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NSW Chapter Manager

The Institute’s Architecture on Show talks program continues to build audiences across NSW; with Marrickville, Randwick, Woollahra and City of Sydney councils all hosting AOS events in the coming weeks. Curated by members, these programs engage with communities on a local level about architecture, design and planning.

In other news, Messrs Sam Oboh, President and Allan Teramura, incoming President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) will be visiting Sydney on 11 and 12 November. This will be their third and final leg of their Australian tour following Brisbane and then Melbourne. We will be arranging some short tours and an opportunity for our Chapter President, our national incoming President and other key people to meet and showcase our city.

Audrey Braun
NSW Chapter Manager

 

NSW Chapter President

Thoughts from a traveller

I’ve just returned to Sydney from three weeks away in Paris and London. It’s wonderful to visit these great cities and remind yourself how they are made. I found the joy of walking the streets of Paris tempered by the frustration of knowing that in Sydney our decision-makers keep trying to un-learn the lessons of our past, and un-learn the knowledge of how to make a great city. It’s a frustration enhanced by the knowledge that Sydney still has the potential to be a great city that truly reflect its stunning natural landscape.

It seems the “shock of the new” demands an attempt at a new way, which somehow means you throw out the rule book and hope the “Instagram” or “technology” will solve the inherent problems, yet tellingly they always seem to fail. Thankfully cities are dynamic places that are in constant re-making. But the wastefulness of building badly and then replacing one mistake with another one 25 years later is not the way to make a great city – but it’s a pattern we keep repeating.

It is also frighteningly true, as Amanda Burden [past director of the NYC Department of Planning and Chair of the City Planning Commission that commissioned the Highline] says, that you have to constantly fight for public space and domain. I guess this is our role as guardians of the city: to fight for Sydney’s public spaces. It’s a great role for the Institute to embrace through advocacy.

I wrote some notes whilst in Paris on what makes a good city…..these are largely what good architects know, what you as members know, what people like Philip Thalis and Peter John Cantrill advocate so graphically in their book Public Sydney:

  • Start with ambition
  • Great cities take time to make
  • Great cities are designed around great public buildings, great public domain & great public transport
  • Sub-divide into fine & varying grain
  • Design with many skilled authors
  • Buildings and public domain are made with:
    • high quality materials and
    • fine details
  • Buildings respect the street and public domain
  • Cars work around cities, not cities around the car

And above all, great cities are places for social and cultural celebration and growth. They are not solely profit centres.

Sydney Architecture Festival

Congratulations to members, Chapter staff, volunteers and everyone else involved in the events of the past weekend. The Festival is now in its ninth year and is a firm fixture on the city’s event calendar.

The new format of a four day Festival condensed the 10 day program of previous years into an action-packed long weekend of talks, events, tours, competitions and activities.

The flagship public event for the festival was #TheGoods, the first major public event held at the Ultimo Goods Line, one of the most exciting recent urban regeneration projects in the city. The full-day event included yoga, tai chi, talks, symposiums, a zine fair and a night-time short film festival. The Meet an Architect segment seemed to be particularly popular.

Country Conference / Chapter Council on the road

The Country Division conference in Bathurst last month gave us the opportunity to extend the Chapter Council meeting ‘on the road’ into the regions for the first time. I thank Andrew Nimmo, Sarah Aldridge and other councillors for making this such a successful event in my absence overseas.

I’ve been particularly impressed by the quality and innovation evident in the Country Division Awards this year – everything from a café on the outskirts of Mudgee using containers as building blocks to the re-imagining of a tired shopping mall in Ballina, and lots of other interesting and successful projects in between. Congratulations to our country members for such an impressive and varied line-up of their work.

Greater Sydney Commission

We welcomed the announcement of this body last year and now there’s a definite shape to it: the Secretaries of Planning & Environment, Transport and Treasury, six district commissioners, an independent chair, an environment commissioner, an economic commissioner and a social commissioner plus four committees and two observers. So far so good – but design is nowhere to be seen. We will be lobbying hard to make sure design excellence is an important part of the Commission’s work.

Shaun Carter
NSW President

NSW Chapter Manager

The NSW Chapter hosted ArchiCareers Day on 11 September, with 100 high school students in attendance. The day’s program included informative presentations from Tim Horton of the NSW Architects Registration Board and the university schools of architecture and providing an informative platform for students intrested in the profession. The ArchiCareers Day is an important event in the calendar, showcasing careers in architecture. A special thank you to our sponsors, UTS, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney and UNSW who were on hand to answer questions from the students regarding their study programs.

