Architect, urban designer and educator Helen Lochhead has been elected president of the Australian Institute of Architects at a meeting of the Institute’s national council and board.
Lochhead, who has been a member of the Institute’s national council since 2013, will take up the post of president elect on 15 May, when incoming national president Clare Cousins takes over from current president Richard Kirk.
Kirk will replace outgoing immediate past president Ken Maher.
Lochhead has been the dean of the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Built Environment since February 2016. In January 2018, she was appointed chair of the Sydney South Planning Panel.
Before her appointment at UNSW, Lochhead served as the Deputy NSW Government Architect from 2007 to 2016 and was director of strategic developments at the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.
Lochhead was previously an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney. She has also taught internationally at institutions including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University and the New York Institute of Technology.
She was the winner of the Marion Mahony Griffin Prize at the 2013 NSW Architecture Award and the co-curator of the 2017 National Architecture Conference.
