Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore will present the opening keynote at the 2023 Australian Architecture Conference.
Moore is the longest serving mayor in the history of the City of Sydney. First elected in 2004, she is currently serving her fifth term.
She was also concurrently the Member for Sydney in the NSW Parliament and Lord Mayor of Sydney for eight years until 2012.
Moore has shaped the City of Sydney as a place of award-winning facilities, including Surry Hills Library and Community Centre by FJMT (now FJC Studio), and Green Square Library and Plaza by Studio Hollenstein in association with Stewart Architecture.
She has also promoted design excellence in private developments, as well as initiated progressive affordable housing solutions and strategies to reduce homelessness.
Moore has been a champion of progressive policies and reforms for the protection of the environment, and the vulnerable, as well as policies that increase government transparency. She initiated the Sustainable Sydney 2030 plan, as well as its update Sustainable Sydney 2030–2050, which have been internationally celebrated for their strategies to build a green, liveable, inclusive and creative city.
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to local government, to the people and the Parliament of New South Wales.
Moore joins London-based Australian architect Kevin Carmody and journalist Stan Grant as keynote speakers of the two-day conference to be held at the Kambri Cultural Centre, Australian National University in Canberra. Denise Scott Brown open the conference in a pre-recorded video.
The Australian Architecture Conference is organized by the Australian Institute of Architects. The program also includes panel discussions, masterclasses, skills labs, and concurrent sessions.
Registrations close 6 October. For the full program, see the Australian Architecture Conference website.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