The Sydney Architecture Festival is less than two weeks away, from 2-5 October. Make sure you save the dates and secure your tickets to the program, as events are selling out fast! The full Festival event program can be found at www.sydneyarchitecturefestival.org.

And finally, we are taking Chapter Council on the road this week to Bathurst, where the NSW Country Division Conference We’ve Come so Far, So Far will be held on 23 and 24 September. The Conference program has an excellent line-up of speakers, a trade show and full social program for regional architects to connect. The full conference program can be found on our website under NSW Chapter events.

Audrey Braun
NSW Chapter Manager

NSW Chapter President

SEPP 65 / Apartment Design Guide

NSW members are fortunate beneficiaries of the SEPP, which is the only design-based legislation in Australia and which requires all multi-residential buildings to be designed by architects. In the 13 years of the SEPP’s operation the quality of apartment design in NSW has improved significantly. This will have a beneficial impact on the international competitiveness of the city in the decades ahead as the rate of apartment living continues to outpace that of detached housing.

The Chapter is presenting a series of professional development events to inform members of the key elements of the revised SEPP and to enable you to visit exemplary apartment buildings. I hope you will take advantage of these sessions to build up your skills.

NSW architects have some immense advantages at the present time:

  1. We benefit from the SEPP’s mandatory requirement that only architects can design apartment buildings;
  2. Multi-residential projects now exceed the construction of single or attached housing projects; and
  3. NSW is the fastest growing construction sector in the country.

I acknowledge that there may be some teething problems as the new documents are used in the real world. No legislation is ever perfect, particularly when it is linked to a guideline that contains details of specific minimum standards and advice as to how they should be applied. The Department of Planning & Environment is also well aware of the possibility that there may be some anomalies that will need to be corrected or clarified.

If you find something in the SEPP or the guide that doesn’t appear to make sense I encourage you to contact the Chapter’s policy advisor, who can refer your concerns to a skilled member of the Built Environment Committee and advise you how to resolve the problem. Don’t be shy in coming forward; we all want the new SEPP to work effectively for our mutual benefit in the years ahead.

The Institute has commissioned a research project to collect, collate and interrogate qualitative and quantitative data based on 13 years of lived experience of SEPP 65-compliant apartment buildings. The outcome of this project is to understand the effects of SEPP 65 against desired objectives and assess the efficacy of the controls. The overarching goal of the research project is to use this data to support the SEPP in future reviews so that NSW can develop world’s best apartment design legislation.

I am also keen to eventually extend the reach of the design quality principles underpinning the SEPP to other building types, such as boarding houses, student accommodation, serviced apartments, villas and townhouses.
Shaun Carter
NSW President

NSW Chapter President

 

In a recent meeting with the Minister for Finance, Services & Property, Dominic Perrottet, I reiterated the Institute’s concern that if the Government Architect’s Office is to move to a more strategic role in government it needs to have sufficient expert staff to do that job effectively. It’s one thing for the office to give up its current design workload for public sector building projects; but quite another to be advising on the strategic use of design excellence and expertise without itself having access to the experienced people who understand first-hand what design excellence and expertise can achieve. This initial meeting was a positive step. The Minister was quite open about the options for giving the GAO a central role.

Gender Equity
The Chapter’s future Champions of Change had their second face to face meeting recently. I am heartened by the honesty with which these men are facing the challenge of gender equity in their workplaces – and their willingness to join others working to change the culture of the profession. I will keep you posted on further developments.


Shaun Carter
NSW Chapter President

Ian McKay 1932-2015

IAN McKAY 1932-2015
Architect / Environmental Designer

One of Australia’s most exceptional but least celebrated architects, Ian McKay, died last week in Byron Bay. His deliberate low profile aside, Ian was propelled by innate talent, strong views, innovative thinking, independence and an intense love of his profession. As it happened, he had not one career in architecture but two: the first from the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies and the second, quite different practice, from 1980 onwards.

Growing up in a farming family in Coonabarabran, in central-western NSW, Ian developed a deep connection with nature and the land that sustained him throughout his life. After schooling at Scots College, Sydney, he studied architecture at the University of New South Wales, where he was intuitively drawn to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. He was also indelibly impressed by an early trip to Japan, by the way the traditional architecture meshed with the landscape and the craftsmanship of its construction. He later said that “what craftsmanship expresses is commitment – and life without commitment is a denial of living.”

