Nathaniel Corum

Architecture for Humanity

Architect and Head of Education Outreach with Architecture for Humanity, Nathaniel Corum coordinates international studio programs connecting several schools of architecture to humanitarian design challenges. He is also a design architect for projects including tribal elder housing initiatives, ecological education centers and the recent Plastiki Expedition.

After studying product design at Stanford University, Nathaniel trained as an architect at the University of Texas at Austin. A subsequent Fulbright Scholarship allowed him to focus on preservation and urban poverty issues in North Africa. He is also the recipient of a Rose Architectural Fellowship, and author of Building a Straw Bale House (Princeton Architectural Press).

Nathaniel's work has been featured in Architecture, Dwell, Metropolitan Home, Vogue, the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune—and online in publications including National Geographic News and Wired Science. He is currently collaborating with project teams in Mexico, Spain, Japan, New Zealand, Hawaii and the Southwestern United States.

Charles Holland

FAT

Charles Holland is an architect, writer and teacher. He is a director of FAT, the London based architecture practice. FAT's work is characterised by an interest in the politics of taste and space and by a critical re-appraisal of the role of communication in architecture. Established in 1995, the studio's work has evolved from urban-based art projects through the scales of design, interiors, architecture to masterplans. Their award winning work receives international attention and has been exhibited and published extensively. Current and recent projects include the BBC's new production studios in Wales, a public library in London and a mixed-use apartment building in Middlesborough.

Charles is a visiting professor at Yale University in the US, and a design tutor at the University of Creative Arts, Canterbury. He writes about architecture extensively for various magazines and periodicals and blogs at www.fantasticjournal.blogspot.com

Richard Briggs

SJB Architects

Richard Briggs is an English architect currently working with SJB Architects Sydney. Mixing high end residential design with projects that unite social, architectural, economic and urban agendas, SJB are one of this year’s sponsors.

In 2010 Richard spent 10 months working as a field volunteer in the Solomon Islands with Emergency Architects Australia. His work at Ngari Community High School, was a part of a larger program to rehabilitate over 100 schools, following a destructive earthquake and tsunami in 2007.

After graduating from the Manchester School of Architecture in 1999, Richard worked with SOM in London before working in Australia for the last 7 years. More recently, Richard’s travels to countries such as the interiors of Bolivia and Nepal have generated a strong interest in social and community based projects.

The main ethos of EAA’s work in the Solomon’s Islands is to combine local materials with disaster resistant design principles, and seeks to ensure a process of capacity building and empowering communities. The project at Ngari, which is part of an overall masterplan for the school, was a winner in the World Architecture Community Awards 2011 and features in the book Beyond Shelter: Architecture for Crisis for Thames and Hudson.

lara calder

calder flower architects

Lara is a director of Calder Flower Architects in Sydney, following the recent merger of Lara Calder Architects with Flower and Samios Architects.

Lara is a design director of a practice specialising in the design and delivery of residential aged care accommodation. She is designing buildings for older people and places for the care of the elderly and frail, and is motivated to deliver and positively influence aged care architecture for the future.

Her experimental work with competitions has received wide plaudits in the world of architectural press. Awards for design competitions include the 'Eco House of the future' 2009, a rural pediatric and maternity hospital in Rwanda and the "Pre-fab parasite".

Lara is an accredited Green star professional and deals with the present challenges of commercial practice, seeking opportunities for innovation and creativity to achieve sustainable design in the built environment.

dr. esther charlesworth

architects without frontiers

Dr Esther Charlesworth is the founding Director of Architects without Frontiers (Australia), a design non-for-profit organization who have undertaken over 20 projects in 12 countries for communities affected by disaster and social marginalisation. She is currently an ARC Future Fellow in Architecture at RMIT University, Melbourne. Esther has lectured in architecture at QUT, Brisbane and the University of Melbourne was Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the American University of Beirut between 2000-2002. Between 1995 and 1999 Esther was Senior Urban Designer with the City of Melbourne. She completed her Masters Design of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University in 1995 and her Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of York (UK) in 2003.

She has published widely on the theme of social justice and architecture including: 'CityEdge: Contemporary Case Studies in Urbanism' (2005), 'Architects Without Frontiers, War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility' (2006), 'Divided Cities' (2009) and 'The EcoEdge' (2011).

Stuart Harrison

Harrison and White

Stuart Harrison is a practicing architect, lecturer, broadcaster and architectural advocate. He is director of the award-winning firm Harrison and White Architects (HAW), based in Brunswick, Melbourne. He teaches in architecture at RMIT, teaching in design, architectural history and technology. He founded and co-hosts 'The Architects' on Melbourne RRR and has interviewed architects and designers from around the world. His book, A Place in the Sun, for Thames & Hudson, was released in 2010 and promotes a range of innovative architectural practices responding to different regional conditions in Australia and New Zealand. He has also written for Architecture Australia, Monument and Lonely Planet, and is a regular correspondent for Architecture Review Australia; and has appears on ABC-TV’s Art Nation.

