Architect inducted into DIA Hall of Fame

Seven prominent Australian designers working across architecture, interior design, fashion, graphic design, textiles and publishing will be inducted into the Design Institute of Australia’s Hall of Fame on 20 March..

Among the inductees is Jefa Greenaway, director of Greenaway Architects and co-founder and chair of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, Australia’s only Indigenous design association. In 2020, Greenaway is, with Tristan Wong, co-curating the Australia’s exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

He was previously a winner of the Australian Institute of Architect’s National Emerging Architect Prize, the Dulux Study Tour, and the inaugural Stormtech Scholarship to the Glenn Murcutt International Master Class. He was also an Honorary Senior Fellow at Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne from 2013 to 2017.

Interior designer Robert Backhouse, chairman, principal and head of design at Hassell, is also one of the inductees. Backhouse’s work at the practice includes a range of commercial and residential commissions, and this work has been feted with a number of awards.

Other inductees include: Prue Acton, a Melbourne fashion designer; Dorothy Erickson, the Western Australian artist-jeweller, historian, curator, editor and author; Alison Forbes, an independent book designer; Robert Geddes, a founding member and managing director of PROdesign and innovator in the patent and trademark application fields; and Jenny Grigg, a graphic designer who was creative director of Harper Collins and previously worked for Rolling Stone, HQ and MTV Australia.

An honorary fellowship will also be awarded to philanthoist and businessperson Naomi Milgrom, patron of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, which commissions the MPavilion each year (this year designed by Pritzker laureate Glenn Murcutt) and organizes the Living Cities Forum.

The induction presentation will take place on Friday 20 March at the National Gallery of Victoria. For tickets, click here.

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