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Architects Without Frontiers

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: Swanston Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.architectswithoutfrontiers.com.au

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22.01.2022 Architects Without Frontiers congratulates our Network Partner @milieuproperty and their architects @freadmanwhite for the success of their Napier Street project which took out the Best Overend Award tonight for Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing category in the Victorian Architecture Awards 2020! Photographs @gavin_green #vicarchitectureawards #australianinstituteofarchitects #australianarchitecture

22.01.2022 AWF congratulates Esther Ziebell @tractconsultants for winning the AILA VIC 2020 Future Leader, Graduate Award. Esther has been with Tract since 2016, first as a student intern and now as a Landscape Architect. We at AWF were delighted to work with Esther as part of the multidisciplinary team for the Maningrida Arts and Culture Precinct in remote West Arnhem Land, where Tract were responsible for the landscape design.... #humanitarianarchitecture #designlikeyougiveadamn @tractconsultants @maningridaarts @aila.victoria

21.01.2022 Repost from @clarkehopkinsclarke This is the concep master plan for the Maasai Girls Rescue Centre in Tanzania. We are collaborating with @architectswithoutfrontiers to create a new campus for the school which will provide living quarters for approximately 100 young girls, a pre-school, vocational training area, dining hall, volunteer living quarters, livestock barns and garden for sustainable farming. Link in bio for more info! #architectswithoutfrontiers #worldarchitecture ...#global #urbanplanning #masterplanning #tanzania #impacttomorrow #architecture See more

20.01.2022 AWF congratulates SVTC on an amazing international event held in the Cakaudrove Women’s Resource Centre in Savusavu. Last Thursday the SVTC welcomed Ambassadors and High Commissioners from Australia, Britain, Japan, New Zealand and the USA! These distinguished guests heard an inspiring presentation from SVTC President Adi Salaseini Kavu Fong before individually congratulating the organisation on all they have achieved. The Soqosoqo Vakamarama i Taukei, Cakaudrove (SVTC) parti...cularly supports the endeavors of women, who make up its members, to learn the business skills they need to become local entrepreneurs, contributing to their families and the community through the creation and sale of unique traditional crafts. Beautiful crafts were exhibited and women from Nasavusavu and Wailevu entertained guests with a Meke performance. AWF is proud to have contributed to the realization of the CWRC Great Hall building which has helped to make all these initiatives possible! #cakaudrove #womenoffiji #savusavu #designlikeyougiveadamn @Aushcfj @dfat

18.01.2022 Reposted from @rmit_moddd Webinar 5: Want a career in the humanitarian resilience and disaster management sectors? Meet Kirsten McDonald (ARUP International ), Maree Grenfell (Resilient Melbourne, City of Melbourne) & Alice Hammond (AF8, NZ) to discuss diverse and exciting pathways into working in the disaster management and humanitarian fields. Thursday 25 June... 5.30pm-6.30pm Melbourne Time To join the webinar see the link in the @rmit_moddd bio #DRR #Humanitarianism #Disasterriskreduction #disastermanagement #resilience #ARUP #af8 #cityofmelbourne #resilientmelbourne @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

17.01.2022 Reposting this fantastic update from AWF partner organisation The Anganwadi Project... HARIVILLU 2 UPDATE amongst everything that is going on around the world, our little Anganwadi is slowly coming together. So grateful to the team on the ground @aranchaalvear and @rdt_anantapur and the ladies and men onsite giving so much of their expertise, love and attention to this project. Rendering nearly complete, painting commenced.. jaali brick wall and tiles to come and rangoli portal screens to be installed... slowly but surely! #projectanganwadi #humanitarianarchitecture #preschool #india #anantapur #buildinginindia @felicemarija @emillly.s.p @sarahschoffel

17.01.2022 Repost from @rmit_moddd Registration is now open - link in MoDDD bio. Speakers: Michael Murphy of the MASS Design Group and Dr Charles Guest, former Chief Medical Officer in Victoria and ACT The MASS Design Group is an architecture and design firm geared towards improving social equity and health outcomes through design innovation.... @massdesigngroup @estherrchar #humanitarianism #disasterresponse #disasterresilience #crisismanagement