Benjamin Hewett

Integrated Design Commission SA

Ben Hewett is the South Australian Government Architect, leading the Integrated Design Commission SA. In his role Ben provides strategic advice to government and advocates for the discipline of architecture by working across government and with industry and academia.

Ben has previously worked as an architect in large and small practice as well as government. He is currently Director of Offshore Studio, an architectural design research practice.

Prior to his role as South Australian Government Architect, Ben was a Senior Lecturer with the University of Technology Sydney. At UTS he taught Design Studio, and developed and coordinated the Architectural Practice stream. Ben's research was in contemporary computational processes and their experimental application to tall building typologies.

In Ben’s previous role as Design Director at Crone Partners Architecture Studios he led design teams on a number of large commercial and residential buildings as well as master plans across Australia, Dubai and China.

Ben received Honours in Architecture from the University of New South Wales in 1995. Early in his studies Ben started working as a cadet in the NSW Government Architect’s Office, following on with the office as a Design Architect.

Ben holds high regard for the value of design thinking, especially in the inception and procurement of projects. Ben is a keen advocate for design excellence and promotes collaboration as vital to successful design processes.

Luke Jones

Pod Trading

Luke Jones is an Architect and director of Pod Trading, a new Australian company exploring the boundaries of modular flat pack accommodation.  He is also a director of C4 Architects, a young Adelaide based Architecture practice.

Graduating from Architecture at the University of Adelaide in 1997, Luke formed C4 Architects in 2003 in collaboration with a fellow graduate. The practice has a strong regional focus with projects in all states of Australia ranging from residential to wineries, commercial and large scale sporting facilities.

Luke has been involved in Pod Trading since 2008, when the company was formed out of a desire to create a new standard of modular housing in response to the rapidly changing conditions of our world. With disaster relief and social opportunity at its core, the resulting ‘Pod’ is a unique flat pack accommodation solution which can be erected by an unskilled labor force in a rapid time. In his role as the group architect, Luke has been key in maintaining the company ethos of providing a product which has the affordability and potential for mass production required for most applications, without compromising on high design quality and sustainability. 

Peter Malatt

Six Degrees

Peter Malatt is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He is an architect and founding member of Six Degrees, widely recognised for engaging and rich design in hospitality, tertiary education and civic fields. Six Degrees continues to develop ideas about human needs, high and low design, raw materiality, recycling and brutalism within a collective framework. Peter is an enthusiastic contributor to education, and has taught at the University of Melbourne and guested at Deakin University and University of Tasmania from 2000. He is also a regular guest at AIA continuing education lectures. Peter has served on a number of Victorian AIA awards juries and in 2009 served as a National AIA awards jury member.

Andrew Maynard

Andrew Maynard Architects

Andrew Maynard Architects (AMA) was established in 2002 after Andrew won the Asia Pacific Design Award's grand prize for his mobile work station, THE DESIGN POD. AMA was established to strike a balance between built projects and bold, polemical design studies. The resulting highly crafted built work and socio-political concepts have garnered global recognition.

The Age newspaper says of Andrew: "His concepts include a man-eating robot, a bicycle made of plywood and "Poop House" – a structure made from human excrement. Images of the archetypal mad scientist spring to mind, but architect Andrew Maynard, like his designs, comes across as measured and eloquent."

Andrew has been published in journals such as the Architectural Record, Architectural Review [London], A+T [Spain], Wallpaper [London] and Pol Oxygen; as well as a host of local and online publications. His work has been exhibited worldwide from New York, Budapest and Osaka to Milan, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

www.maynardarchitects.com

paul pholeros

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While studying architecture Paul, with 2 other students, drove a 1947 double decker bus around Australia as a 4th year alternative to working in an architect's office. It changed his perspective on Australia and architecture. He has run a small private practice since 1984 working on urban, rural, remote and international projects.

As a director of Healthabitat for over 25 years, he has worked to improve the living environment and health of Indigenous people. In the last 11 years alone, Housing for Health projects have improved the living conditions of over 40,000 Australian Indigenous people.

