The Victorian Architecture Awards are granted annually by the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. They began with the Street Architecture Medal, awarded between 1929 and 1942. Apart from a single award in 1954, annual awards did not resume until 1964, backdated by one year.75 Years of Victorian Architecture Awards
Australian Institute of Architects To mark the 75th Victorian Architecture Awards in 2003, the Institute published ''Judging Architecture – Issues, Divisions, Triumphs'', which lists all awards since 1929.

Awards

The most prestigious award has been variously called the Medal, the Bronze Medal, or Merit Award, but since but since 1987 it has been called the Victorian Architecture Medal. The numbers and categories of awards has expanded and changed over the years. Since the 1990s, some categories have been named after famous architects or firms who have practiced in Victoria. Current awards include: * Victorian Architecture Medal *

William Wardell William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) was a civil engineer and architect, notable not only for his work in Australia, the country to which he emigrated in 1858, but for a successful career as a surveyor and ecclesiastical architect in En ...

Award for Public / Institutional Architecture * Public Architecture Award (Alterations and Additions) * Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design *

Sir Osborn McCutcheon ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

Award for Commercial Architecture * John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture / Conservation *

Harold Desbrowe-Annear Harold Desbrowe-Annear (16 August 1865 – 22 June 1933) was an influential Australian architect who was at the forefront of the development of the Arts and Crafts movement in the country. During the 1890s he was an instructor in architecture a ...

Award for Residential Architecture Houses – New * John and Phyllis Murphy Award for Residential Architecture Houses – Alterations and Additions * Best Overend Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing * Kevin Borland Award for Small Project Architecture * Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture * Allan and Beth Coldicutt Award for Sustainable Architecture * Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture * Award for Enduring Architecture *

Melbourne Prize The Melbourne Prize is an Australian architectural award. It is awarded annually at the Victorian Architecture Awards by a jury appointed by the Victorian chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects to architectural projects that have made ...

* Regional Prize *

Bates Smart Bates Smart is an architectural firm with studios in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1853 by Joseph Reed, it is known as one of Australia's oldest architectural firms. Over the decades, the firm's multidisciplinary practices involv ...

Award for Architecture in the Media * President's Prize for the Hall of Fame * 25 Year Award

References

External links

Victorian Architecture Awards – Major categories
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