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Shelley Jane Penn AM (born 1965) is a Melbourne-based award-winning architect, educator, urbanist and built environment advocate.

Education[edit]

Penn was educated at Kilvington girls grammar and completed her architectural training at Melbourne University in 1988, graduating with honours.[1] She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) course.

Professional career[edit]

Practice[edit]

In 1993, Penn established the firm Shelley Penn Architects as a hybrid practice initially specialising in residential design and shifting focus to include consultation to government and the private sector on public projects from 1999.[2] Her work has been awarded and exhibited nationally and internationally.[3]

Government[edit]

Penn has held several positions within state and federal government and in 2014 was recognised as a leading figure in Public Policy within the top 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review and Westpac Bank.[4] In 2006, she became the first Associate Victorian Government Architect, and a member and then Chair of the National Capital Authority from 2009 to 2014 and the deputy chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria from 2008 to 2012. She has undertaken numerous consultancies as a strategic advisor and reviewer, including conducting major reviews for government including co-chairing the 2011 Barangaroo Review[5]. She has served on multiple Victorian, South Australian and New South Wales local and state government Design Review Panels for projects of all scales.

Professional advocacy[edit]

Penn is an active member of the architecture industry's peak body, the Australian Institute of Architects, including having held numerous positions on local and national committees and task forces. After a two-year term as an elected member and Honorary Secretary of the Australian Institute of Architects National Council, in May 2012 Penn was elected as the council's 73rd National President. She was only the third woman elected to the role after Louise Cox in 1994 and Melinda Dodson in 2009.[6] Her election as president was particularly notable given that only a small group of sole practitioners are elected to the volunteer role despite more than half of the institute's members identifying as sole practitioners.[2] She is a Life Fellow of the institute.[7]

In addition to advocacy through representation, Penn is an active contributor to professional discourse. She has been a panellist in numerous public debates, published in many leading professional journals, including Architecture Australia, Architecture and Design, Monument and Artichoke, and is a regular contributor for Parlour; an online forum for the advocacy of women and equity in architecture.[8]

Educator[edit]

Penn is currently an adjunct professor in Architectural Practice at Monash University[9] and associate professor in Architecture at University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Design.[10] She has also taught, co-ordinated and guest critiqued Bachelor and Masters students at Monash, RMIT, Deakin and Melbourne University, since her own graduation in 1988.

Awards and recognition[edit]

In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours Penn was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to architecture and design in the public realm, and to professional institutes".[11]

Selected appointments[edit]

  • 2019 - Jury, TAS Chapter Awards, Australian Institute of Architects[12]
  • 2017-: Monash University Architect[13]
  • 2017- : Non-executive Director, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art[14]
  • 2017- : Panel Member, State Design Review Panel, NSW
  • 2012-: Advisory Panel Member, Women's Property Initiative
  • 2012-2016 : Panel member, Capital City Design Review Panel, Adelaide
  • 2016-2018: Council member, Melbourne High School
  • 2012– : Panel Member, Victorian Design Review Panel
  • 2014–2016: Council Member, Williamstown High School
  • 2009–2014 Member then chair, National Capital Authority[1]
  • 2012–2014: Chair, Architecture Advisory Board, Faculty of Architecture, University of Melbourne
  • 2012–2013: National President, Australian Institute of Architects[14]
  • 2013: Jury Chair, National Architecture Awards, Australian Institute of Architects[15]
  • 2011–2012: Board Member, Architecture Media
  • 2008–2012: Deputy Chair, Heritage Council of Victoria[16]
  • 2009–2012: Board Member, Linking Melbourne Authority[16]
  • 2009–2012: Honorary Secretary, Australian Institute of Architects
  • 2012: Chair of Juries, Victorian Chapter Awards, Australian Institute of Architects[17]
  • 2011: Jury Chair, ACT Chapter Awards, Australian Institute of Architects[18]
  • 2006–2010: Associate Victorian Government Architect, Office of the Victorian Government Architect[16]
  • 2010 Chair, Premier's Design Awards, State of Design Victoria
  • 2006–2009: Board Member, Architects Registration Board of Victoria
  • 2002–2004: Member, Victorian Design Advisory Council
  • 2000–2001: Design Director, Office of the NSW Government Architect[19]

Work (built)[edit]