After graduating in 1954, Ian was already a rising star in the early sixties when Tocal Agricultural College and Leppington Boys Home, which he designed together with Philip Cox, were both honoured with the Australian Institute of Architects’ Sulman Medal. Their shared intention had been to make truly Australian architecture and Ian remained proud of the heritage-listed Tocal buildings, describing them as ’Australian to the core.’ In 1965, Ian also qualified as a town-planner. He produced a number of medium-density housing developments in Sydney and Canberra, where his Swinger Hill project was described by Robin Boyd as ‘the first substantial revolt against suburbia ever to be made in Australia.’

By the mid-seventies Ian was running a Sydney practice with a staff of 50, but he came to loathe the bureaucracy, scale and commercialism of the business. When the Sydney property market crashed in 1975 he opted out to Mullumbimby, where he built himself a wooden house, grew his own vegetables and rebuilt his life.

By 1980, he’d returned to Sydney where he met his third wife, architect Helen Peoples, and entrepreneur John Cornell, for whom he went on to produce numerous projects in Byron Bay and surrounds including the Byron Bay Beach Hotel and Motel. At this time Ian worked alone from his studio at home, and for over thirty years he was assisted by just one architect/draftsman, Lawrie Huxley. As work flowed in by word of mouth, he designed many projects in the northern rivers area, as well as in Sydney and beyond.

Throughout both careers Ian designed bespoke houses for private clients, as housing was really where his heart lay. He felt his contribution to architecture was fully realised in his houses – each one a highly-personal portrait of his client. He was also fortunate, for many years, to work with construction foreman Buko Vogel and a team of craftsmen whose skills were pushed to greater levels to bring Ian’s unconventional plans to life.

The houses, despite being quite different from each other, all carry Ian’s distinctive signature and are full of inventive details. The house he designed in Lobster Bay for photographer David Moore was described by architectural writer Phillip Drew as ‘a thoroughly modern masterpiece.’ Drew also compared Greengrove, the landscaped complex of stone and timber buildings designed for Rod and Kathy Muir in Mangrove Mountain, with Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin East. Then there were his own houses, in North Sydney, in Kangaroo Valley, and lastly, in Tuntable Creek west of Byron – a completely self-sufficient house set on 100 acres of degraded farmland which he and Helen transformed with new dams and roads and a vigorous regeneration program including planting 30,000 native trees. This was Ian’s way, not just to design buildings but to create a whole environment to be enjoyed.

Ian loved his home life there with Helen and the dogs. He loved working in the garden and observing the wildlife. He loved his many good friends, and the conversations that would invariably continue around the fire-pit late into the night. For all these things, he considered himself fortunate. And then there was architecture. He said “I see myself as having been blessed by an overriding concern, and having the capacity and the opportunity to realise it. Architecture is the essence of my life – it’s been a lifelong act of devotion.”

Diminished in his last years, Ian was lovingly cared for by Helen. He will be sadly missed by her and his children, David, (Kirsten-deceased), Robin, John, James, Christopher and Holly and their partners, and by his grandchildren, Sarah, Felix, Tessa, Archie, Henry, Saskia & Rose.

A memorial service and wake will be held at the Byron Bay Community Centre, at 11am on Friday 14th August, 2015.

 

 

NSW Chapter Manager

 

The NSW Chapter has had a very busy month in the wind down from the recent 2015 NSW Architecture Awards. Preparations are under-way for this year’s Sydney Architecture Festival, organized in collaboration with the Architect’s Registration Board, which this year will be held on 3-5 October. The Festival will continue to enable Sydney’s community to participate in and enjoy the architecture of Sydney – past, present and future – and promote the city as a focal point for quality architecture and debate. Working with Lucy Humphrey and Claire McCaughan of Archrival and John O’Callaghan as the event’s first ever Event Director team, we are developing an exciting public program – details of which will be announced very soon!

We are also pleased to announce we are taking Chapter Council on the road in September in conjunction with the Country Division conference in Bathurst (22-25 September) with the aim of bringing the Institute closer to its members. The Institute’s Networks are also part of this initiative, and network chairs will be attending Chapter Council on a rotational basis. Our first Chapter Council meeting on the road in May with IWAN (Inner West Architects Network) was a great success.

