ANGELO CANDALEPAS
ANGELO CANDALEPAS
ANGELO CANDALEPAS – ANGELO CANDALEPAS AND ASSOCIATES
Angelo was born in Sydney and graduated from the University of Technology Sydney in 1992. He was made a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2019.
As an apprentice architect, he assisted Colin Madigan at Edwards Madigan Torzillo Briggs, the architects of the National Gallery of Australia and the High Court of Australia. He later worked under the guidance of Graham Jahn at Jahn Associates, where he was appointed associate in 1993.
In 1994, he established his own architecture studio, which in its first year of practice, won the International Design Competition for Housing in Pyrmont. The project was the recipient of several accolades. In the following five years Angelo won and was shortlisted for several national and international competitions.
Most recently, the firm, under Angelo’s leadership won a significant competition for The National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary project, a major part of a $1.7 billion arts initiative of the Victorian government and Australia’s largest gallery dedicated to contemporary art and design.
Angelo Candalepas and Associates was established in 1999 and since then the company has won a significant number of awards, including the Royal Institute of British Architects International Award for Excellence and the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Greenway Heritage Award in 2024, the AIA Sulman Medal for Public Architecture in 2009 and 2018, and the AIA Aaron Bolot Award for Residential Architecture numerous times. In 2016, he was awarded the Premier’s Award for Architecture in NSW.
Over the years, Angelo has been an advocate of contemporary architecture on projects such as the Cameron Offices, Canberra and the Queensland Art Gallery. He collaborated in a consultive role with Colin Madigan on the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) between 2000 and 2010. In the role, he and Madigan advised the NGA on the building fabric and future master planning in order to protect important contemporary heritage for future generations.
Angelo’s work has been acknowledged in Australian and international exhibitions, journals and books. In 2009, 10×10_3 (Phaidon Press, New York) described Candalepas Associates as one of the 100 most interesting emerging architecture offices in the world.
Angelo has lectured regularly at various universities across Australia including UTS and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, as well as universities in Newcastle, Queensland and Tasmania. In 2003, he was appointed Visiting Professor of Architecture at UNSW and since then has taught architectural design and theory for the final year of the Master of Architecture course.
Angelo has spoken at various national industry events, including the National Architecture Conference in Sydney (2000) and Melbourne (2007), Australia and international architecture forums in New Zealand, Mexico, India and Greece.
In 2010, Angelo was nominated President of the Australian Architecture Association and in 2011, Head Creative Director of the National Conference for the Australian Institute of Architects. In 2011, he was also appointed Head Curator for the ‘International Series Lectures’ run by the AIA.
Between 2008 and 2012, he was appointed by the Premier of the NSW State Government as an expert on the Design Excellence Review Panel for ‘Barangaroo’ and has sat on various advisory panels for the City of Sydney on other significant projects. In 2019, Angelo was appointed as a nationally elected Councillor for the AIA.
