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From the Chapter Chair
June 6, 2019Dear Members, As you all know, May is the month of the Pritzker Prize and this year the highest award in architecture went to Arata Isosaki of Japan. The ceremony took place in Château de Versailles, in France, a location chosen (as is customary for this prize) to reinforce the importance of the built environment while ...From the Chapter Chair
May 7, 2019Dear Members, With May upon us and the Holy Month of Ramadan just beginning, Dubai prepares to adopt a distinct change of pace. The city slows down by day while fasting is respected, and then comes alive again in the evenings with family and friends in celebration. It’s a lovely time to be in Dubai, but ...
From the Chapter Chair
April 3, 2019Dear Members, March has been a busy month for jurors and teams associated with the 2019 International Chapter Architecture Awards and I’m excited to inform you that we have received a record number of entries – 39! An impressive improvement on previous years! Chaired by Chapter Councillor Annelise Tiller (based in Dubai) our 2019 Awards jury is ...From The Chapter Chair
March 6, 2019Dear All, I have just returned to Dubai after attending our first National Council meeting. The meeting took place at the Institute’s Canberra office where we were introduced to the new CEO, Julia Cambage, and to the newly appointed Chapter Presidents and our nationally elected Councillors. The two day meeting included a review of the comprehensive ...From The Chapter Chair
February 5, 2019Dear International Chapter Members, Thank you for all your support and encouragement and for the ensuing warm welcome I have received as incoming Chair. It is a great honour and pleasure for me to serve the Australian Institute of Architects, and specifically the newly formed International Chapter, which currently represents 5% of the total AIA membership. The ...
From The Outgoing Chapter Chair
February 5, 2019Dear International Members, a belated Happy New Year and greetings for 2019! I take this opportunity to welcome all new International Chapter members and to offer my thanks and gratitude to all those members who put themselves forward in the recent elections. Hearty congratulations to elected Councillors David Teh, Bob Nation, Natalie Ward, Janine Campbell and ...
From the Chapter Chair
December 6, 2018Seasonal Greetings to all AIA International members around the world. Our Dubai Boarding Pass event held on 14 November, during the 2018 Dubai Design Week festivities, was well attended and we extend a warm thank you to our event partners Schiavello International and OFIS, for hosting another UAE member and colleague’s networking event. The evening included ...
Le Corbusier – What moves us?
October 3, 2018Le Corbusier – What moves us? Report by International Chapter Council Vice President, Janine Campbell Australian Architect and Urban Designer, Glenn Harper recently presented a paper at the international conference ‘Le Corbusier – What moves us…?’. This took place at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark on 19-20 November 2015. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Swiss Architect’s ...International Member Profile: Nikki South
October 3, 2018Nikki South is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects with projects in Sydney, Germany, UK, Hong Kong and now Lisbon. Leaving a large Sydney practice behind and starting her own office gave Nikki the opportunity and flexibility to explore working in different countries. In Germany, Nikki collaborated with Munich based architect Juergen Rauch ...International profile: GreenhilLi
October 3, 2018What brought you to Singapore, how long have you been in practice there? Nigel arrived to work on Circle Line in 2001 and Sau Kei relocated from Sydney in 1997 after being offered a job just before the Olympic boom. We’ve been working in Singapore since, mostly on transit architecture, apart from 1 year in 2004 spent ...International profile: Jean Francois Milou
October 3, 2018What brought you to Singapore, how long have you been in practice there? In 2007, my studio in Paris won the international competition to design the National Gallery Singapore. I felt that with a project of this scale, around 60, 000 square metres and a budget of over 500million SGD, it was essential to set up ...From the Chapter Chair
October 3, 2018Greetings to all International Institute members around the world. It is with great pleasure that we announce and welcome our newly appointed International Chapter Councillor, Nick Derickx from Singapore. Nick is a most enthusiastic and highly qualified Australian architect who will bring new energy and enthusiasm to the Chapter. He has filled a casual vacancy on ...From the Chapter Chair
September 3, 2018Dear colleagues and fellow Australian architects it is with great sadness that we hear of the sudden and sad passing of Kerry Hill LFRAIA. A true ambassador and icon of Australian architecture and leader in promoting the ‘Australian Style’ in his work internationally and in Australia. His legacy is clearly evident and seen in his ...
2018 International Chapter Architecture Award winners
July 23, 2018Congratulations to the winning projects announced at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 International Chapter Architecture Awards held in Singapore on Friday 20 July. Media Release can be viewed here. Full list of winners: Commercial Architecture Commendation – Kampung Admiralty by WOHA Kampung Admiralty by WOHA. Photo: Patrick Bingham-Hall Interior Architecture Award – Australian Embassy Bangkok by BVN Australian Embassy Bangkok. Photo: ...
View from London
July 8, 2016Dik Jarman Aff RAIA Brexit emotions have rolled over the UK in the past days like a slow relentless tsunami. Sitting in my office in the Midlands it feels as if everything will be rearranged by this decision and the general mood is currently one of loss rather than the excitement of a new beginning. Even though ...
View from Singapore
May 19, 2016Justin Hill FRAIA Normally buoyed by a healthy property market, with many new condominiums on the go at any one time, things are slowing in Singapore. We are no longer running out of sand, concrete and piling rigs (as we did during the rapid roll-out of two large casino developments in recent years). Word on the ...
The International Chapter
August 11, 2015At the Special General Meeting held in Canberra on Friday 31 July, the special resolution to amend the Institute’s Articles of Association, as advertised, was passed. As such, what has formerly been known as the International Area Committee, will henceforth take the name of the “International Chapter”. It is important to note, however, that the ...
LÖWENBRÄUAREAL, Zürich, Switzerland
March 21, 2015Janine Campbell RAIA Project: LÖWENBRÄUAREAL, Zürich, Switzerland Architects: GIGON/GUYER and atelier ww Brewery manufacturers in recent years have relocated from the outskirts of cities leaving large districts of sites ripe for urban rejuvenation, such as Sydney`s Carlton United Brewery development designed by Jean Nouvel Zürich`s famous Löwenbräu brewery area is now also under development, and until recently, was a makeshift ...
What’s happening in New York
February 12, 2015Grant Marani FRAIA New York is in the midst of a construction boom that will significantly reshape the ever-changing Manhattan skyline. Downtown, redevelopment at the World Trade Center continues with the completion of the 1,776-foot ‘One World Trade Center’, designed by David Childs of SOM, and Fumihiko Maki’s ‘Four World Trade Center’; ‘Three World Trade Center’, ...
Architecture should serve the people
February 12, 2015Steven Smit RAIA. In October 2014 the Chinese president Xi Jin Ping commented on ‘strange’ Chinese architecture in a speech to Chinese professionals active in the cultural fields (‘art should serve the people’). What he probably means is less waste, fewer frivolous building designs and more responsibility exercised by designers and building approval bodies. The speech has started ...
From the Chair
October 24, 2014Dik Jarman Aff RAIA There isn’t just a certain type of person who leaves their country to explore the world in search of new professional experiences and opportunities as these journeys start from all walks of life; but there are definitely certain aspects of personality that one must have to continue on this journey successfully for ...