Justine Clark

Justine Clark is an architectural editor, writer, speaker and researcher, based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the editor of Parlour, a former editor of Architecture Australia, and co-author of Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern.

Education Born in New Zealand, As of 2023, she resides in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2000, Clark began working for Architecture Australia, the magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects, She was a collaborator on the Australia Research Council (ARC) linkage grant funded project "Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work, and Leadership", led by Dr Naomi Stead. Her involvement in this project lead to her position as founding editor of the online publication Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture, which began as a repository for the ARC research and is now an ongoing platform for the dissemination of research on gender, equity and architecture.

She has reviewed architecture for The Age newspaper and curates exhibitions. In addition to her work for Parlour she is a member the Office of the Victorian Government Architect's Design Review Panel

Clark is an advocate for systemic change in organisations to support more diverse workplaces. She says:Wouldn’t it be great if the procuring of buildings required the demonstration of a commitment to equity? (Justine Clark 2021)

Selected publications

Selected exhibitions 1996 Cuttings from the Centre, City Gallery, Wellington. Co-curator and co-designer with Sharon Jansen.

2000 Looking for the Local, an exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington. Co-designer and co-curator with Paul Walker.

Awards

Victorian Institute of Architects, Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media (2009) - for Architecture Australia's special issue on Indigenous Housing. Munro Diversity Award (2014), with Gill Matthewson, for establishing Parlour, and the promotion of diversity and equality in architecture. Victorian Institute of Architects, Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media (2015) - for her contribution to the Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice Marion Mahony Griffin Prize (2015). Victorian Institute of Architects 2019 President's Prize.