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The Australian Institute of Architects works in the belief that everyone benefits from good architecture. Good design is not something to be reserved for a wealthy few. Our regional towns profit from highly considered built environments as much as ou

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During the final throes of organizing a Design Speaks symposium co-curated by Kerstin Thompson and Phillip Arnold, I received a call from the Institute with the name of the 2023 Gold Medallist. “I think you’ll be happy,” I was told. And I was – Kerst

Being present in a place requires a stillness that feels like a luxury in our busy lives. It requires us to enact deep listening, to practise ngara – to listen, to think, to feel. In that listening, we can find Country, even in the deeply urban space

The train stopped on Peter Muller’s farm. No platform, just a track to Glenrock, a Georgian mansion with fluted sandstone Doric columns that Muller started renovating in 1964. I was 14 and carried a roll of drawings to receive a few hours of his tute

Australian architecture has lost one of its quietly brilliant changemakers. Les Clarke was a born pioneer. He was also a skilled masterplanner, a thoughtful friend, an unconventional problem-solver, and an encouraging mentor. He gave hundreds of Aust

Books devoted to a single building are rare things. If written with critical acumen and poise, if beautifully illustrated and handsomely designed, they become, for me at least, rather like a favourite biography, something that one returns to again an

(COUNTRY) Wadawurrung The pleasure of camping comes from the simple things – some food, a shelter, connection to nature and the ability to switch off from the pressures of contemporary life. On multi-day hikes, rudimentary huts along the way might af

GXN is a vocal advocate for greater circularity in built environments. The group led the design of Circle House, which is Denmark’s first circular social housing project – 90 percent of its building materials are intended for future re-use. GXN also

The Gold Medal is the Australian Institute of Architects’ highest honour. It recognizes distinguished service by architects who have designed or executed buildings of high merit, produced work of great distinction resulting in the advancement of arch

Assertive and respectful, measured but rich – these are ways we can see Kerstin Thompson’s work with existing buildings. All of these projects, going back to the mid-1990s, have been guided by a dogged pursuit of what a site and building can do. Whil

In November 2022, Kerstin Thompson curated a Design Speaks symposium called “A Broader Landscape” alongside Phillip Arnold.1 The curators asked how architects understand the word “landscape,” and how else they might understand it. The symposium drew

This milestone, and the body of work and approach to practice that it acknowledges, is within the context of a life lived through autonomies and partnerings, influences of others both personal and professional: a father’s intellectual curiosity, a mo