Tag: Practice
Architeam Awards finalists announced
Architeam Cooperative has announced the finalists of its 2020 Architeam Awards for small practices.
ACA’s latest ‘pulse check’ survey focuses on federal budget
The latest survey seeks to understand the effect the federal budget will have on architecture practices.
McConnel Smith and Johnson Architects merges with Conrad Gargett
The merger sees the entirety of the McConnel Smith and Johnson Architects team retained within Conrad Gargett’s Sydney office.
Uncertainty hurting architecture industry as more jobs lost
An Australian Institute of Architects survey finds widespread cessation of projects and rising unemployment among architects.
How are architects responding to the climate and biodiversity emergency?
We asked 10 industry leaders about how the architecture industry can and should respond to the climate crisis.
Lessons from the global financial crisis
Howard Tanner, former national president of the Australian Institute of Architects, reflects on his experience running a practice through financial crises.
Three women appointed professors of practice at Sydney uni
Olivia Hyde, Kate Goodwin and Qianyi Lim are the first professors of practice to be appointed by the architecture school.
Job Keeper saves architects but stimulus package not enough
More than 70 percent of survey respondents say the federal government’s wage subsidy prevented staff from being made redundant or stood down.
How architects fared in the last recession
With a recession upon us, we dig through the Architecture Australia archives to find a state by state breakdown of how architects fared in the last recession of the early 1990s.
Wisdom of youth: MA Architects
A practice growing out of its “teenage years,” MA Architects is ready to evolve its language and move on to new things.
Survey seeks updated ‘pulse check’ of architecture industry
The Association of Consulting Architects is conducting a third “pulse check” survey of how architectural practices are faring with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mental health in architecture research project receives funding
A newly funded major research project, led by Naomi Stead, will investigate the effects of architectural work culture on the wellbeing of practitioners and students.
Negotiating an ‘undefined and uncontained’ crisis
Woods Bagot CEO Nik Karalis speaks with ArchitectureAU editor Linda Cheng about his global firm’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Architects’ union launches COVID-19 survey
The union representing architectural workers in Australia has launched a survey to better understand the effect COVID-19 is having on their levels of employment.
Architects are workers: The Architecture Lobby’s Peggy Deamer
Architect and Yale professor Peggy Deamer wants us to see architecture as work, and architects as workers.
Australia’s biggest practices shed staff, echoing global shrinkage
The World Architecture 100 ranks some of the world’s biggest practices by number of architects employed and revenue.
Fee redemption: A mutually assured future
In response to Shaun Carter’s call to reintroduce a fee guide for architects, John Held says the problem runs much deeper than continuous fee cutting.
Fee MAD-ness (mutually assured destruction): an existential crisis
Architects are practising in an environment of outrageously low fees and cutthroat fee gazumping. Shaun Carter asks in this boom time why have architects managed to slash their fees in a desperate race to the bottom?
‘How do you do?’: The value of practice-based research
Nicholas Skepper reviews the 2017 Practice in Research/Research in Practice symposium in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
NSWARB hands out largest-ever fine for architect’s ‘unsatisfactory professional conduct’
The case of an architect fined and suspended for “serious and sustained” breaches of the professional code of conduct suggests a more widespread practice of non-compliance.