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Transform: Altering the Future of Architecture

Transform: Altering the Future of Architecture

If architecture was more inclusive would it also be in a stronger position? Parlour and the University of Melbourne invite you to participate in a day of discussion and debate about gender, agency and remaking the profession.
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Successes, strategies and struggles

Successes, strategies and struggles

Wendy Bertrand reflects on forty years of the Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals.
Transform program

Transform program

How might we alter the future of architecture to generate a more equitable, effective and robust profession? What might such a discipline look like? How can architecture make meaningful and exciting contributions to communities, while also being more inclusive? Transform approaches the question from a range of directions, with each...
What do women want from a career in construction?

What do women want from a career in construction?

Sheryle Moon on how ot we increase the number of women in the construction industry.
Training course: pathways to working in the humanitarian sector

Training course: pathways to working in the humanitarian sector

Ever wondered if you could design a refugee camp for 10,000 people? Or how to apply your skills to the humanitarian sector?
Transform speakers

Transform speakers

A wonderful range of people have agreed to participate in Transform. Bringing these people together in a discussion-based event will lead to an invigorating day of conversation and debate.
Beyond Patronage – Transform part 2

Beyond Patronage – Transform part 2

After Transform Lori Brown is heading to Brisbane, where she will give a public lecture, "Beyond Patronage", as part of the Transform follow up event organised by Naomi Stead.
Disciplining identities

Disciplining identities

Lori Brown is also giving a free public lecture as part of the ABP Agenda Series at the University of Melbourne.
The boys' club

The boys’ club

Bronwyn Marshall reflects on the effect of the boys' club in architectural culture and workplaces.
Gender, genius and the Pritzker Prize

Gender, genius and the Pritzker Prize

Hilde Heynen's essay "Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker Prize" is now out from behind the paywall.
Transform reading list

Transform reading list

So, you are coming to Transform. Great! We've put together a little reading list to get you in the mood.
DADo Film Society: season start

DADo Film Society: season start

DADo Film Society at the Robin Boyd Foundation, an organisation dedicated to screening films on architecture, design and urbanism, has kicked off its inaugural season.
Why bother?

Why bother?

Where do you go to? Gill Matthewson reflects on the continuing disappearance of women from architecture and why we should care (and not glaze over).
A lost legacy

A lost legacy

Attrition rates for women architecture graduates are high with many bright graduates leaving the profession early. Diana Griffiths ponders this lost legacy.
E1027 Women’s Architecture Collaborative

E1027

Countering women’s marginalisation by appropriating the model of the urban 'boys' club'. Karen Burns recalls the activism and intellectual engagement of E1027.
Needed – a more profound commitment to behavioural change

Needed – profound behavioural change

Reflecting on his own architectural past, Shane Thompson argues that the profession needs fundamental behavioural change – both for the future of the profession and for women within it.
Who wants to be a Woman Architect?

Who wants to be a Woman Architect?

We all want to be valued for the quality of our work, not framed by the fact of our gender. Karen Burns reflects on the complex interactions between culture and individual agency.
I count

I count

Why we need feminism – Neph Wake does the numbers.
Architecture is too important to be left to men alone

Architecture is too important to be left to men alone

More than a numbers game. Jeremy Till explains his 30% pledge as an affirmative stance and as a means to resist the tired discourse of the ‘thrusting heroes’.
Building community

Building community

"Get it right for women, and you get it right for everyone." Lee Hillam asks how can women architects can contribute to the low cost housing debate in Australia?
Where do all the women go? I know!

Where do all the women go? I know!

Reflecting on her own recent experience of redundancy, one architect is sadly no longer surprised that there are so few registered woman architects.
Against work-life balance

Against work-life balance

Amanda Kolson Hurley argues that it is time to talk bluntly about women and money.
The graduate gender pay gap part 1 – what do the numbers mean?

The graduate gender pay gap part 1 – what do the numbers mean?

What does the 17% graduate gender pay gap in architecture and building mean? Justine Clark teases out the numbers and the issues.
Employers, the law and the dreaded pay gap

Employers, the law and the dreaded pay gap

What can we do about the gender pay gap? Neph Wake has collated some helpful links, along with questions to help check how gender friendly our workplaces are.
Updating the numbers, part 1: at school

Updating the numbers, part 1: at school

Gill Matthewson updates our statistical knowledge of women's participation in Australian architecture, starting with the state of play in architecture schools.
Updating the numbers, part 2: at work

Updating the numbers, part 2: at work

An update on the statistics – measuring women's involvement in practice and the profession.
Updating the numbers, part 3: Institute membership

Updating the numbers, part 3: Institute membership

Gill Matthewson does the numbers on membership of the Australian Institute of Architects.
The graduate pay gap – new figures

The graduate pay gap – new figures

Shelley Penn, National President of the Australian Institute of Architects, updates the figures for the architecture graduate pay gap.
The women of Victorian architecture

The women of Victorian architecture

The latest issue of Architect Victoria celebrates the celebrates the contribution women make to architecture in the state.
Demanding Pritzker recognition for Denise Scott Brown

Demanding Pritzker recognition for Denise Scott Brown

A new petition demanding that the Pritzker Prize Committee recognise the contribution of Denise Scott Brown is rapidly collecting signatures – add yours. The Women in Design group at Havard’s GSD has started a petition asking the Pritzker Prize Committee to recognise Denise Scott Brown alongside Robert Venturi in the 1991 Pritzker Prize. The petition follows on...
Where to next?

Where to next?

What is an architectural career anyway? Sara Stace describes the twists and turns she has taken so far.
Material – early bird registrations closing soon

Material – early bird registrations closing soon

Early bird ticket sales for Material, the National Conference of the Australian Institute of Architects close on Monday 22 April. Material has been conceived and developed by Creative Directors Sandra Kaji-O’Grady and John De Manincor. Sandra will be known to Parlour readers as a contributor to Parlour and one of...
NAWIC discussion paper released

NAWIC discussion paper released

The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) has released a discussion paper: 'What women want in a construction career'.
Northern Lights design competition

Northern Lights design competition

designEX invites submissions to the Northern Lights design competition.
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