and NZIA Gold Medallists: Architecture, influences, education and stewardship | Lindsay Clare, Kerry Clare and Richard Naish
Keynote speakers
Featured speakers
Practitioners and thinkers whose work is reshaping how architecture engages with place, culture and systems.
Indy Johar
London, United Kingdom
Co-founder of Dark Matter Labs and Architecture00, an RIBA award-winning practice. Pioneer of open-source housing and furniture through WikiHouse and Open Desk, and professor at RMIT University. Accolades include the 2022 London Design Medal and 2023 MBE âž”
This keynote is presented in partnership with RMIT, Planetary Civics InquiryÂ
Reinier de Graaf
Schiedam, Netherlands
Reinier de Graaf is a Dutch architect and writer, a partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and co-founder of its think-tank AMO. He is the author of Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession, architect, verb.: The New Language of Building, The Masterplan and Architecture Against Architecture âž”
This keynote is presented in partnership with the Queensland University of Technology ➔
Marta Peris and José Toral
Barcelona, Spain
Co-founders of PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES. Architects and researchers recognised internationally for advancing innovative housing design, new models of living and sustainable construction, combining social innovation with sustainable building practice âž”
Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff
Cape Town, South Africa
Co-founders of Wolff Architects. Ilze is an architect and scholar with experience in design, teaching and heritage consulting; Heinrich is an architect and project manager developing an architectural practice of consequence âž”
Alison Brooks OBE
London, England
Founder of Alison Brooks Architects, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning architect renowned for creating sculptural, people-centred buildings and places that redefine housing, culture and urban life.
This keynote is presented in partnership with American Hardwood Export Council and University of Western Australia âž”
Simon Pendal FRAIA
Fremantle, Western Australia
Principal of Simon Pendal Architect. Architect, educator and researcher focused on place-responsive design.
This keynote is presented in partnership with Bond University âž”
Patrick Kennedy FRAIA and Rachel Nolan LFRAIA
Melbourne, Victoria
Founding partners of Kennedy Nolan. Patrick is a board member of the Robin Boyd Foundation. Rachel is curious about people, culture, and the mystery and magic of place âž”
Simon Quilty and Jimmy Frank Jupurrurla, with Carroll Go-Sam Hon. FRAIA
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, and Brisbane, QueenslandÂ
Jimmy Frank Jupurrurla (Warumungu) and doctor Simon Quilty discuss housing, Country and design, facilitated by Carroll Go-Sam (Dyirbal, UQ) âž”
Richard Naish FNZIA
Auckland, New Zealand
Richard Naish is the Founder and Design Director of RTA Studio, an award-winning Auckland practice renowned for shaping sustainable, people-centred architecture.
This concurrent session is presented in partnership with Te Kahui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects âž”
Kerry Clare LFRAIA
Gold Coast, Queensland
Kerry Clare is a founding Director of Clare Design and has practised architecture with Lindsay Clare since 1979.
This concurrent session is presented in partnership with Te Kahui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects âž”
Lindsay Clare LFRAIA
Gold Coast, Queensland
Lindsay Clare is a founding Director of Clare Design, established with Kerry Clare in 1979.