17.01.2022 Last week we snapped a quick photo of the executive of the Soqosoqo Vakamarama ni Cakaudrove who are also very delighted with the Good Design Award for their Women’s Resource Centre. The SVTC were central to the success of the project and we can’t thank them enough for their support, along with DFAT and the entire collaborative team of architects, engineers and builders. We hope to be able to help SVTC realise the future stages of the project as well. Here are a few more pho...tos taken earlier this year by wonderful photographer @james.mepham. These shots show more of how the women use the building for their traditional crafts and other community projects. #cakaudrove #dfat #savusavu #GoodDesignAus #GoodDesignAustralia #gooddesignawards #womenoffiji #designlikeyougiveadamn @james.mepham

17.01.2022 We are very proud and pleased about the recognition of our amazing Executive Director Esther Charlesworth by Qantas, in their series of articles ‘100 Inspiring Australians’ published to mark their centenary this year. With bushfires, floods, chronic poverty and rising sea levels across the world, Charlesworth, who’s inspired by people who’ve thought about how you put ethics into action, believes that design has a role to play in our big global challenges. Read the articl...e via the link in our bio #qantastravelinsider #inspiringaustralians #humanitarianarchitecture #designlikeyougiveadamn

16.01.2022 We recently caught up with Deiter Lim, Managing Director of Tract Consultants who shared his insights on being an AWF Network Partner and the impact of pro bono work in the built environment sector, especially in light of the compounding disasters of 2020. ‘The bushfire affected communities in Australia have taken a double hit in the last six months. In this context, the requirement for pro bono work is actually greater, especially as the budgetary response has been redirecte...d to fighting COVID 19. So rebuilding towns and communities affected by bushfires is difficult with less financial resources and will actually require more pro bono work for those communities.’ Read the full interview via the link in our bio @tractconsultants #humanitarianarchitecture #covidindights #architectswithoutfrontiers #transforminglivesthroughdesign

15.01.2022 We are looking forward to this online Salon at @parlour this Thursday evening from 7-9pm AEST. AWF has connections to both these amazing women. @kalimarnane is an @anganwadiproject architect who worked on Bholu 15 in Ahmedabad and is now completing her PhD (UQ) on the significance of public spaces in informal settlements. @loatahodesign is integral to the design and realisation of the SVTC/AWF project - the Cakaudrove Women's Centre in Fiji. Loata is also completing a PhD (UNC) focusing on the intersection of architecture with women's cultural knowledge. The Salon is free to join but you need to book to receive a login via the link to the Parlour Salon website which is in our bio

15.01.2022 Designing to Survive Thought provoking article by Phillip Kennicott from @washingtonpost about the intersection between COVID-19 and architecture... ‘As we try to understand the role of architecture post-pandemic, we have to first better understand the ways we inhabit buildings and move through space’... Includes input from Michael Murphy, Stefano Boeri, Elizabeth Diller and others. Image shows one of the Bosco Verticale buildings, a pair of vertical forests, in Milan by @stefanoboeriarchitetti Link in our bio

13.01.2022 Delighted to repost this delightful news from @the_anganwadi_project that the second preschool being built in Andhra Pradesh is nearing completion despite COVID-19! The committed TAP team have continued to supervise from afar to great effect... HARIVILLU 2 We have a roof!! And some absolutely beautiful rangoli metalwork that will be going in the circle windows and roof voids we are so excited to see these in the flesh and can’t wait till they are painted and installed Great work going on in Anantapur amid that crazy that’s going on in the world!! #theanganwadiproject #shehasaroof #craftmanship #india #preschool #humanitarianarchitecture #ruralindia @rdt_anantapur @felicemarija @emillly.s.p

12.01.2022 Repost from @rmit_moddd In an age of disasters, pandemic and crisis, we need: SDG 11... Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable - Translating global goals into towns and cities SDG 13 Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts on the environment, health, disaster reduction, culture, land and housing Learn practical strategies for meeting these challenges in a town you know via developing skills in: Risk Assessment Systems Analysis Design Thinking Systemic Design Appreciative Enquiry. For more info: Please contact Prof John Fien: [email protected] #sdg_2030 #sdgaction #designlikeyougiveadamn

12.01.2022 NAIDOC WEEK 2020 | ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS WILL BE . NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to come together to celebrate the rich history, diverse cultures and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the oldest continuing cultures on the planet. This year's theme #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. ... Always Was, Always Will Be. acknowledges this nation’s story began at the dawn of time and didn’t begin with documented European contact. Architects Without Frontiers is proud and privileged to work on important community projects, with Indigenous people and communities, working together for a shared future. We acknowledge the traditional landownersof the Country on which we work and pay our respects to the Elders past present and future. To find out more about NAIDOC week or to see a full list of events, visit https://www.naidoc.org.au/ Image: NAIDOC National Poster Competition Winner, Shape of Land, by Noongar and Saibai Islander man Tyrown Waigana. Shape of Land description: The Rainbow Serpent came out of the Dreamtime to create this land. It is represented by the snake and it forms the shape of Australia, which symbolises how it created our lands. #NAIDOCweek #NAIDOC #NAIDOC2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe

