Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media

The Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media is Australia’s most prestigious media award for journalists, editors, producers and event organisers working in the field of architecture and design. It is an annual award to encourage and to recognise media discussion of architecture.

Mark Healey Jury chair Chris Godsell RAIA RIBA Juror

Kirsten Day PhD RAIA Juror

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Advocacy Award

Robin Boyd Foundation Virtual Tour Collection – Walsh Street, Greg Burgess Studio & Manning Clark House – Robin Boyd Foundation

The Robin Boyd Foundation Virtual Tour Collection presents an engaging and accessible platform to explore a range of significant architectural buildings and spaces and gain fascinating insight into the lives of the people who create and inhabit them. The Matterport interface is user-friendly, self-determining, and allows for a rich layering of information. The interviews are succinct, personal, and well edited. The Robin Boyd Foundation has long advocated for the power of architecture and design to reflect and shape Australian identity and ensure a continuing dialogue of how good design can improve our world. The addition of the virtual tour has created another important portal to reach out to a broader audience during the pandemic and continue the promotion of Boyd’s philosophy.

Additional producers or contributors: Tim Isaacson and Jonathan Russell (Editors), Volunteers of the Robin Boyd Foundation and Manning Clark House, Greg Burgess with financial support from the Alistair Swayn Foundation

State Award

Inflection Vol.08: Presence - Michaela Prunotto, Kate Donaldson, Manning McBride (editors)

Inflection is a considered collection of provocative and thought-promoting architectural essays from a diverse pool of local and international graduates, academics, and multidisciplinary practitioners. It is presented in a well composed and accessible journal format. At its core, it raises important awareness of the of the multitude of developing issues humanity faces both environmentally and socio-politically at varying urban scales around the globe. It employs both text and image to express ideas through research and design proposition in a clear and understandable language that will stimulate thought and debate in a wider audience.

Additional producers or contributors: Melbourne Books (Publisher), Dr AnnMarie Brennan (Supervisor)

National Award

Union magazine - Gemma Savio (editor)

Union presents images, drawings, and text that elegantly brings together conversations, ideas, and processes behind the making of contemporary Australian architecture, art, and design. The audience is drawn into discussions and interviews by academics, architects, curators, and cultural commentators who speak directly to either their own projects, or to work that falls within the frame of their research and professional experience. The magazine provides evidence of the cultural value of the works published. The differing scale, typology and medium provides a sophisticated conversation about architecture, art, and design in Australia.

Additional producers or contributors: Art Ink (Publisher), Lavinia Pucetti (Designer), Sarah Gory (Sub-editor), Mauro Baracco (Contributor), Timothy Burke (Contributor), Angelo Candalepas (Contributor), Michael Chapman (Contributor), Ineke Dane (Contributor), Thomas Essex-Plath (Contributor), Rory Hyde (Contributor), Lucy McRae (Contributor), David Neustein (Contributor), Anthony St John Parsons (Contributor), Shelley Penn (Contributor), Michael Roper (Contributor), Tom Ross (Contributor), David Welsh (Contributor), Louise Wright (Contributor)

After the Australian Ugliness • Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin and Megan Patty GIRT the podcast • Monique Woodward director of WOWOWA Architecture & Nic Brunsdon creative director of NIC BRUNSDON

Archimarathon • Kevin Hui Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People & Place • Professor Leon van Schaik AO, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University Robin Boyd: Late Works • Peter Raisbeck MSD and Christine Phillips RMIT

Architecture, Building and Planning/ Melbourne School of Design - Public Events, Exhibitions and Lectures 2021 • Professor Donald Bates - Chair of Architectural Design/Associate Dean (Engagement) Archemist Podcast - S4: Hero Phenomena • Kimberley Hui

A Cinematic Vision: the Architecture of Howard Lawson • Virginia Blue/ Public Record Office Victoria

CHENIER FOR EASTOP ARCHITECTS, MORNINGTON PENINSULA - RORY GARDINER

Architect Victoria

VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

Edition 2/ 2022