Peter Stutchbury will be delivering his Gold Medal Lecture in Sydney on Tuesday 25 August and also in Newcastle on 28 July. Due to a high demand for tickets we are organizing a larger venue for the Sydney lecture, and invite anyone interested in tickets to contact us on nsw@architecture.com.au to secure a place on our waiting list before further tickets are released. DARCH are also organizing a special EmAGN breakfast with the Gold Medallist for their members on Wednesday 26 August.

 

 

Audrey Braun
NSW Chapter Manager

NSW Chapter President

 

The recently released State of Australian Cities report from the Australian Government reveals that in Sydney, semi-detached and apartment dwellings make up 56% of all new dwellings built over the last decade, whereas in 2001 they accounted for only 35%. Three years ago, apartment construction reached the tipping point where it exceeded the number of new freestanding homes.

This says two important things. Apartment construction is on the rise – and therefore so is density.

As if to confirm the fact, the revised SEPP 65 governing the design of apartments was gazetted three weeks ago. NSW is still the only state in Australia to have its own design legislation mandating the use of architects for this building type.

The impressive crop of entrants to the multi-residential category of this year’s awards proves that our members are up to this privilege and this challenge.

But our potential impact on the improvement of the built environment is much greater than this one building type.

We have the opportunity to use our strategic design skills to help create a much more liveable Sydney.

In the last month I have conducted interviews with the CEOs of two key government agencies, Infrastructure NSW and UrbanGrowth NSW, for the next issue of Architecture Bulletin.

They both told me of the importance of design thinking in making the immense changes underway across the whole metropolitan area. They agree with the Institute that the city needs to be both bigger and better.

UrbanGrowth CEO David Pitchford sees us as his allies in ‘the war against mediocrity,’ while Infrastructure’s Jim Betts quotes his Melbourne experience in proclaiming the importance of keeping the engineers under control if the city is to improve as it grows.

These are strong messages from two key executives guiding Sydney’s growth – and architecture and architects are well placed to work with them in achieving a bigger city that functions better and is also more liveable.
Shaun Carter
NSW President

 

NSW Chapter Manager

 

This Thursday we will host the highly anticipated 2015 NSW Architecture Awards. I invite you to join us and be the first to find out what the winning projects are from across the state this year. The event will be held at the iconic Sydney Town Hall, led by Fenella Kernebone our MC for the evening. Drinks and canapés will be followed by Award presentations, and post-awards there will be live entertainment, further food and a chance to network and mingle with your colleagues. Spaces are filling fast so register ASAP. It promises to be an exciting night!

On Friday 26 June, the NSW Chapter President Shaun Carter, Hannah Burgess (Awards and Events Officer) and I attended the Victorian Chapter Architecture Awards, held at Docklands in Melbourne. Over 750 people attended the evening; it was thrilling to have such an excellent turnout and see how the VIC event was run. We are looking forward to our NSW Awards being bigger and even better than last year!

I am also delighted to announce that our new Communications Officer, Hannah McKissock-Davis, commenced with the NSW Chapter last week. Hannah’s portfolio will be editing Architecture Bulletin and looking after our communications strategy, including lifting our social media presence as a Chapter. We are a full-office complement again and very happy Hannah has joined the NSW Team.

We also welcomed Ramiro Solorzano from the American Institute of Architects to Tusculum last week as part of an international exchange program. Ramiro observed one of our CPD events (Housing Code) and spent time with our CPD Manager, Eoghan Lewis noting how we deliver CPD to the membership. Ramiro was also impressed with the PALS, mentoring and gender equity programs we have implemented here in NSW, and was keen to take back some ideas and recommendations to the AIA.


Audrey Braun
NSW Chapter Manager

2015 NSW Graduate & Student Awards

 

NSW Design Medal

This Award acknowledges excellence in architectural design for a graduate who has completed their studies.

Winners

Jennifer McMaster and Jonathan Donnelly (joint submission) – University of Sydney Museum of Architecture | Utzon Archive

The museum of architecture and Utzon Archive is an accomplished response to a complex architectural brief that presents architecture as both content and artefact. It is a project that engages with the public through its urban responsiveness and through the clarity of organisation and idea.

Conceptually, the new gallery spaces present a clear diagram of organisation that allows the visitor to appreciate the work of Jorn Utzon through the collection and display of the archive material held in separate NSW archives and through the physical representation of his ideas in the building itself. The concept expresses powerful architectural ideas of podium and base walls and enclosure, all covered by a translucent veil that result in an open and approachable public building. The siting and entry to the building along the Ultimo Goods Line enhances the public nature of the new museum and would provide a positive influence to the development of this significant urban renewal project.