11.01.2022 Great initiative for architects shared from @parlour... More than 1000 people have taken the Work Wellbeing survey - thanks everyone !! If you haven't done it yet, please do make the time. We also need a bit more gender balance - we need more men to take the survey! So, if you have already done it, please encourage your colleagues and friends to take it too. Swipe for the QR code, or follow the link from the @parlour website https: // www.surveymonkey.com/r/ParlourWWBsurvey View 1 comment 17 hours ago

11.01.2022 We are thrilled that the Cakaudrove Women’s Resource Centre Project in Savusavu, Fiji has been awarded in the Architecture Category of the 2020 Good Design Awards. The CWRC or A I Taadra - Dreaming project includes the design, construction, and landscaping of a Great Hall and associated buildings in Savusavu, on the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji. Stage 1 the Great Hall building is complete and further stages are still underway. Funded by the Australian Department of Foreign ...Affairs and Trade, this is a collaborative project between the rural women of Cakaudrove - Soqosoqo Vakamarama i Taukei ni Cakaudrove (SVTC) and Architects Without Frontiers. The Good Design Awards Jury praised Cakaudrove Women’s Resource Centre (A I Tatadra - Dreaming Project), commenting: This is a project that successfully combines architectural and social values. The community is the beneficiary and importantly, were also central to the design process. It is an admirable project on many levels and uses good design to provide a positive impact for its intended community. We congratulate and sincerely thank the many people in Fiji and Australia who participated in this project! Perhaps the project's most powerful contribution is that it has centred the agenda of indigenous rural women in the heart of the province's only major town, a tourist and commercial hub, by enhancing their voices within the context of the Vanua. #GoodDesignAus #GoodDesign Australia #gooddesignawards #designawards #cakaudrove #dfat #savusavu #womenoffiji #designlikeyougiveadamn

11.01.2022 We mark this World Refugee Day in the midst of dramatic social change. A pandemic has tested our strength and highlighted systematic inequalities. It has also connected us in new ways and renewed our motivation to act for equality. In the time of COVID, we celebrate refugees who are on the frontlines fighting this pandemic, their hosts and the aid workers supporting them. UNHCR 2020 @unhcr... Every dollar counts in supporting refugees through this pandemic. See the link in our bio #unhcr #worldrefugeeday2020 #humanrights #ngos #humanitarian

10.01.2022 Today on World Humanitarian Day AWF commends #RealLifeHeroes A global campaign that celebrates humanitarians - a thank you to the people who have committed their lives to helping others. On August 19, the eleventh year that we have marked World Humanitarian Day, we are paying special tribute to the real-life heroes who have committed their lives to helping others in the most extreme circumstances throughout the world.... The campaign focuses on what drives humanitarians to continue to save and protect lives despite conflict, insecurity, lack of access and risks linked to COVID-19. This year, COVID-19 has been the biggest challenge to humanitarian operations around the world. The lack of access and restrictions placed by Governments around the world has resulted in communities, civil society and local NGOs being the frontline of the response. Therefore, the campaign presents the inspiring personal stories of humanitarians who are treating and preventing COVID-19, providing food to vulnerable people in need, providing safe spaces for women and girls in lockdown; delivering babies; fighting locusts and running refugee camps, all amid the COVID-19 pandemic. #worldhumanitarianday #reallifeheroes

