The Australian Institute of Architects has introduced the appointment of Adam Haddow as nationwide president and present Victorian chapter president David Wagner to the place of nationwide president-elect.
Haddow’s tenure commenced on the conclusion of the 2025 Annual Basic Assembly on 3 Might. He assumed the position from Jane Cassidy, who has served as nationwide president the previous 12 months.
Haddow mirrored, “I’m each honoured and excited to be getting into the position of nationwide president of the Australian Institute of Architects. This can be a essential time for our nation and business. Sustainability is the best problem of our lives, housing affordability the best of our technology.”
Likening the position of nationwide president to one in all a relay runner “with no first or final runner,” Haddow famous that his “position is to choose up the place the final president completed and make sure that we run a very good race for the following.
“I have to congratulate our outgoing Nationwide President Jane Cassidy on her phenomenal work,” Haddow mentioned. “Of specific be aware I wish to level out Jane’s advocacy that led to all state and territory housing ministers agreeing on obligatory and aligned carbon reporting, her management in collaboration with the CEO to structurally realign the enterprise of the Institute to make sure we’re outfitted for the following 50 years, and her management in appointing the primary all First Nations curators to characterize Australia at this 12 months’s Architectural Venice Biennale.”
Haddow promised to proceed to champion Cassidy’s initiatives whereas “weaving three new targets” into the dialogue:
“First, an absolute deal with our career being within the driving seat to assist clear up the nationwide housing disaster,” he mentioned.
“Second, that as an organisation we work out how one can higher pay attention, interact and mobilise our regional, rural and worldwide members.
“Lastly, an enormous ambition – a seismic shift in considering from Architects to Structure for the Institute and its advocacy agenda. Working along with Nationwide Council, the Board and plenty of factions of affect – we’ll work to uncover a extra outward dealing with organisation that may proceed to advocate for the position of structure in our communities. We want the teachers, design managers, venture managers, panorama architects, city designers and inside designers who all skilled in structure to be a part of us – in order that collectively, and with numbers, we will advocate extra broadly for what we consider in – that by good design Australia is a greater place.”
