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Edgars Creek House by Breathe Architecture.

Architeam Awards finalists announced

Architeam Cooperative has announced the finalists of its 2020 Architeam Awards for small practices.

The Association of Consulting Architects' fourth "pulse check" survey seeks to understand the effect of the 2020 federal budget on the architecture industry.

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.

Conrad Gargett managing director Lawrence Toaldo.

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.

Some  64.87 percent of survey respondents have had projects stalled.

Uncertainty hurting architecture industry as more jobs lost

An Australian Institute of Architects survey finds widespread cessation of projects and rising unemployment among architects.

Sydney CBD.
Discussion | Linda Cheng | 7 Jul 2020

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
Discussion | Howard Tanner | 2 Jul 2020

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.

Olivia Hyde.

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.

More than 70 percent of survey respondents say the federal government's wage subsidy prevented staff from being made redundant or stood down.

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.

The economic bite from the sudden onset of the coronavirus pandemic has already started to take a toll on architects.

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.

Karen Alcock, director of MA Architects.
People | Marcus Baumgart | 2 Jun 2020

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.

The Association of Consulting Architects' third “pulse check” survey seeks to further gauge the changes to employment arrangements, including the level of reduced hours and/or pay.

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.

A newly funded major research project will investigate the effects of architectural work culture on the wellbeing of practitioners and students.

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.

Nik Karalis, CEO of Woods Bagot, working from home.
Discussion | Linda Cheng | 6 May 2020

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.

The architects' union is launching a drive to attract new members as the coronavirus crisis wreaks havoc on the industry, leaving workers vulnerable.

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.

Peggy Deamer, founder of The Architecture Lobby.
People | Josh Harris | 6 Mar 2020

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.

Architectus, Australia's biggest practice on the WA100, was recently appointed to design a new $180 million medical research building for Flinders University in Adelaide.

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.

The problems of architects' diminishing fees stems from the nature of unpriced risk, says John Held.
Discussion | John Held | 19 Jun 2018

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.

Architects should collectively bargain for minimum fee rates, says Shaun Carter.
Discussion | Shaun Carter | 13 Jun 2018

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?

Day one of the DAPr Symposium at the Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University.
Discussion | Nicholas Skepper | 19 Sep 2017

‘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’
Industry News | Linda Cheng | 30 Jun 2017

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.

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