The Session
In recent years, a huge amount of work has been undertaken to improve gender equity in architectural workplaces, and there is now increasing attention to a broad range of equity matters and initiatives. Justine Clark of Parlour (RAA Partner organisation) will be in speak in conversation with RAA Secretary Sarah Aldridge about their work in the area of equitable practice and the guides they publish to help architecture move towards a more equitable profession – one that offers opportunity for all and is better positioned to meet contemporary challenges.

Justine Clark
Justine Clark is an architectural editor, writer, researcher, advisor and advocate. She is a co-founder and director of Parlour: gender, equity, architecture. She leads the organisation’s event, advocacy and funding programs, and established the Parlour website, which she now edits with Susie Ashworth. Justine consults to built environment organisations, institutions and practices on policy, strategy publications, events and public engagement.

Justine is active in public discussions of architecture; she has convened many events, curated exhibitions and sat on national and international juries. From 2000–2011 Justine worked on Architecture Australia, and was editor of the journal for seven years. Her work has won awards for architecture in the media and her broader contribution to the profession was recognised with the 2015 Marion Mahony Prize and the 2019 President's Prize from the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter. In 2026, Justine’s significant impact on architecture in Australia was further recognised with her appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia.

Her writing appears in both the scholarly and professional press, and she has worked on topics including gender and architecture, architectural criticism, architectural drawing and postwar modernism. She is co-author, with Dr Paul Walker, of the book Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern (2000). Justine is an honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Photo: Jordan James Kaye & Steph Irvine

This 1 hour session offers 1 formal CPD point, performance criterion addressed is 2 from the AACA National Standard of Competency for Architects 2021.

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

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