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Meet the Reps

The Student Organised Network for Architecture (SONA) is the official student body of the Australian Institute of Architects. We represent architecture students from across Australia, organising national, state and local events that provide opportunities for students to collaborate with each other as well as architects and associated professionals.

SONA members take part in the annual Australian Institute of Architects architecture conference, the biannual student congress, local mentoring and social events, design competitions, professional committees, and receive and contribute to nationally-recognised architecture publications.

The SONA team  is comprised of an executive committee of 5 student members and 19 student SONA Representatives from accredited universities (or those on the path way to becoming accredited) across Australia. It is this group of dedicated students that volunteers their time and energy to make positive things happen with SONA!

The SONA team would encourage you to get in touch with your university SONA rep to find out more about local happenings!

Your SONA National Committee

President 

Gina Engelhardt
president@sona.com.au

Immediate Past President

Troy Borg
pastpresident@sona.com.au

President Elect 

Jacques Chevrant-Breton
presidentelect@sona.com.au

Vice President – Competitions & Events

Leanne Haidar
vpevents@sona.com.au 
vpcompetitions@sona.com.au 

Vice President – Member Engagement

Amarinda Bazeley
vpmembership@sona.com.au

 

Your SONA State Representatives

Australian Capital Territory

University of Canberra

Courtney Thoo
uc@sona.com.au

New South Wales

University of Sydney

Jodie Chieu
usyd@sona.com.au

University of New South Wales

Celine Ti
unsw@sona.com.au

University of  Technology Sydney

Jack Thomas Osborn
uts@sona.com 

Newcastle University

Sahibajot Kaur (outgoing 2019)
newcastle@sona.com.au

Northern Territory

Charles Darwin University

Pio Gillamac
cdu@sona.com.au

Queensland 

Bond University

Nicole Mesquita-Mendes 
bond@sona.com.au

Griffith University Gold Coast

Asfand Tarar
griffith@sona.com.au   

Queensland University of Technology

Richelle Lim
qut@sona.com.au

University of Queensland

Kieren Dolores
uq@sona.com.au

South Australia

Adelaide University

Geoffrey William Baddams
adelaide@sona.com.au

University of South Australia

James Guy
unisa@sona.com.au

Tasmania

University of Tasmania

Chris Morrison
utas@sona.com.au

Victoria 

University of Melbourne

Saran Kim
melbourne@sona.com.au

Deakin University

Julie Pham
deakin@sona.com.au

Monash University

Daniel Soetjahjono
monash@sona.com.au

RMIT University

Christopher Filippidis
 rmit@sona.com.au

Western Australia

University of Western Australia

Kathryn Neale
uwa@sona.com.au     
 

Curtin University

Julian Kissling
curtin@sona.com.au

 

National Staff (Melbourne)
Bianca Haas (National Membership Engagement Officer)  sona@architecture.com.au

 “Photography by Aaron Puls, SJB Architects”

Living with Water event

Today, some cities suffer from rising sea-levels and unprecedented storms and flooding, while others endure drought and depleted aquifers. How can we build urban resilience in such uncertain times?”

It’s a full-day symposium on 20 March 2018, led by Foreground, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, the Melbourne School of Design and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, that will bring together a series of  international and Australian experts, who will explore how design can help mediate the burgeoning new relationships between water, land and our communities.

Our international speakers include Kongjian Yu (founder of the world’s biggest landscape architecture practice and a renowned innovator in water sensitive urban design), Lykke Leonardsen (one of Copenhagen’s governmental leaders in dealing with rising seas and flooding) and Kristina Hill (Berkeley’s resident urban design and sea level rise expert).

You can read more about the program and other speakers here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/living-with-water-design-for-uncertain-times-tickets-42257987779?discount=SONAMember2018

The event is primarily aimed at professionals, but we’d like to get a good quotient of students of design in the built environment in the audience, so we’d like to offer SONA members a 50% discount on ticket prices (on top of the group discount rate too, if people can buy in bulk). We have about 50 tickets available at that rate for a limited time.