Kieran co-founded CODA in 1997 and since then has been involved in a broad range of architecture and design projects. Under his leadership, CODA is now recognized as a leader in research and innovative design, providing advice and input into community infrastructure, built form guidelines and site-specific housing typologies.
Kieran is a valued contributor to the design, sustainability and artistic dialogue of Perth. His keen interest in research and teaching has seen him speak regularly at national conferences as well as contribute to university architecture programs. In recent years he has developed a reputation as an authoritative voice on issues surrounding social housing and residential affordability.
Kieran Wong's Latest contributions
Valuing architectural work: The human effects
Qualitative responses to the Wellbeing of Architects survey bring into question the real future for undervalued and exhausted architectural workers.
Leverage: Better services through design
Kieran Wong speaks with Mass Design Group’s founding principal and chief design officer Alan Ricks, whose global practice works with local partners to design projects that are optimized for their sites and create long term social value.
Architecture’s untapped opportunities to maximize advantage
The world has shifted into uncharted waters, and there is an even greater need to apply the architecture profession’s collective intelligence to the problems that face our communities and countries.
Reimagining a museum of our First Nations
The Quandamooka Art, Museum and Performance Institute (QUAMPI), designed by Cox Architecture, has received $4.5 million in funding from the state government.
Working in Indigenous communities: Fourth World problems
Kieran Wong laments the failings inherent in procuring essential work for Indigenous communities, a process in which politics, bureaucracy and a misguided push for innovation inhibit empowerment and reconciliation.
2018 WA Architecture Awards
The Australian Institute of Architects announced the winners of the 2018 Western Australian Architecture Awards on Friday, 29 June.
We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
Kieran Wong reflects on some of the wins and losses for architects in the realm of Indigenous housing, which underpins many of the Closing the Gap goals.
2017 WA Architecture Awards
The Australian Institute of Architects announced the winners of the 2017 Western Australian Architecture Awards on Friday, June 23, at the Crown Towers II Ballroom.
A space to exhale: Tom Fisher House
Western Australian architecture practice Coda has designed a night shelter, Tom Fisher House, that provides a moment of repose for those who are sleeping rough on the streets of Perth.
Carey Lyon: “Everything is a public building”
Emma Williamson and Kieran Wong (CODA Studio) talk with Carey Lyon.
