Join us for the prestigious Griffin Lecture address at the Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science on Friday 7 November 2025.
The Griffin Lecture is named in honour of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahon Griffin. It addresses the big issues in architecture and design, and underlines the role they play in improving our homes, towns and cities.
Since its first delivery in Canberra in 1961, the Griffin Lecture has addressed big topics in architecture and design with speakers including former Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam, John Gorton and Macolm Turnbull, architects Romaldo Giurgola and Sir Roy Grounds, historian Manning Clark, Lord Mayors of Sydney Clover Moore and Lucy Turnbull, commentator Phillip Adams, art scholar Edmund Capon, radio and TV host Tim Ross, and Kevin McCloud - presenter of the television program Grand Designs UK.
In 2025 we invite globally renowned architect Gregory Burgess. Gold Medal Winner 2004, nominated for Enduring Architecture in this year's National Architecture Awards for his work on the Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre at Uluru to take forward the discussion. Gregory is an architect with a long history of engaging community in the built form, and will speak on the role architecture and design play in the improving the built fabric of our homes, town and cities.
Don't miss this opportunity, register now to attend this highly anticipated event.
The 2025 Griffin Lecture is proudly supported by:
Gregory Burgess AM LFRAIA received the Australian Institute of Architects' highest honour in 2004, the Gold Medal. Burgess is renowned for his architectural work for Indigenous communities in Australia, and for his participatory design approach. In his career spanning over 50 years, Greg Burgess has gained national and international accolades, having received more than forty awards over the last twenty years. Gregory Burgess Architects' project 'The Uluru Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre' is shortlisted for the Enduring Architecture Award at the National Architecture Awards 2025.
His designs for houses, schools, community buildings for health and cultural interpretation, and particularly his work in designing innovative buildings with and for Indigenous Australians are all rich with messages about nature, materials, and the fundamentals of dwelling, human interaction and public space.
The 2025 Griffin Lecture
Date: Friday 7 November 2025
Time: 3:45 - 5:15pm
Location: The Shine Dome
15 Gordon Street, Acton ACT 2601
The forecourt area of the Shine Dome in Gordon Street is for set-down and pick-up only. Paid street parking (limited time) is available in Gordon and other local streets. Public paid carparks are within short walking distance to the Shine Dome—across the road on Gordon Street, or the Wilson carparks on London Circuit and under the Nishi Building in Phillip Law Street.