The Jury

Geoffrey London - Chair

B. Arch (UWA), AA GradDip, BA Fine Arts, GradDip Art & Design (WAIT), FRAIA

Geoffrey London was appointed the Western Australian Government Architect in 2004 and has been the Professor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia's (UWA) Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts since 1992, where he has also served as Dean and Head of the School.

He also holds the position of Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is a past Chair of the Committee of Heads of Architecture Schools of Australasia. He is a past President of the Western Australian Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the RAIA, has served as a juror many times for the RAIA (WA) Architecture Design Awards and as the Chair of Juries. Geoffrey is a graduate of UWA and the Architectural Association in London and has been a practising architect for over 25 years.

Adèle Naudé Santos

AADip(SADG) MAUD (Harvard) March, MCP (UPenn), RIBA, FAIA

Adèle is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and a founding principal of the San Francisco-based firm of Santos Prescott & Associates. She has completed numerous award-winning projects in Africa, Japan and the United States, including civic buildings, exhibition and arts facilities, and luxury and affordable housing developments, as well as major planning and urban design projects.

She has won many design competitions and served as a juror for numerous international competitions and award programs. Previous academic appointments include Chair of the Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania, founding Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of California, San Diego, and visiting professorships at Harvard, Rice, Berkeley and universities in Italy and her native South Africa. Adèle studied at the Architectural Association in London and received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard, as well as a Master of Architecture and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Leon van Schaik

B.Arch Studies(Ncle) AADip(SADG) MArch(UCT) PhD(CNAA) RIBA, ARCUK, LFRAIA

Leon is Innovation Professor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia where he instituted a pioneering criterion-based process for consultant appointment that has transformed the university’s reputation for architecture and urban design through award winning buildings.

He has served in many consultant appointment processes including a Civic Centre in a regional city in New South Wales, the Australian Center for Contemporary Art and the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, and the UNISA Faculty of Architecture building in Adelaide. Leon studied at the Architectural Association in London and has designed and built complex educational buildings, art galleries and factories, as well as providing design leadership to the RMIT Technology Estate and the ecologically responsive RMIT university campus in Vietnam. In 2003 he was made a Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in recognition of his services to architecture .

R. J. (Gus) Ferguson

A. Arch PTC, Hon. D. Arch (UWA), LFRAIA

Gus is the Director of Ferguson Architects, one of the most highly respected practices in Western Australia which he has lead for over 40 years.

In that time he has won numerous awards and honours for buildings and master plans, with a particular focus on educational facilities and campus planning initiatives for The University of Western Australia, Curtin University of Technology, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University.

In 1998, he was awarded a Senate Medal by Murdoch University for "outstanding service to the University and the community" and two years later, an honorary Doctorate by The University of Western Australia with a similar citation. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and in 1991 received the Architects' Board Award for services to the profession.

Michael Lynch

Michael Lynch took up his appointment as Chief Executive of the South Bank Centre on 2 September 2002. Previously Michael was the Chief Executive of the Sydney Opera House, a position he took up in September 1998. Michael has had a long career in arts administration and film and television.

Michael was formerly General Manager of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body, from August 1994 to August 1998. Prior to this he was the General Manager of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1989 to 1994.

In his earlier working life he was a casting director with his own agency Forcast, an agent for the performing arts and film and television, and produced the feature film Raw Nerve in 1988. He began his career at the Australia Council for the Arts in 1973 and was a former manager of the Nimrod Theatre and Administrator of the Australian National Playwrights Conference.

In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to arts administration. He has served as Chairman of the Australia Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres (AAPPAC) and as the only non-North American member of the Performing Arts Centres Consortium (PACC) of North America.

Alastair Bryant

Alastair is Director General of the Department of Culture and the Arts with a portfolio comprised of the Art Gallery of WA, the WA Museum, the State Library of WA, the State Records Office, Perth Theatre Trust and ScreenWest. He serves on the Boards of these organisations and is also a founding Trustee and Deputy Chair of the Healing Hearts Foundation and a foundation member and past President of the Heirisson Rotary Club.

Before joining the Department of Culture and the Arts, he was Commissioner of State Revenue in Western Australia, a position he held for six years. Alastair has a Bachelor of Business degree, a Master of Leadership and Management, and is a fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and a fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.