Architecture Australia, May 2022
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2022 Gold Medallist, Sean Godsell: Honouring the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Prize Winners
Projects
Driven by flexibility: Divided House
In the design of a home for his family in an inner Melbourne suburb, Jon Clements uses considered spatial moves as well as more overt references to acknowledge the site’s past occupants and histories.
Awards
2022 National Prizes: Gold Medal
Godsell’s body of work, publications, exhibitions, and speaking and teaching engagements have been accoladed in Australia.
2022 National Prizes: National President’s Prize
Khai Liew’s influence within the architecture profession is often understated.
2022 National Prizes: Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize
Fiona Gardiner is a pre-eminent role model for women who has demonstrated relevant, sustained and active leadership.
2022 National Prizes: Leadership in Sustainability Prize
Kenneth Yeang has led a paradigm shift in sustainable built environment research and practice, inspiring a generation of architects.
2022 National Prizes: Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture – joint winners
Thomas Huntingford and Isabella Reynolds have made contributions to the advancement of architecture and education.
‘Making something out of nothing’: The architecture of Sean Godsell
Godsell’s designs, both built and unbuilt, demonstrate a commitment to experimentation, and his ability to “shift from timeless form to playful contraption” gives his buildings a performative aspect that is admired across the globe, says Philip Goad.
More articles
Indigenizing practice: Maximizing economic benefits
A new health and wellbeing centre in the Aboriginal community of Yarrabah demonstrates the value of projects that engage the local community not only in building design but in ongoing economic opportunities.
A curated piece of utopia: Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge
On a site gifted to the public for artistic enjoyment, a design team led by Kerstin Thompson Architects has integrated landscape and architecture to transform the location while preserving its natural ecosystems and cultural context.
Bold confidence: Shepparton Art Museum
With an ambition to “change agendas,” the commanding new Shepparton Art Museum in regional Victoria stands as a counterpoint to the landscape, while accommodating the natural floodway and maximizing the surrounding parkland.
Venturous and engaging: Rockhampton Museum of Art
On Rockhampton’s riverbank, a new art museum designed by local and national practices in partnership connects the city’s architectural heritage with contemporary art and culture.
Church of the Living God
In suburban Sydney, a mixed-use building for the community of the Church of the Living God offers a civic presence and a deep sense of the sacred while communing with the surrounding streets.
Architecture as storytelling: Quay Quarter Lanes
In central Sydney, AMP Capital and the City of Sydney have astutely brought together a diverse collection of architectural voices to produce a fine-grain precinct with an organic feel and a historic sensibility, despite its controlled genesis.