Neville Quarry
Architectural
Education
Prize
About the Prize
Neville Quarry Architectural education prize
The Architectural Education Prize recognises the significance of architectural education in the promotion and improvement of the built environment. The Prize recognises an outstanding contribution in architectural education in one or more areas of teaching, scholarship, research, leadership and community engagement in both the higher education and wider community forums.
The Prize is a cash prize of $2000, certificate and medallion.
Nominees must be financial members of the Institute.
2025 Entries closed Wednesday 31 July 2024 at 11.59pm (AEST).
more about this prize
The Prize is awarded annually to those who have made a significant contribution to architectural education.
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Nominations are via an online entry form
Find out more about what the judges are looking for.
Congratulations to 2021 joint winners Professor John Macarthur and Associate Professor Conrad Haman.
Eligibility
Who can participate
The Prize is awarded annually although the jury has discretion not to make an award where there is no nomination of appropriate merit in any year.
The Prize maintains an emphasis on significant contributions to architectural education and recognises an outstanding career within academia.
Individuals and/or groups of individuals who have contributed to architectural education in Australia can be nominated or self-nominate for this prize.
Nominees must be financial members of the Institute.
Entries close Wednesday 31 July 2024 at 11.59pm (AEST).
Nominate
About the Process
The online entry form must be completed with the following details:
- A statement of excellence addressing one or more of the selection criteria (teaching, research, community engagement, scholarship, leadership). The statement should be a maximum of 1 x A4 page and be in a format suitable for publication.
- A curriculum vitae of no more than two A4 pages referencing the nominee’s/applicant’s educational qualifications, career history and teaching positions and experience (where applicable).
- Contact information of two referees/nominators.
- An image of yourself or the group.
judging criteria
what the Judges look for
The Prize is awarded on the basis of demonstrated national or international peer recognition of a contribution to education in any or all of the following categories:
- teaching
- scholarship
- research
- leadership
- community engagement.
2024 Winner
Congratulations SIMON ANDERSON
Simon Anderson’s contribution to architectural education over a
34-year-long career is undeniable. His dedication to his students
and their learning, alongside a substantial publication record, has
made him one of Australia’s preeminent architectural educators.
He has mentored countless emerging practitioners in the process.
From 2010 to 2016, Anderson served as the dean of the
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts at the
University of Western Australia, overseeing the transition of the
faculty into the UWA School of Design. In this role, he pioneered
the development of the practitioner–academic model of university
tenure, reflecting his own substantial contribution across the
domains of practice, teaching and research. An internationally
cited academic, his commitment to the profession extends to aid
work and advising the government of New South Wales.
As well as being an accomplished professional, Anderson
cares deeply about the careers and wellbeing of others. It is this
eminent and sustained devotion to the profession that makes him
the worthy recipient of the 2024 Neville Quarry Architectural
Education Prize.
Jury:
Stuart Tanner FRAIA (Chair) | National President, Australian Institute of Architects | Tanner Architects TM
John Doyle | AASA President | RMIT University
Kirstie Coultas FRAIA | National Education Committee Chair | And Architecture
Sue Savage LFRAIA | Queensland University of Technology
Thomas Huntingford | SONA President, Australian Institute of Architects
2023 Winner
Michael Mossman
Michael Mossman, a Kuku Yalanji man from Far North Queensland, is an outstanding practitioner, teacher and leader whose exemplary commitment to architectural education is of great benefit to students, practitioners and the profession.
As Associate Dean Indigenous at the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Mossman is committed to Indigenizing the architectural curriculum within the university as well as on a broader national platform through the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia. His extensive interactions and collaborations with colleagues and community representatives are contributing substantially to the architectural education landscape in a critical and expansive manner.
Mossman’s exploration of the intersections between cultures via design discourse is fresh and invigorating, brings density to the educational conversation and offers Australian society a deeper and more authentic understanding of belonging and relationship to home. Through intensive interactions, his students learn to walk with community in a first-hand, engaged practice; this genuine, collaborative and immersive approach opens them to a dynamic and participatory way of learning on Country. Mossman’s engrossing and inclusive attitude allows for cross-fertilization between students, community and the institution.
By identifying First Nations cultural considerations as an agent for structural change within our profession, Mossman is fundamentally shifting awareness in design thinking in architecture and placemaking. His work is invaluable to the profession and to ensuring that future Australian architects are educated in a way that considers our influence on, and responsibility to, place.
