Australian Institute of Architects
The Australian Institute of Architects (officially the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, abbreviated as RAIA) is Australia's professional body for architects. Its members use the post-nominals FRAIA (Fellow) and RAIA (Members, also the organisation's abbreviation). The Institute supports 14,000 members across Australia, including 550 Australian members who are based in architectural roles across 40 countries outside Australia. SONA (Student Organised Network for Architecture) is the national student-membership body of the Australian Institute of Architects.

History
The Australian Institute of Architects was established on 6 September 1929 and continued under this name until 18 August 1930, when the "Royal" title was granted, and it became the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.A number of states formed professional societies for architects, including the Queensland Institute of Architects, and the West Australian Institute of Architects.
The South Australian Institute of Architects (SAIA) was founded by a resolution passed by a group of architects on 20 September 1886, and in 1904 Walter Hervey Bagot designed its seal. David Williams was one of the founding group, and was president from 1911 to 1913. During this time he called on the South Australian Government to hold design competitions for large public buildings, and the SAIA also became an allied member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.The Australian Institute was formed in 1929, when state architectural institutes combined to form a unified national association. However, a full federation of the state-based institutes did not come about immediately, with some states maintaining their independence. The South Australian Institute of Architects only joined up in July 1962, becoming the "South Australian Chapter". The Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (RVIA) was the last to join, in 1968.The national headquarters was formerly located in Red Hill, Canberra, in a 1968 building designed by Sydney Ancher from Sydney firm Ancher, Mortlock and Woolley. This building still functions as the ACT Chapter offices.

Name change
In August 2008, following an informal poll of members in 2001, the National Council resolved to continue trading as the "Australian Institute of Architects", while retaining "Royal Australian Institute of Architects" as the legal name. The postnominals of "FRAIA" (Fellow) and "RAIA" (Members and organisation abbreviation) continue to be used with the legal name abbreviated.

Purpose, functions, affiliations
As a professional body representing architects, the institute is represented on many national and state industry and government bodies, and is affiliated with the International Union of Architects (UIA).A chapter is maintained in each state and territory,

National awards and prizes
Gold Medal
The AIA Gold Medal is the highest award of the Australian Institute of Architects awarded annually since 1960.

Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize
This award honours architect and gender equity advocate Paula Whitman.
Emma Williamson (2023)
Fiona Gardiner (2022)
Suzanne Hunt (2021) 
Parlour: Gender, Equity, Architecture (2020)
Helen Lochhead (2019)
Melonie Bayl-Smith (2018)
Catherine Baudet (2017)

National Architecture Awards
The National Architecture Awards have been presented since 1981 and include:

The Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture
The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture – Houses
The Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
The Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture
The Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage
The Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture
The Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design
The Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture
The David Oppenheim Award for Sustainable Architecture
The Jørn Utzon Award for International Architecture
Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture

State architecture awards and prizes
Each of the state chapters also presents awards, with notable examples including:

New South Wales
Queensland
FDG Stanley Award for Public Architecture
Robin Dods Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
Job & Froud Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture
Hayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture
G.H.M. Addison Award for Interior Architecture
Robin Gibson Award for Enduring Architecture
Don Roderick Award for Heritage
Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture
Karl Langer Award for Urban Design

South Australia
Sir James Irwin Chapter President's Medal
Jack McConnell Award for Public Architecture
Keith Neighbour Award for Commercial Architecture
Robert Dickson Award for Interior Architecture
John S Chappell Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
David Saunders Award for Heritage Architecture (after David Saunders (1928–1986), appointed professor of architecture at the University of Adelaide in 1977, and second president of Australia ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) in 1978)
Derrick Kendrick Award for Sustainable Architecture
Jack Cheesman Award For Enduring Architecture

Victoria
Victorian Architecture Medal
William Wardell Award for Public Architecture
Public Architecture Award (Alterations and Additions)
Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture
John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture
Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture Houses – New
John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture Houses – Alterations and Additions
Melbourne Prize for contribution to the civic life of Melbourne

Western Australia
George Temple-Poole Award

Presidents
National presidents
National presidents:

State and territory chapter presidents
Australian Capital Territory (established 1962)
ACT Chapter established in 1962.

