Justine Clark is an architecture editor, writer, critic and researcher. Educated at the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington, she is a former editor of Architecture Australia.
She is also a honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. With Naomi Stead, Karen Burns, Sandra Kaji-O’Grady, Julie Willis, Amanda Roan, Gillian Whitehouse and Susan Savage, she is a chief investigator on the Australian Research Council-funded project Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work, and Leadership.
She is the editor of Parlour: women, equity, architecture, and recently began writing architectural criticism for The Age.
Justine Clark's Latest contributions
Kerstin Thompson: Negotiating the in-between
Justin Clark reflects on Kerstin Thompson’s generous contribution to professional and public culture.
AA Prize for Unbuilt Work revisited
AA Prize for Unbuilt Work recognizes the essential and ongoing role of speculative design. Justine Clark, former editor of Architecture Australia reflects on the benefits of this kind of endeavour.
Architecture’s untapped opportunities to maximize advantage
The world has shifted into uncharted waters, and there is an even greater need to apply the architecture profession’s collective intelligence to the problems that face our communities and countries.
The sticky social: Koning Eizenberg
The Australian Institute of Architects 2019 Gold Medallists Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg combine a compelling ethical position with wit, curiosity, ambition and empathy, explains Justine Clark.
Parlour and gender equity in Australian architecture: Where to from here?
Parlour editor Justine Clark reflects on the organization’s development since the publication of research in 2014 that laid bare the state of gender inequity in Australian architecture, turns an eye to the future, and explains how you can help.
Refined bones: Bendigo Library Redevelopment
MGS Architects’ revitalization project results in a contemporary landmark that makes a worthy contribution to the urban fabric of Bendigo.
Where do all the women go?
Justine Clark reveals the results of two Parlour surveys into women’s (and men’s) participation in architecture.
Atherton Gardens Social Housing
A Melbourne public housing project by McCabe Architects and Bird de la Coeur Architects.
Kerstin Thompson: “it’s about how people live”
The highly awarded houses of Kerstin Thompson Architects age well, and are better for being filled with everyday stuff.
Transform: Altering the future of architecture
Discussion day about gender, agency and the future of architecture.