Simon Pendal is founder of the Perth-based architectural practice Simon Pendal Architect and a Senior Lecturer in architecture at the University of Notre Dame.
Simon Pendal's Latest contributions
Boola Katitjin by Lyons et al
Part of Murdoch University’s 20-year masterplan, a new, monumental mass-timber building expands the character of the bush campus and provides spaces geared toward contemporary, collaborative learning methods.
Vale Bernard Seeber, 1949–2022
Award-winning Perth architect Bernard Seeber is remembered as an energetic and optimistic person with egalitarian values and a fascination for human behaviour.
Five houses of Officer Woods
Robust, versatile and seasonally responsive, the distinctive houses of this Fremantle studio are shaped not by the transience of fashion but rather the everyday patterns of habitation.
Tokyo calling: North Perth House
An arched concrete house in inner-city Perth takes its cues from a Tokyo library to create chambers of space and a sense of loftiness, despite its small site.
‘Memory palace’: Subiaco House
A new house in Perth at once recollects and reconsiders the suburban house, employing a garden room to mediate between individual and collective suburban life.
First House: Fremantle House
Architect Simon Pendal reflects on his first project, his own house in Fremantle WA, which he built with his life partner Rebecca Angus.
Palladian rules: House with a Guest Room
In his design of this thoughtful and “radically judicious suburban villa” in coastal New South Wales, Andrew Power has appealed to strict classical sensibilities with artful familiarity and wit.
Covert suburban intensity: Knutsford Stage 1
This multiresidential design by Spaceagency Architects contributes to a local canon of intriguing medium-density projects in Perth with “deep pragmatism” and “tactile and poetic sensitivity.”
Joyous learning: Bunbury Catholic College
A collaboration between Broderick Architects and CODA Studio results in “something significant and joyous” for a school in WA.
