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Kelvin Ho of Akin Atelier shares the origin story of his career, his first and latest projects, and the journey between.

First and last: Kelvin Ho of Akin Atelier

11 Oct 2023, Adair Winder

In this interview we wind back the clock as Kelvin Ho of Akin Atelier shares the origin story of his career in architecture, his first and latest projects, and the journey between.

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Left, Ronnen Goren, right, Fabio Ongarato.

First and last: Studio Ongarato

23 May 2023, Isla Sutherland

After 30 years in practice together, Ronnen Goren and Fabio Ongarato reflect on their first and most recent way-finding projects for civic institutions.

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Sonia Simpfendorfer is the director at Nexus Designs.

First and Last: Sonia Simpfendorfer of Nexus Designs

23 Jan 2023, Isla Sutherland

Director at Nexus Designs, Sonia Simpfendorfer shares her earliest and most recent projects, reflecting on the learnings over her 30-year career.

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Peter Maddison's last season as host of Grand Designs Australia goes to air on 25 January 2023.

Peter Maddison on what makes Grand Designs Australia unique

20 Jan 2023, Josh Harris

Reflecting on more than a decade of hosting Grand Designs Australia, Peter Maddison discusses some of his favourite (and least favourite) projects.

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Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe.

Placemaking over object-making: Shim-Sutcliffe

16 Jan 2023, Isla Sutherland

Brigitte Shim talks to ArchitectureAU about Canadianness in architecture, the use of time as material, and the difference between placemaking and object-making.

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Architect Kevin Mark Low, director at Small Projects.

Radical questioning and the primacy of context: Kevin Low

15 Dec 2022, Isla Sutherland

Kevin Mark Low of Small Projects speaks with ArchitectureAU about shifting paradigms, finding meaning in the details, and creating relationships through context.

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Design Office co-director and founder Mark Simpson.

First and Last: Mark Simpson of Design Office

9 Nov 2022, Isla Sutherland

The Artichoke newsletter is launching a new profile series, “First and Last”, diving into the careers of eminent designers, from their earliest project to their most recent.

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'All constraints can be turned into good': Lacaton and Vassal

‘All constraints can be turned into good’: Lacaton and Vassal

28 Jul 2022, Isla Sutherland

Lacaton and Vassal’s architecture celebrates openness, both in its generous provision of air and light and in its conspicuous attempts to do more on a smaller budget.

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Johannes Molander Pedersen and Morten Gregersen, founding partners of Nord Architects, together with Mia Baarup Tofte, who joined the partnership in 2017.

Conversations across borders with Nord Architects

25 Nov 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Morten Rask Gregersen and Johannes Molander Pedersen of the Danish practice Nord Architects were Droga Architects in Residence in 2015.

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Burying Howard Roark with 2016 Droga Architect in Residence Liz Ogbu

Burying Howard Roark with Liz Ogbu

16 Nov 2021, Josh Harris

The 2016 Droga Architect in Residence Liz Ogbu reminisces about her experience in Australia and discusses the fight for spatial justice.

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Carmen Fiol-Costa, of Arriola & Fiol Arquitectes Barcelona.

Urban civic projects: Carmen Fiol-Costa

1 Feb 2021, Josh Harris

Barcelona-based architect and urban designer Carmen Fiol-Costa, the first Droga Architect in Residence, looks back on her time in Australia.

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What can the daily market teach us about civic space? A conversation with Alexis Şanal

What can the daily market teach us about civic space?

12 Jan 2021, Josh Harris

Istanbul-based architect Alexis Şanal was the Droga Architect in Residence in 2018, undertaking research into market spaces and public life.

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How About Studio’s Nick Wood with his orange awning-viewing trolley in Sydney.

The London architect and Sydney’s street awnings

14 Dec 2020, Josh Harris

As part of a continuing series on the Droga Architect In Residence program, ArchitectureAu spoke with How About Studio founder Nick Wood, the 2015 resident.

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Dobie house, Buderim, 1972.

The inspirations and convictions of a ‘bloody rebel’ – Gabriel Poole

21 May 2020, Elizabeth Musgrave

In November 2015, the late Gabriel Poole sat down with academic Elizabeth Musgrave and Lindsay Clare for a wide ranging interview. This edited transcript is published for the first time.

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Sharon Egretta Sutton.

Rebellion, revolution and disruption: Sharon Egretta Sutton

6 Nov 2019, Sarah Akigbogun

In this wide-ranging interview architect, activist and academic Sharon Egretta Sutton reflects on action and rebellion in the 1960s, income inequality, and the urgent need for disruption in architecture schools today.

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Next Architects' design for Dafne Schippersbrug (Dafne Schippers Bicycle Bridge) in Oog in Al, Utrecht integrates a bicycle and pedestrian bridge with a school and a public park.

Marijn Schenk: Catalyzing connections

17 Oct 2019, LandscapeAustralia Editorial Desk

Marijn Schenk, co-founder of Dutch practice Next Architects, spoke with Landscape Australia about collaboration, new perspectives and the pursuit of social and ecological agendas.

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Christian Bason.

Design thinking and regional cities: Christian Bason

12 Mar 2019, Linda Cheng

Danish Design Centre CEO Christian Bason on leveraging design thinking and local cultures, skills and capabilities to help regional centres regenerate after industrial decline.

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Kengo Kuma.