  • Richmond Warehouse, Melbourne (Awarded the Residential Alterations and Extensions Award of Merit at the 2000 Royal Institute of Architects Victorian Awards)[20]
  • Fitzroy Terrace, Melbourne[21]
  • Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne
  • Overcliffe House, Potts Point, in collaboration with Clinton Murray Architects[22] (Awarded the Residential Architecture Award at the 2002 Royal Institute of Architects NSW Awards)[23]
  • Eastern Beach house, Port Fairy, in collaboration with Clinton Murray Architect[24] (Finalist, Best Residential Design, 2008 Timber Design Awards)[25][26]

Work (public discourse)[edit]

  • "Gender Salary Gap Not So Great", ArchitectureAU, 13 February 2013
  • "Women in Architecture", ArchitectureAU, 3 July 2012
  • "Fitzroy Community School Creative Space", Architecture Australia, (September 2011)
  • "Habitat 21", Architecture Australia, (May 2011)
  • "Housing in Victoria", Architecture Australia (March/April 2007)
  • "Why architecture matters", Architecture Australia (January/February 2007)
  • "Urban Parasite", Monument, (December 2002/January 2003)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Doherty, Megan (14 July 2012). "Vowing to safeguard the capital". ACT News. Canberra Times. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b Bleby, Michael (12 July 2012). "Build life skills first". BRW. The Financial Review. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. ^ "AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE Living the Modern". AA Projects. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  4. ^ Stewart, Claire (2 October 2014). "Revealed: 100 High Achievers" (PDF). Australian Financial Review. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  5. ^ Harford, Sonia (16 March 2018). "Project to increase listing of women architects in Wikipedia". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Shelley Penn appointed as AIA National President". Australian Design Review. Niche Media. 1 June 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Shelley Penn, Architect". Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Posts by Shelley Penn". Parlour Authors. Parlour. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Shelley Penn: Adjunct Professor of Architecture Practice". MADA | People. Monash University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  10. ^ "Shelley Penn". Vivid Sydney. NSW Government. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  11. ^ "Ms Shelley Jane Penn". It's An Honour. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  12. ^ Mulcahy, Shamus (8 April 2019). "From The Tas Chapter President". Australian Institute of Architects. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Estates Committee Standing Committee of Monash University Council" (PDF). Monash University. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  14. ^ a b "Shelley Penn". M Pavilion. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  15. ^ "2013 National Architecture Awards: Jury overview". ArchitectureAU. Arch Media. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  16. ^ a b c "Shelley Penn | Architect". Victorian Design Review Panel. Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  17. ^ "2012 Victorian Architecture Awards". ArchitectureAU. Arch Media. 30 June 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  18. ^ "2011 Australian Capital Territory Architecture Awards". ArchitectureAU. Arch Media. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  19. ^ "Contemporary Australian Architects 2002 Speaker Series". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  20. ^ "RAIA State Awards". ArchitectureAU. Arch Media. 1 July 2000. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  21. ^ "Fitzroy Terrace". Architectural Review (77). Spring 2001.
  22. ^ "Overcliffe Cottage". Clinton Murray Architects. Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  23. ^ "Overcliffe House". InDesign. November 2002.
  24. ^ "Mulbring House". Clinton Murray Architects. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  25. ^ "2008 Timber Design Awards Winners Announced". Australian Timber Design Awards. November 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  26. ^ "Eastern Beach House". Monument (Residential Special). 2007.

External links[edit]

  • Shelley Penn Architects practice website
  • People: Shelley Penn, profile on the Office of the Victorian Government Architect website
  • "Shelley Penn profile", profile by Bluescope Steel Profile Magazine
  • People: Shelley Penn, profile on the Wheeler Centre website
  • "Build Life Skills First", an interview with Shelley Penn on the Financial Review website
  • "Introducing Shelley Penn (Part 1)", an interview with Shelley Penn on ArchiTel
  • "Introducing Shelley Penn (Part 2)" an interview with Shelley Penn on ArchiTel
  • "Shelley Penn" in Clark, Justine; Davidge, Tania; De Guia, Elyica; Jeffery, Anna; Wilson, Bernadette eds (January 2013). "The Women of Victorian Architecture". Architect Victoria: 6–7. http://www.architecture.com.au/docs/default-source/vic-chapter-publications/summer.pdf
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