The Australian Institute of Architects recently established a foundation dedicated to promoting architecture and design to the general public through a programme of national initiatives. The former director for the New South Wales Art Gallery, Edmund Capon, serves as foundation president. One of the foundation’s first initiatives was launched in September 2013: the Droga Architect in Residence grant. It offers a three-month residency in the Droga apartment in Sydney, offered to a foreign architect in the hope of fostering exchanges of ideas and approaches between Australian architects and their foreign colleagues. The first recipient, Catalan architect Carmen Fio-Costa, moved to Sydney in March.

Carmen Fiol-Costa

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