Seasonal Salons

The Parlour Seasonal Salons are convivial quarterly events for the Parlour community, which have been running since 2016. Casual and welcoming, the salons are an opportunity to meet for conversation over refreshments, to form new networks and relationships and revive older ones.

Held to mark each season, the Parlour Salons connect architects at different stages of their lives and careers, and build networks across areas of expertise and interest. Each salon features a short public conversation between two people with different backgrounds and shared experiences – mentor and mentee, architect and client, emerging and experienced practitioners. Some conversation pairs know each other very well; others are meeting for the very first time. These public introductions set the scene for informal connections and discussions to follow.

Salons are held across Australia, and are hosted by a range of partners, organisations and practices – Brickworks is a particularly generous host.

If you are interested to help bring a Salon to your city or town, or to partner with us on the full program, get in touch!

Book for a Salon near you

Listen to Parlour POD

Recordings from the Salons have a new life on Parlour POD, available on your favourite podcasting platform or via the links below. A smaller number of Salons are also recorded as videos.

Heritage, collaboration & the human experience

Lucia Wellington, Harriet Edquist

10 November 2024

Enthusiasm, spontaneity & finding opportunity

Poppy Taylor, Clare Steen

8 November 2024

Choose your own adventure

Tania Davidge, Sophie Cleland

31 October 2024

Celebrating Gold

Maggie Edmond, Vanessa Bird

31 October 2024

Watch a Salon video

A limited number of Salons are available as video recordings.

Meanjin to Whangārei

Birdy Bird, Jade Kake

31 October 2024

Different practice sizes – the pros & cons

Hari Pliambas, Justine Brennan

31 May 2023

The science, art & impact of landscape architecture

Marti Fooks, Amalie Wright

13 February 2023

Politics, influence & making a difference

April McCabe, Amelia Lee

22 January 2023

Salon archive

For information about past Salons, refer to the event notices below. Many of these sessions are progressively being processed to become part of the Parlour POD (at which point the notice is removed from this archive).