The jury was impressed that this team of Jennifer McMaster and Jonathan Donnelly, through working together, has produced a work with great clarity that is more than just a conceptual framework. It is an impressive work that avoids a simplistic approach that just uses a collage of Utzon’s motifs but rather generates a building that has its own unique identity.

Runner Up

Han Yu (Zoey) Chen – UTS
Research centre and museum of the lost art

This project confidently proposes a clever insertion into an existing building in Berlin to accommodate a recently found collection of art that was lost during the Second World War. The gallery and research spaces all have a restraint and have been arranged in a very mature and controlled manner. The architectural approach responds both to the program and the surroundings to deliver a new building that has an identity and presence that respects that artwork it displays.

Commendation

Jason Chen Sheer Goh – UNSW
Homeless Homed (a Newtown project)

This project has a strong sense of social commitment by both bringing awareness to housing issues and adaptively reusing the former Newtown tram sheds. The Jury was impressed by the adaptive reuse strategy that created neighbourhoods within the existing structure, although the appropriateness of the residential mix was questioned. The design creates opportunities for different building typologies with a dense but lively architecture through opening the building to the sky, carving up the space into solid and void, and the clever use of the existing structural grid. It is a thoughtful elegant response with a strong social conscience.

Commendation

Sebastian Fan Shin Tsang – UNSW
Animating Suburbia

Within Sebastian Tsang’s Animating Suburbia: A graphic commentary, water is reintroduced into a liminal space within an outer Sydney suburb as a generator for architectural program. This complex project for the activation of a forgotten suburban edge condition has been resolved through a rigorous and exploratory drawing process that has resulted in a highly original and engaging architectural proposal.


First Degree Design Award

This Award acknowledges excellence in architectural design for a student midway through their studies.

Winner
Alexander Galego – UNSW
Tidal

This project proposes an inhabited bridge at South West Rocks back beach. Its primary function as a local pedestrian link is enhanced by the addition of carefully selected supplementary uses including a café, pool and amenities.

The scheme is conceived as a series of distinct programmatic moments along an architectural promenade. In a careful exploration of the experiential qualities of architecture, the project goes beyond the status quo to develop a series of unique spaces which can be occupied in different ways. Each space explores different levels of enclosure, offering spaces of refuge and others of complete exposure to wind and sun.

A beautifully crafted sectional timber model demonstrates an understanding of timber construction detailing and of Juhani Pallasmaa’s ecological functionalist view of Architecture. The project is clearly designed to respond to the local environment and to enhance the human experience.

The jury was particularly impressed to see a complex sequence of architectural spaces integrated into such a seemingly simple structure. The project demonstrates an understanding of architecture which is greater than the sum of its parts. Structure, form, program and spatial experience have been integrated into a proposal of subtle elegance.

Runner Up
Benjamin Norris – University of Sydney
The Habitable Bridge 1993 – 2004

The Habitable Bridge 1993-2004 reimagines the reconstruction of the Old Bridge of Mostar (Stari Most) on a hypothetical site, embedding an urban farm and bar within the proposal during the process of rebuilding this structure. Within this project, Benjamin Norris combines a detailed understanding of the historical context for the Stari Most with ambitious and ephemeral architecture.

Commendation

Felicity May – University of Sydney
Reclaiming the River

In this project the idea of a habitable bridge has been resolved poetically by Felicity May with a series of elements that interact decisively with the given, hypothetical landform. The field of poles for farming oysters has created a purposeful pattern that demonstrates how architecture can be both practical and artistic.


Digital Innovation Award

This Award acknowledges excellence and innovation in the use of digital media and digital processes and their integration in architectural design or research.

Winner
Victor Martinez-Contreras – UTS
Field Embassy

With the possible exception of parliament houses, few building typologies are so imbued with the evocation of cultural spirit (both as evidenced in the past and projected into the future) as the modern embassy. It is a building type inherently fusing the intangible with the pragmatic, the conceptual with the prosaic and the future with the past. The contemporary embassy must provide a framework for the machinations of diplomacy, cultural interaction and commerce. It must project a confident, welcoming, open countenance while being one of the most overtly and covertly secure environments possible. By its very nature it must be many things to many people.

