The SA Chapter Council held its third meeting on Monday 30 May. A summary of the meeting is available for members below:
• Institute CEO Jennifer Cunich attended the meeting and provided the Council with an overview of the recent AGM meeting, IT system updates and meetings held with the other Chapter Councils over the past three weeks she has been in the role. Click here to read more from the CEO.
• A number of suitable options for the new SA Chapter premises have been inspected and the Council supported a proposal for the National Council June meeting. A reference group is being established to progress the selection process.
• The Council was informed that the National Seminar Series (NSS) will longer be held live in SA due to poor attendance, which makes these events financially unviable. Chapter Manager Nicolette Di Lernia is discussing alternative delivery methods for the NSS events in the Chapter with the National CPD Coordinator. David and Nicolette will also be organising a meeting with the Architects Board of SA to discuss CPD in South Australia.
• Chapter President David Homburg has attended multiple meetings and events over the past month, these include:
• meetings with the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Department of State Development, Government Architects Network Australia, NSW Architects Board and the Office for Design and Architecture SA
• workshops with the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure regarding medium density design guidelines,
• Adelaide Design Alliance activities including a meeting with the City of Charles Sturt and a meeting with potential Chinese aged care developers for the Australia China Aged Care Consortium with Walter Brooke and Swanbury Penglase Architects
• attendance at events including the Adelaide Design Alliance, President’s Breakfast and Co-Opertition
• judging for the Gavin Walkley Memorial Grant in Architecture and Emerging Architect Prize.
• The Council had a discussion about the outcomes from the lunch with the Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis as outlined in the Chapter President’s article, on 30 May 2016 (click here). This meeting involved members from HASSELL, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Swanbury Penglase, Woods Bagot, Greenway Architects, Thomson Rossi, ARM Architecture and DPTI. The Council endorsed the forming of a working group to advise and formulate recommendations to the Industry Participation Advocate Ian Nightingale.
• The focus of media engagement over the past month has been to profile individual architects, as a way to put a ‘face to architecture’ in South Australia. This has involved direct submissions to the Sunday Mail Home Magazine’s My Place feature, and the City Messenger’s Eating Out column. These opportunities provide a very broad audience for our members to talk about how accessible and relevant design is to the way we live, work and play; and architects as important members and contributors to our society, with a particular focus on residential design and the City. The interviews will be published throughout the year. The Iconic Buildings in Adelaide segments on Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff, 891 ABC continues to have a very positive response with listeners.
• Standing reports were given by EmAGN, SONA, and the Planning Reform, Export (China), Education, Residential and Communications task groups.
SA Chapter Council
Chapter President
David Homburg, HASSELL
Immediate Past President
Steve Grieve FRAIA, Grieve Gillett Andersen
Chapter Council members
Vanessa Amodeo, SkyCity Expansion Project
Sally Bolton, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
David Brown, BB Architects
Anthony Coupe, Mulloway Studio
Tony Giannone, Tectvs
Adam Hannon, Cox Architecture
Sean Humphries, Black Rabbit Architecture + Interiors
Eddy Lukac, Sole Practitioner & Archicentre
Leah Salamon, wiltshire + swain
Dino Vrynios, Grieve Gillett Andersen
EmAGN Chair
Candy Aung, Grieve Gillett Andersen
SONA representatives
Jordan Bails, University of SA
Chantelle Fry, University of Adelaide