The diverse built work of Officer Woods has been widely published and awarded at both state and national level across categories including public architecture, single and multiple residential design, small project architecture, suburban renewal, sustainability and steel architecture. Our designs for housing, urban design, public and education projects have been place-winners in key national competitions. Our work has been published in leading journals including Architecture Australia and A+U (Japan).
In 2017, Officer Woods was awarded the Sir Zelman Cowen National Award, the most significant public architecture prize awarded in Australia.
Directors
Jennie Officer
Trent Woods
Associate
Melita Tomic
Architects + Graduate Architects
Olivera Nenadovic
Nicola Ball
Nic Thuys
Samantha Dye
Oliver Nyman
Jennie Officer
Director, Architect RAIA
Jennie Officer is founding director of Officer Woods and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Western Australia. She is a past winner of the WA State Emerging Architect award (2010) and the Gil Nicol Travel Prize (2013) for enhancement of the built environment in WA. She makes regular contributions to architectural dialogue and knowledge by presentation and publication, and has served as a jury member at both State and National level for peer-reviewed awards programs across multiple categories. She is a current member of the inaugural WA State Design Review Panel and a current member of the City of Fremantle Design Advisory Committee. Jennie grew up in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia. Her background ensures resourcefulness and an ability to adapt and relate to a wide range of people and projects.
Trent Woods
Director, Architect RAIA
Trent Woods is a founding director of Officer Woods and winner of the Gil Nicol Travel Prize (2013) for enhancement of the built environment in WA. He has served as a Chapter Councillor for the Australian Institute of Architects WA Chapter (2010-16) and Urban Design Committee member (2009-15). Trent is a current member of the City of Rockingham Design Advisory Committee, and was a member of the City of Fremantle Economic Development Working Group. Trent’s architectural leadership combines strong design advocacy with rigorous project delivery knowledge.
Selected prizes, awards and grants
2023 World Architecture Festival – Completed Buildings – Best Higher Education and Research Building Boola Katitjin
2023 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards – Daryl Jackson Award for Educational Architecture Boola Katitjin
2023 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards – National Award for Sustainable Architecture Boola Katitjin
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Western Australia Awards – George Temple Poole Award Boola Katitjin
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Western Australia Awards – Wallace Greenham Award for Sustainable Architecture Boola Katitjin
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Western Australia Awards – Award for Educational Architecture (WA) Boola Katitjin
2023 Australian Timber Design Awards – People’s Choice Award Boola Katitjin
2023 Australian Timber Design Awards – Engineered Wood Product Project Boola Katitjin
2022 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Commendation for Residential Additions and Alterations Rule Street House Additions
2021 Shortlisted, National Houses Awards, House over 200m2 and House under 200m2 categories Burke Drive House and Torrens Street House
2020 Second place, Environment and Education Centre competition, Murdoch
2017 Australia Institute of Architects National Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture East Pilbara Arts Centre
2017 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture East Pilbara Arts Centre
2017 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Commendation for Sustainable Architecture East Pilbara Arts Centre
2017 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Commendation for Steel Architecture East Pilbara Arts Centre
2017 Second Place, Hilton Design Competition, Department of Communities Hilton Housing
2016 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Commendation for Residential Additions and Alterations Boulevarde House
2015 Finalist, Premier’s Awards for Excellence in Public Sector Management East Pilbara Arts Centre
2015 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Peter Overman Award for Residential Architecture Monash Avenue House
2014 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Sustainability Commendation Gold Street House
2013 Gil Nicol Travel Award for contribution to the built environment in Western Australia
2012 Australian Institute of Architects National Commendation for Residential Architecture-Multiple Housing Stevens Street