Jury:
Shannon Battisson FRAIA (Chair) | National President, Australian Institute of Architects | The Mill: Architecture + Design
John Doyle | AASA President | RMIT University
Lisa Moore FRAIA | National Education Committee Chair | And Architecture
Stuart Tanner FRAIA | Tanner Architects
Nicole Mesquita-Mendes | SONA President, Australian Institute of Architects
2021 joint winner Professor John Macarthur
Professor John Macarthur’s educational contributions through research, mentorship and intellectual leadership reflect over thirty years of championing new architectural insights. His publications (over 170) bridge the academic and wider culture of architectural practice through heritage, criticism and design. His masterful analysis of historical and philosophical ideas about visual perception, aesthetics, beauty and the picturesque defines both professional and popular views of architecture.
In 1990 John established Queensland University’s Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History (ATCH) research centre, ensuring rigorous recording and study of Queensland architecture, its climatic and regional character. As lead investigator for the Hot Modernism research project, his archive of modern Queensland architecture won the 2017 National Trust John Herbert Award.
John’s leadership, teaching and PhD supervision have influenced a generation of Australian students, practitioners and researchers. Dean and Head of the UQ Architecture School (2009-13), he received an Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision (2011), and a Commendation for Teaching Excellence (1999).
Broad community involvements attest to his public and professional influence, including Australian Academy of Humanities Fellow, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) Research Evaluation Committees member, ARC (Australian Research Council) College of Experts member, past President and Life Fellow of SAHANZ (Australia and NZ Society of Architectural Historians).
An insightful storyteller, John connects ideas across centuries and disciplines drawing unique and insightful analogies between art, philosophy, history and architecture. He generously, eloquently and masterfully presents complex scholarly revelations with good humour, humility, and a munificent sharing of knowledge.
2021 joint winner Associate Professor Conrad Haman
Associate Professor Conrad Hamann has changed how we understand Australian architecture, challenging the romantic and sometimes condescending view of our colonial forebears to reveal unruly, disobedient, sometimes parochial thinking foundational to a local culture of architecture for and of this place.
Conrad has been awarded numerous Australian Research Council grants, including the ARC Large Grant, ‘An Unfinished Experiment in Living: Australian Houses 1950-65’. He is mentor across all levels of staff and students as well as supporting emerging architects and historians. His work at Lovell Chen testifies to his profound contribution to Australian built heritage.
He was co-Creative Director of the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Australian Pavilion and co-editor of Issue Magazine. He served on editorial boards of Transition Magazine, Fabrications, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. His advocacy for design has seen him talk on ABC, 3RRR, Radio National and numerous public forums.
Through his writings, lectures and teaching he colourfully renders Australian architecture in all its glorious specificity and differences. It is impossible to un-hear his tone, pause, mode of delivery when witnessing his lectures. Legendary is the name for these lectures where each sentence is a gem, and each detour seemingly essential to understanding the bigger contention. He illuminates the idiosyncratic and the aberrant, individuated by the personalities and situations of our various cities, especially his hometown Melbourne.
2019: congratulations to Vivian mitsogianni
Professor Vivian Mitsogianni has excelled in all areas of academic life – teaching, research and leadership. More distinctly, she has sought ways to combine these fields of endeavour. Her teaching and research have converged seamlessly with an ideas-led architectural practice and been deeply informed by her own personal explorations in design since she established M@Studio Architects almost two decades ago. This practice won the inaugural competition for the NGV architecture commission which, when realized, attracted critical acclaim and public approval.
Vivian has played a much greater role at RMIT University than that of an exemplary architect for students to look up to. As head of architecture since 2013, she continues to foster opportunities for other adventurous architectural studios to teach in the RMIT program or to themselves become students and embark on design-based research. She has been a core member of the supervisory team for the RMIT practice-based PhD program, and her doctoral students have included luminaries of the profession in Australia and abroad, including one of her referees for this award.
She is a powerful voice for design and education, as demonstrated by her work in co-editing the 2015 book Studio Futures: Changing Architectural Trajectories in Architectural Education. Lastly, Vivian has proved a compelling manager, winning the RMIT vice-chancellor’s leadership award for “progressing the discipline with authority and humility while helping others to be the best self they can be.” – Jury Citation
