ArchitectureAu Asks the Melbourne architectural researcher and advocate, “Our building code ensures occupants’ safety, amenity, health and accessibility – what about their sense of belonging?”

This years Women in Design at Design Tasmania brings together leading female designers across all design disciplines.

Just as Kerstin Thompson Architects’ built projects revolve around interstitial spaces, Thompson’s cultural contributions have influenced “the grey zones of invention and possibility,” countering myths and opening up spaces for discussion. Parlour…

Kerstin Thompson Architects’ Queensberry Street studio, taken for the monograph Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People and Place by Leon van Schaik (Thames and Hudson, 2021). Image: Ying Ang Early in 2001, Kerstin Thompson presented the…

After almost a decade, the reintroduction of the AA Prize for Unbuilt Work recognizes the essential and ongoing role of speculative design. Justine Clark, editor of Architecture Australia during the prize’s previous iteration, reflects on the…

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.

This is the first of a series of posts exploring the preliminary finding of the survey Work & Wellbeing – Australian architecture & the COVID-19 pandemic. More detailed analysis and commentary will follow. We had an amazing turnout – 2082 responses…

Architect, researcher, writer and teacher Madhavi Desai reflects on her feminist awakening, the founding of the Women Architects Forum and the importance of writing the women architects of India into the history books. My father was a medical doctor…

In a wide-ranging interview, Collective Architecture’s Jude Barber discusses her early experience of being labelled an ‘extreme egalitarian’, the value of experimentation and diverse work, the benefits of employee ownership, and the need for us all…

Renowned UK writer, researcher, educator and unapologetic activist Jos Boys takes us on a journey from Covent Garden squatting to Matrix, from academic life to tearing down ableist stereotypes with The DisOrdinary Architecture Project. I fell into…

Article by Tili Bensley-Nettheim In recognition of eight years of research advocacy and action toward achieving gender parity in architecture, Parlour has been awarded the Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize. The Leadership in Gender…

For the first time in more than a decade, the Australasian Student Architecture Congress returned to New Zealand, gathering in October in Christchurch with 75 delegates, 21 speakers, 32 scooters, nine separate venues and, surprisingly, zero arrests.…

Canadian-born and raised, London-based, RIBA-award-winning architect Alison Brooks sat down with Justine Clark for a fascinating discussion about her early career, the value of professional recognition, urban housing project work, the challenge of…

Koning Eizenberg Architecture co-founder and Australian Institute of Architects 2019 Gold Medal winner Julie Eizenberg joined Justine Clark to reflect on inspirational teachers, the creative potential of being an outsider, and the critical role of…

“Social responsibility is not a ‘feel good, do good’ add on.” – Julie Eizenberg “Architecture is a social medium.” This simple statement underpins all of the work of Koning Eizenberg Architecture and its founding directors, Julie Eizenberg and Hank…

Implementing the Better Placed policy for heritage buildings, sites, and precincts The Design Guide for Heritage was officially launched on 30 January 2019. Developed collaboratively between the Heritage Council of NSW and the NSW Government…

Article by Online Editor The winning design for a new History and Interpretation Centre has been unveiled by the Hon. Elise Archer MP at the Cascades Female Factory Historic Site in South Hobart. The architectural design competition launched in March…

Parlour editor Justine Clark reflects on the organization's progress and 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…

Article by Online Editor ADR shines a light on some of the women who’ve been blazing a trail on the Australian design scene. This is by no means an exhaustive list; simply a small snapshot of what is a great number of influential Australian female…

Article by Online Editor Above: Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the first licensed female architects in the world. Image courtesy Parlour/National Library of Australia PIC/9929/2046. Parlour has announced the launch of Marion’s List, a new public…