09.01.2022 Reposted from architecture_vic with special congratulations to AWF Network Partner Milieu! Congratulations to all winners announced at the 2020 National Architecture Awards live on the Institute’s YouTube! See link in architecture_vic bio to view all winners! . We will be featuring the Victorian projects that received a Named Award, or Commendation over the next couple of weeks.... . Award for Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing - 2020 National Architecture Awards Napier Street for Milieu // Freadman White @freadmanwhite // VIC // Traditional Land Owners: Wurundjeri-William people of the Kulin Nation // Gavin Green @gavin_green Congratulations Jury citation: Napier Street for Milieu, a small, speculative apartment building for a boutique development company, represents a clever, contextually responsive design with unusually fine grained detail for a project of its type. The mass of the five-storey block is split by an open-air atrium in the centre of the lot. This intimate yet dramatic communal space allows each dwelling to have a dual aspect and, with generous bridges spanning the atrium, also serves as the vestibule to all front doors. Planters integrated into balustrades and a warm materiality of timber and face brick immediately give this multi-layered space a domestic feel. The brickwork is an ingenious combination of as-found and sawn-finish, laid in a variety of bonds to make subtly textured surfaces. A mix of double-height townhouses and stacked single-height apartments addresses both the street and the rear lane. Large sliding doors behind balustrades offer full-height openings to the street, allowing living spaces to become deep terraces. Foregrounding civic and community values in multiple housing and celebrating the enduring qualities of modernism, Napier Street is emblematic of a new spirit in apartment buildings. #NatAwards20 #australianarchitecture #architecture #architectureawards #AustralianInstituteofArchitects #architect #australianarchitects #architecture_magazine #architecturestudents #architecturephotography #architecturephotos #amazingarchitecture #architecturelovers #archdaily

08.01.2022 Repost from bawinanga_aboriginal_corp On this human rights day 2020 Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation honours the amazing resilience of homelands communities. In the face of COVID-19 First Nations people in the Maningrida region secured their supplies, protected their outstations and were able to recover from the threat of the pandemic. Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation has taken the UN Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for its strategic goals which provided the s...caffolding for a Human Rights based recovery with a focus on redressing ‘entrenched systematic, and inter generational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination’ * experienced by First Nations people and more so, homelands and outstation communities. Pictured: Kalidjan Janet Marawarr, Gochan Freda Wayartja Ali and Gamanyjan Doreen Jinggarrabarra #humanrightsday #humanrightsday2020 #supporthomelands *from the UN website @unwomen @unitednationsaustralia @unitednations #sustainabledevelopmentgoals

08.01.2022 AWF Network Partner, Milieu Property, has demonstrated a strong commitment to ‘giving back’ by cultivating healthy relationships between business and community, especially during the pandemic. Through its contribution to the Homes for Homes initiative, Milieu is providing much needed support for social and affordable housing. In addition, the Open Kitchen venture provides complimentary take home meals for hospitality professionals impacted by COVID 19. #homesforhomes... AtMilieu, we are committed to creating spaces of positive influence and are therefore are pleased to announce our partnership with ‘Homes for Homes’ for our Brunswick East project. The foundation of Open Kitchen is the belief that an equitable society can be nourished by the relationship between business and community. Open Kitchen is a culinary cooperative by Milieu Hospitality, offering complimentary take home meals for two to hospitality professionals affected by the pandemic. Since launching in May, Open Kitchen volunteers have prepared and shared well over 1,200 meals with the pandemic impacted hospitality community. @milieuproperty #homesforhomes @milieuhospitality #covidinitiatives

07.01.2022 Like the rest of the world we will be quite happy to say farewell to 2020! We wish you a safe and happy holiday season and a much better 2021. Especially to all our friends in Fiji recovering from TC Yasa! Looking back we are surprised and delighted to have worked on so many important projects this year! Thank you to our local clients: Good Samaritan Inn Melbourne, CNLC Melbourne, Bushfire Education Foundation Victoria And our overseas clients: One Life to Love India, ...Soqosoqo Vakamarama I Taukei Cakaudrove Fiji, Maasai Girls Rescue Centre Tanzania, Uthman’s Dream Incorporated Uganda. You are an inspiration!! Thank you to our amazing Network Partners!! @clarkehopkinsclarke @hassell_studio @hatchrobertsday @hayball_arch @jcbarchitects @lci_consultants Meinhardt Bonacci Group @milieuproperty @nbrsarchitecture @aboutsjb @tractconsultants @wtpartnership And to our partner organisations!! @the_anganwadi_project @aussie_action_abroad @onelifeloved @c.nlc #womenoffiji #SVTC @maasaigirlsrescuecenter @uthmansdream.inc

06.01.2022 A resilient profession: The pioneers of landscape architecture, from the United States to Australia, saw what was needed in times of crisis, and had the vision and will to adapt. Now is another such moment. So, how should we, as a profession, respond? In a fascinating article @landscapeau Catherin Bull argues that COVID 19 has highlighted the importance of good urban design in healthy cities... Link in our bio... Published online: 16 Aug 2020 Words: Catherin Bull Images: John Gollings., John Oldham., Peter Bennetts, Roads and Maritime Services., State Library of Western Australia, 011386D @landscapeau #urbanresilience #designlikeyougiveadamn

