The Session
Hal Guida and Michael Jasper will discuss the concepts behind the selection of speakers for the RAA’s upcoming Canberra event: Exchanging Ideas in Context. Both with background and experience of planning and design with Canberra as Context, and through the views of practice and the academy, they will expand upon the line-up of speakers examining implications of change to Form through Growth.

Harold Guida
Harold (Hal) Guida has over fifty years of international experience on wide ranging architectural, interior, planning and urban design projects undertaken in the USA, Australia, South-East Asia, Western Pacific, and China.

Hal joined Mitchell/Giurgola Architects directly from university in 1968, and after leading numerous projects undertaken from Philadelphia, he relocated to Canberra in 1981 as Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp Architects (MGT) Partner-in-Charge of Design Coordination for the New Parliament House. Following the closure of MGT he was a founder of successors Guida Moseley Brown Architects which celebrated twenty years of practice in July 2024.

Michael Jasper
Michael Jasper is an architect, educator, and scholar based in Australia. He is Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra where he teaches into the major studio projects and advanced analysis streams. Prior to joining the university, Jasper was Partner in Cooper Robertson & Partners (New York). He has been Visiting Scholar Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Visiting Scholar American Academy in Rome.

This one hour session offers 1 formal CPD point

RAA members are eligible to utilise the discount code available in the member content area for free attendance of this session.