In coalescing this inherent complexity into a clear conceptual idea, the Victor has utilized a variety of digital tools, each chosen carefully as part of a rigorous exploration of the possibilities that live within the brief’s inherent contradictions. The brief is interpreted through a conceptual gradation of electric fields (representative of layers of high security) interacting with magnetic fields (signifying public spaces and functions). Interactions represented as metadata become the genesis of form within Rhino software. 3d Printing facilitates a process of analysis, interpretation, modulation and iteration, which lead to refinement in the tectonics of the eventual building form. The final digital presentation illustrates a clear relationship between the built form and its generative electromagnetic fields.

The project is awarded first place in the Digital Innovation category not only for its extensive use of digital tools as a means to explore new ways of defining architectural spaces, but for the rigor of its methodology and maturity of its final resolution.

Commendation
Nan Ding and Yiran Hu – University of Sydney
A New Common Framework (Redfern station)

Investigating a new architectural paradigm, this proposal displays an understanding of the relationship between form and brief through its controlled and elegant use of sinuous curves and humanist attention to place making. The jury looks forward to the entrants’ future works as their tectonic awareness develops and matures.

Commendation
Vincent Ping Hei Chung & Pierre-Antonie Marie Maitre – University of Sydney Connect 6 (Redfern station)

A project focused on juxtaposition in its attempt to explore complexity whilst retaining clarity and order. Curvaceous funnels of light / ventilation / circulation contrast with a skeletal roof structure evoking the work of Nervi without the overt rationality. The jury hopes that the authors will maintain their conceptual strength as they interact with the latest iterations of structural and construction technologies.


Structural Innovation Award

This Award acknowledges excellence and innovation in the integration of structure in architectural design.

Winner
Max Hu, Harry K Roland Henshaw-Hill & Hongkai Yuan – University of Sydney
Tri Axial Pavilion

The tri-axial Pavilion is a modular structure created by the combination of three hyperbolic shapes. The structure makes use of a pure structurally efficient form to generate an interesting, practical and modular architectural form. The structure could be used to create shade and interest in parks and other public meeting places.

The proposal is innovative in its journey to create the final structure. The team started by investigating structural forms with physical models, stretching fabric to create a variety of hyper shapes. After selecting a preferred shape the team then constructed a full-size model of the shape, experimenting with materials and construction techniques. The next step is via a number of digital tools where the final structure is parametrically form-found using software including Weaverbird, Karamba, Grasshopper and Rhinoceros. The final step was the creation of large scale plywood model of the shapes joined together to form the pavilion.

The design process is interesting as there has been innovation at each stage of the process. That is, the design has evolved as a result of each of the steps to the final structure. Even in the final stage the team introduced a ribbed construction with gaps in the fabric to play with the introduction of light to the form.

Runner Up
James Vlismas – UTS
Fuji Children’s Museum

The Fuji Children’s Museum is an extension to the existing steel and in-situ concrete Fuji Kindergarten building. The designers have carefully thought through the building and its context to arrive at an elegant and efficient building structure that is highly sustainable. The design has explored a number of structural strategies appropriate for its context including:

  • Use of a modular timber structure that is responsive to earthquake load.
  • Use of repeating elements that maximise the potential for prefabrication
  • Use of interlocking elements to simplify column and beam connections, maximising the structural continuity and efficiency.

 

UNIVERSITY AWARDS

Masters Graduate of the Year

Awarded to the most outstanding graduate from the Masters program. An award given for each NSW school of architecture.

Michael Ford       University of Technology, Sydney
Philippa Marston       University of NSW
Jennifer McMaster       University of Sydney
Noel Yaxley       University of Newcastle


First Degree/Bachelor Graduate of the Year

Awarded to the most outstanding student graduating from the first degree Bachelor program. An award given for each NSW school of architecture.

Lucas MacMillan       University of Technology, Sydney
Nailah Masagos       University of NSW
Sukrit Sukasam       University of Sydney
Jake Kellow       University of Newcastle


Construction and Practice

Awarded to the student who receives the highest aggregate marks in the discipline areas of Construction and Practice. An award given for each NSW school of architecture.

Jeffrey Baikie       University of Technology, Sydney
Menglan Li       University of NSW
Karl Dela Torre       University of Sydney
Noel Yaxley       University of Newcastle


History and Theory

Awarded to the student who receives the highest aggregate marks in the discipline areas of History and Theory. An award given for each NSW school of architecture.

Adrian Taylor       University of Technology, Sydney
Sarah Sim       University of NSW
Rida Khan       University of Sydney
Timothy Burke       University of Newcastle