The Australian Institute of Architects Fellowships are given to members who have demonstrated a significant contribution to the architecture profession beyond architecture practice. It is our pleasure to announce that Craig Rosevear has been named a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Craig graduated in 1989 and was awarded best graduate in architecture from the University of Tasmania. Following this, he worked in architecture in Hobart and London until starting his own practice in 1997.
His first house, the Gough House, won an Award for Houses in the 1997 Tasmanian Architecture Awards, and today is regarded as a seminal piece of Tasmanian modernist architecture. Since that beginning, Craig, along with his various collaborators including earlier Leigh Woolley, and more recently Martin Stevenson, has been exploring an architecture characterised as rational and modern with and emphasis on structural clarity, material expression and fine detailing.
His status as a practitioner on the national stage was established in 2001 with recognition at the Institute’s NSW Architecture Awards, where he received The Wilkinson Award for Houses for the Archer House, and more recently in 2016, receiving The Eleanor Cullis-Hill Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) at the National Architecture Awards for Jenny’s House, in Battery Point.
The natural development of Craig’s (along with Martin’s) practice, Rosevear Stevenson, sees them engaging in increasingly larger and more complex projects outside the realm of the single residential sphere, and doing so with a similar rationale and commitment as evidenced in their finer grained domestic work. Examples of these projects include The Ether Building, MONA, 2005 (Award for Commercial Architecture, 2006 Tasmanian Architecture Awards, and a Commendation for Commercial Architecture at the 2006 National Architecture Awards), the Port Arthur Historic Site Visitors Centre, 2017 (Commendation for Public Architecture, 2018 Tasmanian Architecture Awards) with JAWS Architects, and more recently the Murdolo Apartments, 2023 (Award for Heritage, 2024 Tasmanian Architecture Awards).
As an extension of practice, Craig has collaborated with furniture maker Stuart Houghton to design and produce a number of unique furniture pieces that have been exhibited interstate and in Scandinavia, and recognised for their design excellence by inclusion as part of the Design Tasmania Wood Collection.
Craig has been an Institute member for more than 25 years. In parallel to his own architectural practice Craig has demonstrated significant commitment to the local profession, as a tutor at the school of architecture and to our local chapter as a long-serving member of the Awards Committee.
In 2021, Craig was elected to the position of Tasmanian Chapter President. While strongly advocating for advancement of the profession, the consultative and thoughtful manner that he brought to the role were characteristics of Craig’s tenure. Despite “practicing quietly”, in continuing to pursue work of exacting quality he serves as a role model for practice. Craig has shown significant commitment to the profession, has an impressive legacy of completed work, is held in high respect within our chapter, and has a reputation as an architect of outstanding calibre.
Congratulations, Craig.