Kengo Kuma on ‘the mother of architectural design’

17 Nov 2016, Linda Cheng

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma spoke with ArchitectureAU on the values of regionalism, critical writing and the need for architects to be “humble.”

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Facet Studio's Doshisya Kyotonabe Chapel, Kyoto, Japan.

Facet Studio

18 Feb 2016, Yoshihito Kashiwagi, Olivia Shih

An interview with architects Olivia Shih and Yoshihito Kashiwagi of Sydney/Osaka-based Facet Studio.

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The brains behind the Australian House of the Year 2015, Jesse Bennett and Anne-Marie Campagnolo

Joyful, simple and inspiring: Jesse Bennett and Anne-Marie Campagnolo

4 Aug 2015, Urbis Editorial Desk

The brains behind the Australian House of the Year 2015, Jesse Bennett and Anne-Marie Campagnolo, speak about their career and their labour of love.

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Interview: Anton James

Interview: Anton James

27 Jan 2015

Anton James of JMD Design is an accomplished and highly regarded landscape architect and artist with more than twenty years experience in the profession.

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Andrew Laidlaw: People and plants

Interview: Andrew Laidlaw

20 Jan 2015

Andrew Laidlaw is a significant figure and has worked on numerous public gardens throughout Victoria and internationally.

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Landscape Architect Perry Lethlean of Taylor Cullity Lethlean.

Stories of place: Perry Lethlean

11 Nov 2014, Catherin Bull

Perry Lethlean of Taylor Cullity Lethlean talks to Catherin Bull about narrative, place and the New Civic in contemporary public gardens.

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Ask the silly questions: CODA Studio's Emma Williamson

Ask the silly questions: Emma Williamson

30 Oct 2014, Sam Spurr

Emma Williamson of CODA Studio on generosity, humility and architecture’s hidden heroes.

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46 Brooklands Gardens in Jaywick, England (2009).

‘Graveyards are the most legitimate form of public art’: Nathan Coley & Callum Morton in conversation

21 Oct 2014, Callum Morton

Callum Morton speaks to British artist Nathan Coley about his practice.

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Andrew Burns on culture as a landscape of ideas

Andrew Burns on culture as a landscape of ideas

16 Oct 2014, Sam Spurr

Andrew Burns talks to Sam Spurr about architecture’s role in forming identity.

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Kate Cullity: Maker's mark

Kate Cullity: Maker’s mark

25 Aug 2014

Interview with Kate Cullity – landscape architect, environmental artist, head of TCL’s Adelaide office.

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Jane Irwin: Hands on

Jane Irwin: Hands on

29 Jul 2014

Landscape architect Jane Irwin talks about her practice and process.

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Fumihiko Maki: Designing from the inside out

Fumihiko Maki: Designing from the inside out

15 Apr 2014, Philip Drew

Pritzker Prize Laureate Fumihiko Maki talks with Philip Drew.

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Rem Koolhaas: National identity in architecture

Rem Koolhaas

25 Mar 2014, Andrew Mackenzie

Curator of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale tells Andrew Mackenzie his vision.

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Games Night

Games Night

18 Feb 2014, Amy Grey

A fun-filled urban tactic brings Brisbanites back into King George Square.

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Lisa Diedrich: European landscape architecture

Lisa Diedrich: European landscape architecture

9 Jan 2014, Ricky Ray Ricardo

Professor Lisa Diedrich speaks with Ricky Ricardo in Melbourne.

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In conversation: Peter Wilson and Gerard Reinmuth

Peter Wilson and Gerard Reinmuth

18 Dec 2013, Gerard Reinmuth

Architect Gerard Reinmuth talks with 2013 Gold Medallist Peter Wilson.

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COBE

COBE

17 Dec 2013, Eoghan Lewis

Eoghan Lewis talks with Dan Stubbergaard of Denmark’s COBE Architects at the Sydney Opera House.

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Johannes Molander Pedersen (left) and Morten Rask Gregersen (right), NORD Architects.

Nord Architects Copenhagen: “Content-driven”

6 Dec 2013, Eoghan Lewis

Morten Gregersen and Johannes Pedersen of Nord Architects Copenhagen talk to Eoghan Lewis in Sydney.

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The campus and Reconciliation Place. Questacon is on the right and the NGA view corridor is revealed through the removal of Enid Lyons St.

Humanities and Science Campus Place: ‘People friendly’

19 Nov 2013, Magdalene Keaney

Michael Spackman and Andrew Nimmo on making this civilizing public space.

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The award-winning Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki.

Richard Francis-Jones: Gallery of ideas

19 Nov 2013

On material meaning, gallery anxiety and the 2013 World Building of the Year.

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Virginia San Fratello: Hacking culture

Virginia San Fratello: Hacking culture

7 Nov 2013, Chris Knapp

Chris Knapp speaks to Virginia San Fratello of Rael San Fratello.

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Carey Lyon, Lyons.

Carey Lyon: “Everything is a public building”

4 Nov 2013, Emma Williamson, Kieran Wong

Emma Williamson and Kieran Wong (CODA Studio) talk with Carey Lyon.

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Christof Mayer, raumlaborberlin.

Christof Mayer: Public interventions

31 Oct 2013, Joni Taylor

Christof Mayer of Berlin’s Raumlabor collective Sydney exhibition.

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Bruce and Stuart Mackenzie

Bruce and Stuart Mackenzie

8 Oct 2013, Ella Doney

Legendary landscape architect Bruce Mackenzie and his son Stuart discuss city-making.

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