The Australian Institute of Architects is pleased to announce the jury for the 2024 National Architecture Awards.
The panel consists of five accomplished individuals with varied backgrounds, each contributing a distinct viewpoint to evaluate Australia’s most esteemed architecture awards.
The jury members are Stuart Tanner LFRAIA (Chair) (TAS), Yun Nie Chong RAIA (WA), Paul Owen FRAIA (QLD), Jemima Retallack RAIA (NSW) and Naomi Stead (VIC)
Tanner said “I am extremely fortunate to be chairing a jury of such esteemed colleagues from around our country, all of whom will bring insight and depth to the deliberations. I look forward with enthusiasm to working with such a great quorum.”
The winners will be announced at the 2024 National Architecture Awards in Adelaide on 7 November 2024 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
The National Jury will be commencing their National Jury Tour in mid-July and finishing in early August.
STUART TANNER LFRAIA (CHAIR) | dIRECTOR, TANNER ARCHITECTS
Based in Hobart, Stuart Tanner has practiced as an architect in his own firm for the last 23 years, with a strong focus on design integrity and sustainability. Tanner Architects is recognised nationally and internationally, through awards and publications.
Stuart has been a member of the Institute since 1993 and an active participant on various Tasmanian Chapter committees from 2002, namely the Awards Committee, Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee and more recently Chairman of the Practice Committee, prior to undertaking the role of Tasmanian Chapter President. In 2023, Tanner was elected as the National President.
Stuart is committed to the architecture profession and believes in strong advocacy for the RAIA and its members, including Emerging members. His depth of experience and balanced, positive communication is key to his approach on built environment issues and policy strategy.
His key areas of interest include advocacy for high quality design outcomes for our public buildings and infrastructure, elevating design literacy in society, equality in our workplaces and responsibility toward our place on the planet as a species.
YUN NIE CHONG RAIA | FOUNDER AND ARCHITECT, NIE AND CO ARCHITECTS
Yun Nie is an architect and founder of Nie and Co Architects, a practice focused on small scale residential projects that are informed by the specifics of place, and the relationship between landscape and built form.
The practice has been recognised by the AIA most recently in 2022, with an award for residential architecture.
Having completed her architectural studies at the University of Western Australia, Yun Nie joined a landscape architecture practice based in Singapore. She worked on projects throughout South East Asia and this experience was formative in developing a design philosophy that seeks to establish a holistic design response to constructed and natural environments. On returning to Australia, Yun Nie worked in a variety of scales and typologies in architecture before founding her own practice.
Yun Nie has served on a number of WA RAIA Award juries as a member and chair.
She is an active member in the design community and has a passion for all aspects of design and craft.
PAUL OWEN FRAIA | FOUNDER AND ARCHITECT, OWEN ARCHITECTURE
Paul Owen is a Brisbane based architect and founder of Owen Architecture, a small practice creating buildings founded in the idea of trusting in the ordinary.
Since 2003 Paul’s work has received over thirty state and national architecture awards … most notably the Robin Dods awards for Queensland House of the year in 2005 and 2016, and Don Roderick Award for Heritage in and the John Dalton Award for Brisbane Building of the year.
Paul’s work has been included in exhibitions at GOMA, The Queensland Museum, The Brisbane Powerhouse and the Evoke Regional Conference, Townsville.
Paul has written for several national publications and has been invited to speak on architecture in Australia, New Zealand and Portugal.
JEMIMA RETALLACK RAIA | DIRECTOR, RETALLACK THOMPSON
Jemima Retallack is a director of Retallack Thompson, a Sydney-based architecture office formed with Mitchell Thompson in 2016. The practice is interested in creating timeless and enduring architecture, with a focus on the human experience and connections with landscape and place. Retallack Thompson’s work ranges across private residential projects, small-scale commercial and public works – including the 2017 NGV Architecture Commission.
A graduate of the University of New South Wales, Jemima is the recipient of a Board of Architects Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship and has been a jury member for the NSW AIA Awards’ ‘Residential Alterations and Additions’ and ‘Small Projects’ categories. Through both her practice and research, Jemima has an interest in examining the housing issues facing contemporary cities. In 2022 she was co-curator for The Architecture Symposium: Reset which questioned concepts of “home” and “housing”.
NAOMI STEAD | PROFESSOR, RMIT UNIVERSITY
Professor Naomi Stead is Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. With a long commitment to research-based advocacy in architecture, she was a co-founder of Parlour – now an internationally-recognized organization advocating for gender equity in the profession – and led the initial Australian Research Council project which underpinned it. More recently she led a major investigation of mental health and wellbeing among architecture students and practitioners. She has co-edited six books, including the award-winning Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research (Princeton Architectural Press 2019) with Janina Gosseye and Deborah van der Plaat; and After the Australian Ugliness (NGV & Thames and Hudson, 2020) with Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin, and Megan Patty. She was Contributing Editor to Architecture Australia (2005-2009), Editor of Architectural Theory Review (2011-2013), President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia & New Zealand (2017-2019), Head of Architecture at Monash University (2018-2020), and a Board Member of Open House Melbourne (2020-2023). She is widely published as an architecture critic – including currently for The Saturday Paper. In 2023 she was (state) winner of the Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture (UniSA) and a PhD (UQ).
