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The Australian Architecture Association (AAA) was set up in 2004 as a not for profit organisation to promote the understand of both local and world architecture in Australia. The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) is used as the model for the development of the organisation.
The Founding Committee
The founding committee has a mix of architects, marketing professionals and publicists. The founding President is Glenn Murcutt, winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize and the founding committee are, Wendy Lewin, Harry Seidler, Richard Johnson, James Grose, Ian Moore, Alex Popov, David Bare and Manu Siitonen. Supporting them are the founding directors, Stella de Vulder and Annette Dearing. Glenn Murcutt (born 25 July 1936, London, England) is an Australian Architect. ... The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. ... Harry Seidler (born 1923) is an Austrian-born architect who works in Australia and is considered to be one of the leading architects of the modern movement there and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia. ...