New South Wales (established 1871, NSW Chapter from 1933)
Northern Territory

President: Rossi Kouronis
Immediate Past President: Jenny CulganQueensland

President 2022-2024: Amy Degenhart
Immediate Past President: Mark Jones
President 2020-2022: Michael LaverySouth Australia

President: Chris Morley
Immediate Past President: Anthony CoupeTasmania

President: Meghan Baines
Immediate Past President: Stuart TannerVictoria

Victorian Institute of Architects (VIA), founded, 21 August 1856
1856-61 John George Knight
1861-65 John Gill
1871-74 Joseph Reed
1874-81 Sir Redmond Barry
1881-82 George Wharton
1882-84 Charles Webb
1884-85 Nathaniel Billing
1885-86 Thomas Watts
1886-87 Lloyd Tayler
1887-88 Alfred Purchas
1888-89 Sir George Verdon
1889-90 Lloyd Tayler
1890-92 George Charles Inskip
1892-93 Percy Oakden
1893-95 Arthur Ebden Johnson
1895-97 Percy Oakden
1897-99 Anketell Matthew Henderson
1899-01 Lloyd Tayler
Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (RVIA), established
1901-02 Percy Oakden
1902-03 Thomas Watts
1903-05 John Augustus Bernhard Koch
1905-07 Charles D’Ebro
1907-08 Francis Joseph Smart
1908-10 Edward Albert Bates
1910-11 Anketell Matthew Henderson
1911-13 Gerard Wight
1913-14 Anketell Matthew Henderson
1914-16 Henry William Tompkins
1916-18 William Arthur Mordey Blackett
1918-19 Arthur Peck
1919-21 Frank Stapley
1921-23 Kingsley Anketell Henderson
1923-24 William Scott Purves Godfrey
1924-26 Philip Burgoyne Hudson
1926-28 Percy Allport Oakley
1928-30 William Arthur Mordey Blackett
1930-31 Thomas Johnstone Buchan
1931-33 Leighton Francis Irwin
1933-35 Charles Edward Serpell
1935-37 Frederick Louis Klingender
1937-39 Alec Stanley Eggleston
1939-41 Leslie Marsh Perrott
1941-42 Sir Walter Osborn McCutcheon KT
1942-45 John Francis Deighton Scarborough
1945-47 Robert Snowden Demaine
1947-49 William Purves Race Godfrey OBE TD
1949-51 Eric Keith Mackay OBE
1951-53 Eric Hughes
1952-55 William Balcombe Griffiths OBE MC ED
1955-57 Harry Stephen Winbush
1957-59 Raymond Berg
1959-61 Professor Brian Bannatyne Lewis
1961-63 Acheson Best Overend MBE
1963-65 David Fisher
1965-66 Stanley Maurice Charles Evans
1966 Ronald Grant Lyon AM
Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA), Victorian Chapter established
1966-67 Ronald Grant Lyon AM
1968-69 Lloyd Emerson Albert Orton
1969-70 Robert Peter McIntyre AO
1971      Robin Penleigh Boyd CBE
1972      Reginald Edward Grouse DFC
1973-74 John David Gates
1975-76 Neil Clerehan
1977-78 Richard Melville Young AM
1978-80 Neil Thomas Edward Montgomery
1980-82 James Heward Earle AM
1982-84 John Perrin Alsop
1984-86 Dimity Alexandria Reed
1986-88 Charles Justin
1988-90 William Spiers Corker
1990-92 Stephen Cameron Ashton
1992-94 John Stanley Castles
1994-97 Garry Bruce Marshall
1997-00 James Crofts Learmonth
2000-02 Ian Lachlan McDougall
2002-04 Elisabetta Maria Giannini
2004-06 Robert Alan Stent
2006-08 Philip James Goad
2008-10 Karl Arthur Fender
2010-12 Robert Paul Puksand
2012-14 Jonathan William Clements
2014-16 Peter Francis Malatt
2016-18 Vanessa Bird
2018-20 Amy Muir
2020-22 Bill Krotiris
2022-24 David WagnerWestern Australian Institute of Architects (WAIA)