2012 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Harold Krantz Multi-Residential Award Stevens Street
2012 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Wallace Greenham Sustainability Award Stevens Street
2012 BPN National Architecture Awards for Sustainability, Multiple Density Residential Winner Stevens Street
2011 Australia Institute of Architects (WA) Single Residential Award Silver Creek House
2011 First Place, Martumili Artists Architectural Competition (UWA, BHPBilliton, Shire of East Pilbara) East Pilbara Arts Centre
2011 Second Place, National ‘About Face’ Think Brick Competition
2010 Inaugural Emerging Architect (WA) prize, Jennie Officer
2006 Second Place, National Building for Diversity Competition, Department of Housing and EPRA
Selected exhibitions, juries and presentations
2024 Co-curator (with Nigel Bertram, NMBW and Monash University) ‘The Architecture Symposium: Readymade’ Melbourne, Victoria (August 2024)
2023 Invited Speakers ‘WA Regional Architecture Symposium’, Yallingup, WA
2023 Invited Speakers ‘A Broader Landscape: Giving voice to Australia’s world-class architects’ Curated by Kerstin Thompson + Philip Arnold, Sydney NSW
2022 Chair of Juries, Educational Architecture, AIA WA
2022 Invited Speakers ‘The Architecture Symposium’, : Leveraging Limit’ Curated by Anita Panov and Andrew Scott
2020 Jury member, Future Homes Competition, State Government of Victoria
2020 Jury member, Australian Institute of Architects National Awards jury
2019 Chair of Juries, Public Architecture, AIA WA
2018 ‘Conversations on Design for the Regions in WA’ Dean’s Lecture UWA School of Design Dialogues
2018 Invited Speakers, Pilbara Creative and Cultural Forum, Newman WA
2018 Invited Speakers ‘The Architecture Symposium’, Curated By Wendy Lewin and Angelo Candalepas, Sydney Architecture Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2018 ‘Material Considerations’ The Role of Materials in Design: Tradition and Technology in Rural and Urban Settings Materials Symposium UWA School of Design
2018 Invited Jury Member, National Houses Competition
2017 Invited Speakers, Brickworks Double Talk series, Melbourne
2017 Chair of Juries, Educational Architecture, AIA WA
2014 Jury Member, George Temple Poole Award AIA WA
2013 Invited Speakers, ‘Affirmative Architecture Symposium’, Sydney
2012 Invited Speaker, ‘Tusculum Talks’, Sydney
2008 Selected Exhibitors, Abundant Exhibition, Venice Architecture Biennale
Selected publications
2023 Pendal, Simon Boola Katitjin by Lyons et al Architecture Australia, September 2023
2021 Officer, Jennie WA Museum: Boola Bardip Architecture Australia May/June 2021
2020 Bruhn, Cameron (ed) East Pilbara Arts Centre in MMXX Two Decades of Australian Architecture, Thames and Hudson 2020
2019 Officer, Jennie Elizabeth Quay: ARM Architecture and TCL Architecture Australia Vol. 108, No. 5, September 2019
2019 Officer, Jennie The Creamery, Bannister Downs Dairy Architecture Australia Jan/Feb 2019
2018 East Pilbara Arts Centre, Architecture and Urbanism: A+U Sustainability in Australia 18:09
2018 Officer, Jennie Australia’s First Baugruppe Architecture Australia, Vol. 107, No. 3, May/Jun 2018
2018 Officer, Jennie Resourcefulness, Endurance, Prosperity The Architect (WA) Spring/Summer 2018
2017 Lilleyman, Andrew East Pilbara Arts Centre Architecture Australia, Vol. 106, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2017: 16-23
2017 Melsom, Chris East Pilbara Arts Centre: Understated The Architect WA Spring/Summer 2017: 64-69
2016 Officer, Jennie ‘Bending the Rules’ , Future West: Australian Urbanism, Issue 2 2016 pp50-55
2016 ‘Officer Woods’ Architectural Review Asia Pacific AR143 December 2015-March 2016
2015 Ringer, Ron ‘Gold Street House’ in Materiality: Brick and Block in Contemporary Australian Architecture Brickworks Building Products (Dry Press Publishing: 2015)
2012 Officer, Jennie ‘Brian Klopper; A Practising Architect’, Brian Klopper Architecture Projects, UWA pp 10-15
2011 Churchill, Lyn, Silver Creek House by Officer Woods Architects Houses Volume 83, December
2011 Stickells, Lee ‘One to Watch: Officer Woods’, Australian Design Review AR122
2003 Officer, Jennie ‘In Between’ Architecture Australia, pp 72-75, May-June 2003
Carbon Neutral
Officer Woods has been a carbon neutral organisation since 2019. We are independently audited regularly to ensure we maintain this status.
We purchase offsets from the Biodiverse Reforestation Carbon Offsets in the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, which has Gold Standard accreditation - a globally recognised best practice benchmark for genuine emission reduction projects that deliver long term, sustainable development.
Our process is tailored to our clients.
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