TDPA 2023
Judging Panel.
JEFA GREENAWAY (CHAIR)
Wailwan, Kamilaroi + Dharawal
Jefa Greenaway is a founding Director of Greenaway Architects, an Honorary Fellow of Design at Deakin University and an AILA National Cultural Ambassador. He’s championed Indigenous led design thinking for three decades as a registered architect in NSW/VIC/ACT, as founding Director of Indigenous Architecture + Design Australia (IADA), and as a co-author of the International Indigenous Design Charter, with a particular interest in design equity and Country-centred design.
His current projects include the $11B North East Link Project, the Marvel Stadium Upgrade and Stage I+II of the Koorie Heritage Trust at Federation Square. He was a 2020 Design Institute of Australia’s (DIA) ‘Hall of Fame’ inductee, signifying an outstanding contribution to Australian design and was recently named in the Qantas 100 Inspiring Australians, celebrating their centenary and was included within the INDE.Awards 2023 ‘The Luminary’ (special prize) recognising an individual whose entire portfolio represents a lifetime of design finesse and distinction.
Greenaway was a co-creative director (with Tristan Wong) of the Australian exhibition titled ‘Inbetween’ at 17th Venice Architecture Biennale and proudly joined the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) Board in 2021.
KERSTIN THOMPSON AM
Victoria
Kerstin Thompson is Principal and Design Director of Kerstin Thompson Architects. Committed to design-based research and education, she is also Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash Universities. Thompson plays an active role not only within the profession, but also in promoting quality design in the wider community through her role as Panel Member on the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s Design Review Panel.
Located in Melbourne Australia, KTA was founded by Kerstin in 1994 and has established itself as a significant and innovative reference point in Australian architecture and urban design. The practice focus is on architecture as a civic endeavour with an emphasis on user experience and enjoyment of place.
Thompson is a writer and lecturer with close links to schools of architecture and professional institutes in Australia and overseas. She was Creative Director for the 2005 RAIA National Conference and the 2008 Venice Biennale and a member of the Federal Government’s Built Environment Industry Innovation Council. Kerstin has also been an elected National Councillor for the Australian Institute of Architects and was elevated to Life Fellow by the Institute in 2017. In recognition for the work of her practice, contribution to the profession and tertiary education, Kerstin was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2022.
JUSTIN HILL
Singapore
Justin Hill is currently based in Singapore, where he has worked for the past 40 years with Kerry Hill Architects (KHA). Hill co-founded the practice’s Fremantle WA studio in 1995 and has recently retired.
Hill is currently the Chair of the International Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects and Vice President (Pacific region) of the Commonwealth Association of Architects.
He has extensive experience in master planning, architectural and interior design, design competitions and practice management. He is a member of the Singapore Institute of Architects and a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, for which he has served on national and state juries. Hill has a longstanding association with theatre, having worked on more than 30 major stage productions across Australia and Asia. In 2016, he designed the winning entry for the Australian Tapestry Design Prize for Architects, titled 22 Temenggong Road, Twilight.
CHRISTINA NA-HEON CHO
Queensland
Christina Na-Heon Cho is a third-generation architect, born in Seoul and raised in Brisbane. She has been fortunate to have lived on the crossroads of two unique and wonderful societies. Her Korean-Australian heritage has significantly shaped the way she perceives the world and consequently her practice in architecture.
Cho is a registered architect in Queensland and Director of Cox Architecture. She was the recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) National Emerging Architect Prize and selected as one of Australian Financial Review’s BOSS Young Executives.
Cho currently holds positions on the board of the Institute of Modern Art, Property Council of Australia’s Social infrastructure committee, as well as the advisory board and Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland School of Architecture. She studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Queensland graduating as Valedictorian with first class honours.
ADRIAN IREDALE
Victoria
Over the past 30 years Adrian Iredale has made a significant and sustained contribution to the profession of architecture at a State and National level. His participation in AIA juries both as a member and Chair across Australia have maintained a high level of critical discourse and clear advocacy for the impact that quality architecture can have in our community.
Iredale is a Design Architect in its purest form, clearly thinking through drawing to translate ideas into clear communication. Educated in Perth (Curtin University), Melbourne (MArch Research RMIT) and Frankfurt (Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste- Stadelschule). Iredale’s experience in practice and lecturing and his extensive travels provide him with a truly global perspective.
He has specific experience in urban design, education, aged care, custodial, sport and recreation and innovative, low cost, sustainable housing for both public and private clients. These projects have been highly rewarded and published and continue to set benchmarks for West Australian housing.
CAMILLA BLOCK
Victoria
Camilla Block graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) in 1991 and joined Neil Durbach in practice in 1992. In 1998, the office of Durbach Block Architects was established. Camilla has been a design principal in all the major projects of Durbach Block.
Block has taught, lectured, exhibited, judged awards and been published both nationally and internationally.
In 2014, she received an Honorary Appointment as Adjunct Professor from UTS: University of Technology, Faculty Design Architecture and Building.
Most recently Durbach Block Jaggers were awarded the 2021 World Architecture Festival Cultural Building of the year for the Phoenix Central Park Performance Space and Gallery with John Wardle Architects. The project also won the 2020 National Harry Seidler Award for commercial Architecture and the Emil Sodersten Award for interior architecture, the NSW Architecture Medallion, the Sir G. Stephenson Award for Commercial Architecture, the John Verge Award for Interior Architecture, Dezeen Cultural Building of the year and the Horbury Hunt award for brickwork in the commercial category. DBJ have received the Robin Boyd Award three times for the best residential project in Australia, as well as State and National Architecture Awards across all building types, including public, education, commercial, residential, heritage and urban design.
JOSÉ DA SILVA
Queensland
José Da Silva is a curator and writer and currently Director of UNSW Galleries, Sydney where he has developed a dynamic program of contemporary Australian art and design since 2018. He holds a Master of Arts (Research) and Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the Queensland University of Technology, and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Sydney – Nepean.
Previously he led the Australian Cinémathèque – an international market leader for the presentation of moving-image and media art, he is also the curator of the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art. Between 2006 and 2018, he contributed to an ambitious program of exhibitions, commissions, acquisitions and projects at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, including a key role in the curatoriums for five editions of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Selected curatorial projects include Gordon Hookey: A MURRIALITY (2022-24, with Liz Nowell); Jacobus Capone: Orisons (2022); Sam Smith: Capture (2021); The Colour Line: W. E. B Du Bois and Archie Moore (2021); Friendship as a Way of Life (2020, with Kelly Doley); Wansolwara: One Salt Water (2020, with Mikala Tai), and Gemma Smith: Rhythm Sequence (2019).