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Australian Architecture Conference 2026

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he 2026 Australian Architecture Conference brings together architects and built environment professionals from across Australia for two days of structured conversation, debates, and networking. This year’s theme, 'Together. Or Not At All?', provokes discussion on practice, advocacy, climate, housing, equity, and the future of architectural practice. Session…

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70Voices
16Underwriters
0Exhibitors
28On the bill · sessions
24Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Australian, in alphabetical order.
Alberto Veiga
Barozzi Veiga, Barcelona, Spain
Alisa Andrasek
Andrew Noonan
AnneMarie Brennan
Anthony Burke
Barbara Bestor
Bestor Architecture, LA, California USA
Ben Berwick
Prevalent
Carroll Go-Sam
Cyrus Patell
Collective Project
Dana Cuff
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David Chandler
David Kaunitz
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
Davina Rooney
Dinh Huynh
Melbourne School of Design
Elizabeth Watson Brown
The Greens Member for Ryan
Eliza Higgins
Collective Project
Emily Von Moger
NH Architecture
Esther Charlesworth
Professor, RMIT University
Ganga Rathnayake
Robust Architecture Workshop
Gary Rake
CEO of the Australian Building Codes Board
Guillermo Fernández–Abascal
GFA2 & University of Sydney
Gunjan Shah
EmAGN ACT Co-Chair

— and 48 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AlspecConference Principal Partner
Architecture MediaMedia Partner
BlueScopeConference Partner
BlueScope SteelNational Major Corporate Partner
BondorNational Major Corporate Partner
Bondor MetecnoConference Partner
Bondor® MetecnoNational Major Corporate Partner
BrickworksConference Partner
Brickworks Building ProductsNational Major Corporate Partner
C&A SurveyorsConference Partner
DuluxInstitute Principal Partner
FieldersConference Partner
LysaghtConference Partner
Planned CoverInsurance Partner
SiniatConference Partner
SwatchboxConference Partner
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The Programme

Selected from 28 sessions on the bill.
  • Friday 10 May, 11.55am–12.45pm

    Nigel Bertram: Listening to the City: Doing Less to Give More

    The work of NMBW Architecture Studio is a product of ongoing research into local conditions, detailed layers of history, and thinking carefully about what comes before and will com…

  • Friday 10 May, 12.45pm–1.35pm

    Barbara Bestor: Life After Modernism

    Bestor Architecture uses new formal strategies to create density in the 21st Century city. The practice strives to expand the territory of architecture into atmospheric urbanism, e…

  • Friday 10 May, 3.05pm–3.55pm

    Yasmeen Lari in conversation with Prof Esther Charlesworth

    Enjoy a conversation between Yasmeen Lari and Prof Esther Charlesworth (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia). Yasmeen is recognised as the first female architect in Pakistan, and…

  • Friday 10 May, 4.00pm – 4.50pm

    Alberto Veiga

    Alberto Veiga (Santiago de Compostela, 1973) studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra and, in 2004, he founded the office Barozzi Veiga, toge…

  • Friday 10 May, 6.00pm – 7.00pm

    Speculative Futures with Liam Young supported by Dulux

    Join us at The Capitol Theatre for an in-depth conversation with Liam Young moderated by Professor Naomi Stead. Liam Young is an Australian-born film director and architect. Young’…

  • Friday 10 May, 9.00am

    Paul Monaghan: Radical reinvention, adaptive reuse, and advocacy for better cities

    From its earliest collaborations at university to now, more than thirty years later, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has always been based on a firm commitment to an architecture of e…

  • Friday 10 May, 9.55am–10.45am

    Dana Cuff: Abundant Housing: Architectures of Spatial Justice

    Evidence supporting this opening sentence of Dr. Dana Cuff’s recent book Architectures of Spatial Justice (2023), is at the heart of her presentation to the Australian Architecture…

  • Saturday 11 May, 10.00am – 11.00am

    David Kaunitz + Ka Wai Yeung – Landscapes and Architecture

    Kaunitz Yeung Architects open this multifaceted thematic exploration with dramatic landscapes of vastness and remoteness, providing the critical contextual backdrop for the practic…

    Landscapes and Architecture
  • Saturday 11 May, 10.00am – 11.00am

    Kathy Waghorn – Here and There

    Kathy Waghorn shares tools and methods for place advocacy in Aotearoa while pointing to tensions of closeness and distance such as human and non-human life.

    Here and There
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 24 companies, parsed from the program.

24 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
15Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
9Companies Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

4% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite11%
  • Director / Head of23%
  • Other roles6796%

Of 70 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01AlspecSp·C
  2. 02Architecture MediaSp·M
  3. 03BlueScopeSp·C
  4. 04BlueScope SteelSp·N
  5. 05BondorSp·N
  6. 06Bondor® MetecnoSp·N
  7. 07BrickworksSp·C
  8. 08Brickworks Building ProductsSp·N
  9. 09C&A SurveyorsSp·C
  10. 10DuluxSp·I
  11. 11FieldersSp·C
  12. 12LysaghtSp·C
  13. 13Planned CoverSp·I
  14. 14SiniatSp·C
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
conference partner8
50% of 16
conference principal partner1
6% of 16
institute principal partner1
6% of 16
insurance partner1
6% of 16
media partner1
6% of 16
national major corporate partner4
25% of 16