This concurrent session is presented in partnership with Te Kahui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects âž”
What’s included
16 sessions | 16 hours
minimum 13 hours formal CPD
Day 1 keynotes
| Session | Presenters | Formal CPD |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | Indy Johar | – |
| Keynote | Patrick Kennedy FRAIA and Rachel Nolan LFRAIA | 1 point |
| Keynote | Alison Brooks OBE | – |
| Who Is the Expert? Warumungu People Building Houses, Building Health, Building Culture | Simon Quilty and Jimmy Frank Jupurrurla, facilitated by Carroll Go-Sam Hon. FRAIA | 1 point |
| Living Together, Building Together | Marta Peris and José Toral | 1 point |
Day 2 keynotes
| Session | Presenters | Formal CPD |
|---|---|---|
| Structures of Liberation | Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff | – |
| It All Turns on Affection | Simon Pendal FRAIA | 1 point |
| Architecture Against Architecture | Reinier de Graaf | 1 point |
Day 2 concurrent sessions
| Session | Presenters | Formal CPD |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Zero Carbon House Challenge | Rob Henry FRAIA, Fei Ngeow, Ross Donaldson FRAIA and Anna O'Gorman FRAIA | 1 point |
| Beyond the Climate Declaration | Dominika Richards, Kavita Gonsalves, Kendall Claus, Karlee Blackburn and Richard Stokes | 1 point |
| Global Intelligence, Local Action – What Must Architecture Tackle Now? | Suzanne Bosanquet FRAIA, Richard Kirk LFRAIA, Allen Kong LFRAIA, Tracy Lord, Kylie Mills FRAIA and Kathy Bryla | 1 point |
| The Future of the Profession | Blake Hillebrand, Gina Engelhardt, Hudson Smith and Izzie White | 1 point |
| The Carbon Skills Gap | Jane Cassidy LFRAIA, Stefan Preuss, David Ritter and Liz Brogden | 1 point |
| Attempts at Circularity – Wins, losses and lessons from practice | Clare Kennedy | 1 point |
| Digital Innovation & AI in Practice | Kathlyn Loseby LFRAIA, Dr Ivana Kuzmanovska and Ben Doherty | 1 point |
| The Limits of Repetition: How much can we repeat before it stops being architecture? | Daniel Burnett | 1 point |
| RAIA and NZIA Gold Medallists: Architecture – influences, education and stewardship | Lindsay Clare LFRAIA and Kerry Clare LFRAIA | 1 point |
The available sessions were correct at time of writing and are subject to change.
Tickets
Pricing designed to meet you
where you are
Buy now for $396 for members or $614 for non-members and save 20% on the member price. From 1 December, when every session is live, prices increase to $495 for members and $767 for non-members. Enjoy the same sessions and speakers for less when you purchase now.
Earlybird
- All 17 recorded keynotes and sessions (17 hours)Â
- Speakers from London, Barcelona, Cape Town, the Netherlands and across AustraliaÂ
- Watch anytime from 1 December 2026Â
- Minimum 13 hours of formal CPD, with assessment and certificateÂ
From $396
Buying for your team? A+ Practices can enrol staff with Practice Pass credits. See how →
Full price
- All 17 recorded keynotes and sessions (17 hours)Â
- Speakers from London, Barcelona, Cape Town, the Netherlands and across AustraliaÂ
- Watch anytime from 1 December 2026Â
- Minimum 13 hours of formal CPD, with assessment and certificateÂ
From $495
Buying for your team? A+ Practices can enrol staff with Practice Pass credits. See how →
The available sessions were correct at time of writing and are subject to change.
For A+ Practices
One purchase. Your whole team at the Conference.
Give your team the speakers, the ideas and the formal CPD without anyone leaving the studio. With the A+ Practice Pass, you buy CPD credits once for the whole practice and enrol any staff member in seconds. There’s no registering people one at a time, no separate invoices and no chasing receipts.
One purchase, not forty
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One pool of credits for the whole practice, on one invoice.
Your budget goes further
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Credits from $49 at the introductory rate (normally $79), available until 31 December 2026.
Credits don’t expire
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Buy now and enrol your team when sessions go live on 1 December.
See where it’s going
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A live dashboard shows available credits, what’s been used and when.
Enrol the team, then put a keynote on the big screen over lunch. One session, one conversation, the whole studio in the room.
Frequently asked questions
When can I access the sessions?
All recorded sessions will be available by Tuesday 1 December 2026. Register before then to secure the Earlybird price of $396.
How much formal CPD can I earn?
The package includes a minimum of 13 hours of formal CPD across 17 hours of recorded sessions. Each formal CPD session includes an assessment and a certificate upon completion.
I'm buying for my practice. Can I enrol my team?
Yes. A+ Practices can use Practice Pass credits to enrol any eligible staff member in seconds, with one purchase covering the whole team. Not an A+ Practice yet? Speak to our membership team about what A+ Practice Membership could look like for your practice.
Have questions about on-demand registration?
Contact the education team at [email protected]
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