05.01.2022 Reposted from @designdotstory Glass Half Full with Jane Rothschild, The Anganwadi Project. (@the_anganwadi_project @janerothschild) . Visit the link in our bio to read the entire conversation with Jane Rothschild.... . . . #glasshalffull #designdotcommunity #architecture #school #anganwadi #gooddesign #design #designinspo #designinspiration #architecturedesign #architectsofinsta #architecturelovers #architectureforkids #schooldesign #designlikeyougiveadamn See more

04.01.2022 AWF joins in congratulating Adi Salaseini Kavu Fong, President of the Soqosoqo Vakamarama iTaukei Cakaudrove (SVTC), who was presented with a commemorative medal for the 50th Anniversary of Fiji’s Independence. We share theses details from SVTC’s Facebook post: ‘The medal was in honour of her contribution to the vanua and yasana of Cakaudrove. Adi Salaseini Kavu Lesuma Fong, has spent a decade working with women in her province to preserve their culture and to empower women.... Together they formalised Soqosoqo Vakamarama iTaukei, a not-for-profit organisation based in Savusavu, Fiji Islands. With the assistance of Architects Without Frontiers (AWF Australia), DFAT, Clearview Architects and other stakeholders they completed phase one of project RaMarama Village, a hub for women to gather, meet, create, share knowledge and empower each other. They run workshops, weave mats and sell their crafts to gain income.’ #SVTC #SoqosoqoVakaMarama #womensSPACE #RaMaramaVillage #phaseone #WomenBuild #mypacificsister #SPWiN #DebraLoataFong #PIarchitect #cakaudrove #dfat #savusavu #womenoffiji #designlikeyougiveadamn Photographer: @james.mepham (photos of building)

04.01.2022 Very proud of our Executive Director today as she receives her Order of Australia, Professor Esther Ruth Charlesworth, for significant service to architecture, to education and to the community of the Asia Pacific region. Congratulations!!

04.01.2022 Reposted from @rmit_moddd Alumni Success Stories. MoDDD provides a global learning platform that enables students to work in the disaster and development fields. Listed places available for 2021, March or August start date.

04.01.2022 Repost from @rmit_moddd rmit_moddd MoDDD is hosting this special webinar series exploring how design can be used as a tool to deal with the huge global problems of our time. Focusing on a wealth of speakers and subjects related to designing for fragile times, your views on design and social agency will be challenged and expanded. MoDDD is now accepting students for pt and full time online study in 2021 and if you’re interested please use the link in the @rmit_moddd bio. ... #humanitarianism #disasterresponse #disasterresilience #crisismanagement See more

03.01.2022 Today we celebrate UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and particularly acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We are delighted to share this fantastic project by AWF Network Partner Tract. Tract is supporting the Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre to create an Indigenous Garden within its current Balam-Balam community garden on its site in inner suburban Melbourne. The purpose of the garden is to celebrate indigenous culture and to ackno...wledge the location of the CNLC on Wurundjeri land. The garden will include a range of local indigenous plants with a focus on water conservation as well as native food and medicinal plants to showcase to the community. The completion date is planned for November 2020 (COVID permitting) hopefully to be marked with an opening ceremony! A big thank you to all involved from CNLC, Tract and the indigenous community for making this such a positive project in difficult times! @cnlcmelbourne @tractconsultants #wurundjericountry #un4indigenous #designlikeyougiveadamn

03.01.2022 Chair of the Board of Architects Without Frontiers, Phillip Greenham is a lawyer, arbitrator and trainer who has been with AWF since 2017. Phil recently shared his insights on his experiences with AWF, the changes he has seen in the industry over the past thirty-five years and the opportunities for not for profit design organisations and built environment experts in a post Covid-19 world. We are primarily a society and not an economy. The economy is there to sustain and nurt...ure society rather than us being slaves to the economy. I think we have a real opportunity to remember what is the essence of human life that which nourishes the human spirit and soul. Read the full interview via the link in our bio #humanitarianarchitecture #covidinsights #architectswithoutfrontiers #transforminglivesthroughdesign

01.01.2022 Repost from @the_anganwadi_project HARIVILLU 2 PAINTING Gotta say.. how exciting is it when you start to see colour on your project... our little Anganwadi is coming to life! First coat getting applied #projectanganwadi #painting #buildinginindia #preschool #humanitarianarchitecture @rdt_anantapur @felicemarija @emillly.s.p @aranchaalvear @sarahschoffel