1896 – 1898		George Thomas Temple Poole
1898 – 1900		Michael Francis Cavanagh
1900 – 1902		George Thomas Temple Poole
1903 – 1905		Michael Francis Cavanagh
1905 – 1907		George Thomas Temple Poole
1907 – 1909		Percy William Harrison
1909 – 1911		Joseph John Talbot Hobbs
1911 – 1913		Joseph John Talbot Hobbs
1913 – 1915		George Thomas Temple Poole
1915 – 1917		Michael Francis Cavanagh
1917 – 1919		Joseph Herbert Eales
1919 – 1921		Alfred Robert Linus WrightRoyal Institute of Architects of Western Australia  (RIAWA)

1921 – 1922		Alfred Robert Linus Wright
1922 – 1923		Jack Learmonth Ochiltree
1923 – 1924 		Alfred Robert Linus Wright
1924 – 1925		Eustace Gresley Cohen
1926 – 1927		Alfred Robert Linus Wright
1928 – 1929		Joseph Francis Allen
1930 – 1931		Edgar Le Blond Henderson
1932 – 1933		Joseph Francis Allen
1933 – 1934		Walter James Waldie Forbes
1935 – 1936		Alexander Donald Cameron
1937 – 1938		Reginald Summerhayes
1938 – 1940		Kenneth Charles Duncan
1940 – 1941		George Herbert Parry
1942 – 1943		Albert Ernest (Paddy) ClareRoyal Australian Institute of Architects, WA Chapter  (RAIA-WA)

1943 – 1944		Albert Ernest (Paddy) Clare
1945 – 1946		Alexander Barr Winning
1947 – 1948		William Allan McInnes Green
1949 – 1950		John Berkeley Fitzhardinge
1951 – 1952		William Thomas Leighton
1953 – 1954		Oswald Victor Chisholm
1955 – 1956		Kenneth Charles Duncan
1957 – 1958		Marshall Walter Gervase Clifton
1959 – 1960		Desmond Ossiter Sands
1961 – 1962		Mervyn Henry Parry
1963 – 1964		William Thomas Leighton
1965 – 1966		Gordon William Finn
1967 – 1968		Geoffrey Edwin Summerhayes
1969 – 1970		Richard Morris Fairbrother
1971 – 1972		Eustace Gresley Cohen
1973 – 1974		John Kenneth Duncan
1975 – 1976		Peter John Grigg
1977 – 1978		Antonio Carmelo (Tony) De Leo
1979 – 1980		John A. Pickering
1981 – 1982		Ronald Barrie Bodycoat
1983 – 1984		Laurie William Hegvold
1985 – 1986		Max Rodney Hardman
1987 – 1988		James Taylor
1989 – 1990		Brian Frederic Charles Wright
1991 – 1992		Peter Shaw Parkinson
1993 – 1994		Gregory Francis Hamilton Howlett
1995 – 1996		Geoffrey Leslie London
1997 – 1998		Nigel Warren Shaw
1999 – 2000		Haralds Gunter (Harry) Schubert
2001 - 2004		Warren Merton Kerr
2004 – 2005		Patrick Maurice Pinder
2005 – 2007		Ian Henry Dewar
2007 – 2011		Rodney David Mollett
2011 – 2014		David John Knox Karotkin
2014 - 2017		Philip John Griffiths
2017 - 2019		Suzanne Jane Hunt
2019 - 2021		Peter Charles Athol Hobbs
2021 - 			Sandy Michelle Anghie

References
External links
Australian Institute of Architects Website