David Kaunitz

BUILT ENVIRONMENT JUROR

David Kaunitz co-founded Kaunitz Yeung Architecture to focus on facilitating high quality architecture in some of the most disadvantaged communities and First Nations People in Australia and Asia-Pacific.

Underlying this is a deep commitment to participatory design and local construction. He has created a new paradigm that shows high quality, change making architecture is not a matter of cost, but of commitment.

He has worked in more than 40 Indigenous communities and authored the 2017 update to the Australian Government Department of Health’s ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Funded Capital Works Projects – Facility Design Guidelines’.

He was the recipient of the 2020 NSW Australian Institute of Architect Reconciliation Prize, and the prestigious UIA Vassilis Sgoutas prize for Implemented Architecture Serving the Underprivileged.

Kaunitz Yeung Architecture’s numerous awards in Australia and abroad have included European Healthcare Design Awards, World Community Architecture Award, and the inaugural ArchitectureAU Award for Social Impact.