Do you think the Architecture Awards judging is fair?

Hot on the heels of our recent State Architecture Awards night, the SA Chapter Council has been considering your feedback concerning the awards judging process. Recently we surveyed all the other Chapters to compare how we performed against their results.

This year we worked hard to get the Awards presentation night back to where our members wanted to see it. The feedback confirms we got it right. We are now turning our attention to the jury process to ensure this is as effective as possible and in line with member expectations.

A task force commissioned by the Council met this week for the purpose of reviewing our processes and comparing these and our judging performance against the 7 other Chapters around the country. The group included Steve Grieve (SA President), Nick Tridente (Immediate Past President), Chris Watkins (2013 Awards Director), Peter Dungey and David Brown (Past Jury Chairs) and staff.

The group will be making recommendations for some fine tuning of our processes to the State Council at the end of this month.  One interesting fact is that 50% of all entries in SA received an award. This is consistent with other chapters where the proportion of awards given increases as the chapter reduces in size.

We will be talking to members in the near future about the outcomes of the research and offering a clearer explanation of how and why the judging process occurs.

– Richard Hosking, SA Chapter Manager