02 Aug 2024 By architectureau
Entries have opened for the 2025 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, the only prize in Australia that rewards compelling work in its conceptual stages.
Architects, landscape architects, planners, urban designers, interior designers, and students of these disciplines are all eligible to submit their unrealised designs.
A cash prize of $5,000 will be awarded by the jury. The jury for the 2025 prize comprises esteemed industry voices who have been appointed based on their expertise, professional standing and profile.
Camila Block is a director of Durbach Block Jaggers Architects and a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. After graduating from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1991, she then joined Neil Durbach in practice in 1992. In 1998, the pair formed Durbach Block Architects (now Durbach Block Jaggers Architects). In 2014, she received an honorary appointment as adjunct professor from the University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building. She has taught, lectured, exhibited, judged awards and been published both nationally and internationally.
Nic Brunsdon serves as the principal and creative director of Brunsdon Studio and is recognised as one of Australia's leading architects. In 2015, he was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architect Award, firstly for Western Australia and then nationally. His studio's projects have received international acclaim at the World Architecture Festival, Houses Awards, Loop Awards and Australian Institute of Architects Awards programs. Brunsdon is also the director of the urban program Spacemarket, which pairs disused spaces with useful people.
Jocelyn Chiew is an architect, landscape architect, urban designer and director of city design at City of Melbourne. As director, Chiew plays a key role in creating and enabling inclusive, sustainable and enduring public places. She additionally leads the city's Design Excellence Program and is deputy chair of the Melbourne Design Review Panel. She is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, a member of Gender Equity Victoria's Put Her Name on It Reference Group and a former state and national councillor at the Australian Institute of Architects.
Michael Mossman is associate dean Indigenous Strategy and Services at the University of Sydney's School of Architecture, Design and Planning. He is a Kuku Yalanji man from Cairns, who currently lives and works on the Country of the Gadigal People in Sydney. Mossman is a registered architect (non-practising) and First Nations design strategy consultant with over 20 years of professional practice experience who advocates Country and First Nations issues in the architectural profession at educational, practice and policy levels. He was awarded a doctor of philosophy in architecture with his thesis titled: Third Space, Architecture and Indigeneity.
Georgia Birks is associate editor of Architecture Australia, a graduate of architecture and a proud descendant of the Birpai, Dunghutti and Kamilaroi people. Prior to her role as associate editor, she assisted the delivery of a range of projects across Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. She is a curator for Design Speaks, a member of the Australian Institute of Architects First Nations Advisory Committee and a member of the City of Melbourne's Design Excellence Advisory Committee.
Entries for the 2025 AA Prize for Unbuilt can be submitted until 23 August 2024.
The shortlist will be published on ArchitectureAU.com on Thursday 21 November 2024.
Awarded schemes will be published on ArchitectureAu.com on Thursday 16 January 2025. They will also be published in the January 2025 issue of Architecture Australia.
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