Royal Australian Institute of Architects

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ROYAL AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS

Official blazon

Arms : Per fesse Azure and Or masoned Sable, issuant from the fesse point a rising Sun Gold, overall an Ionic Column Gules.
Supporters : On either side a Kangaroo proper, collared and chained Or.
Motto: Artem Promovemus Una

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on September 28, 1956.

In 1927 the Federal Council of Australian Institutes of Architects adopted a design for the seal of the proposed Federal Institute by two Tasmanian architects, Alan Cameron Walker and Archibald Thomas Johnston, that was based upon the seal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, using kangaroos instead of lions and a rising sun in the shield.[137] The coat of arms granted by the College of Arms in 1956 was based upon this seal, as have all subsequent institute logos and badges, with the most recent version of the logo adopted in 2008.[137] The Latin motto was originally adopted at the suggestion of Victorian architect, William Arthur Mordey Blackett, at the 1928 Conference of the Federal Council of Australian Institutes of Architects, which discussed the establishment of the federal institute, with the motto's original translation given as "We advance our Art together"