He has received the Institute's Presidents award, Jury Prize and the 2011 Leadership in Sustainability Prize. He has also received the International Union of Architects (UIA) Vassilis Sgoutas Prize, for the alleviation of poverty, and the Public Health Association of Australia's, Impact Award recognise that architecture can contribute to fundamental improvements in people's lives. Paul received an Order of Australia in 2007 for services to architecture, Indigenous housing and health.

brian porter

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Brian is a member of the Oneida Nation from the First Nations community of Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario Canada. He set up his practice in 1992 and has been a First Nations business leader since then, designing and overseeing the construction of projects for First Nation communities across Ontario, Canada and the United States. He has not only demonstrated success in designing culturally appropriate projects for these communities, but has also worked to maximize the participation of First Nations skills and trades on those projects. Brian's firm Two Row Architect, promotes an architectural approach that realizes the meshing of local traditional symbols (Native arts/crafts/design) into current building technology while actively promoting the creative and environmentally conscious use of natural building materials and sustainable practices.

michael rayner

cox rayner architects

Michael Rayner is the Principal of Cox Rayner Architects which has undertaken an extensive array of projects throughout Queensland and in Singapore. The most recent there is the Helix Pedestrian Bridge which received the World Architecture Festival Award for Transport Architecture in Barcelona in 2010. Cox Rayner's national Institute awarded projects include Thuringowa Riverway in Townsville, James Street Market and the Goodwill Bridge in Brisbane. Other noted projects are the Kurilpa Bridge, Ipswich Justice Precinct and 'organic' One One One Eagle Street office tower being constructed in The Brisbane CBD. Michael is a member of the Queensland Premier's Smart State Council, Queensland's Board of Urban Places, the Queensland Design Council, and is an adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland.

gerard reinmuth

terroir

Gerard Reinmuth is a Director of TERROIR, the practice he founded with Richard Blythe and Scott Balmforth in 1999. The practice emerged from a series of conversations between the Founding Directors in regard to the potential for architecture to open up questions of cultural consequence. The search to address these questions has led to his appointment as Professor in Practice at the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney and Guest Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, where he has established the inaugural “international studio” as part of the Masters’ program.

TERROIR’s work of the practice encompasses projects, research and regular contributions to the culture of architecture and its practice and roles in teaching. For this reason the practice has been called on to serve the profession in Australia in many forms, including the Creative Directorship of the 2009 National Architecture Conference (Parallax) and Gerard’s role as juror for the 2007 National Architecture Awards. TERROIR have been featured in a number of international and national exhibitions and publications including AV Monographs “20 international emerging architects”, the Phaidon 10x10/3 volume and the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture. A monograph on the practice, titled TERROIR: Cosmopolitan Ground was published in 2007.

Gerard’s current role is split between his Directorship of TERROIR’s Copenhagen office and his Professorial roles. This crossover of practice and research is centred on questions around the agency of the architect in making our cities and the future of the profession in a globalised interconnected world marked by ever increasing flows of capital and expertise.

Melonie Bayl-Smith

LiquidARCHITECTURE

Melonie Bayl-Smith is the Sydney director of liquidARCHITECTURE. Alongside the practice’s well-published design output, over the past decade Melonie has become broadly invested across the profession as an educator, critic, mentor, examiner and researcher.

Both architectural education and practice hold particular interest, and Melonie will be presenting her current thinking in both open lectures and in her teaching at UTS in the Masters program over the next few months.

For her research project “BuildAbility: the future of Construction education”, Melonie was awarded the prestigious Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship (2009) and the NAWIC International Women’s Day Scholarship (2010). This project involved the review and analysis of the teaching and integration of construction, structures and fabrication in architecture schools across Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, North America and the UK. Now complete, the final research report has been well received and parts of the research are currently being reviewed for publication.

Patrick Stewart

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Patrick is a citizen of the Nisga'a Nation in northwestern B.C. from the community of Gingolx, a member of the Killerwhale House of Daxaan. He is a Past-President of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC) and current elected Chair of the Aboriginal Homelessness Steering Committee (AHSC) for Greater Vancouver. Patrick is also a Board Member of the National Aboriginal Housing Association (NAHA) and a Director of, Nass Valley Gateway (NVG), a Nisga'a-owned publicly-traded Natural Resource Exploration Company. Patrick has been a jury member for numerous professional awards and has written about his work in a variety of publications.

Rewi Thompson

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Rewi Thompson, is a distinguished Maori architect and Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Auckland. Rewi (of Ngãti Porou and Ngãti Raukawa descent) has received 20 architecture awards in New Zealand and been involved in a number of prominent Mãori and bi-cultural architectural projects. As well as teaching architecture at the School, he is responsible for developing an appropriate cultural focus, with special concern for Mäori students. Rewi has also adjudicated architecture awards for many years, including the New Zealand Institute of Architects Students Awards and the Auckland Architectural Association Awards.

Sponsored by the Queensland University of Technology

john wardle

john wardle architects

John Wardle established the architectural practice John Wardle Architects in Melbourne in 1986. He has led the growth of the practice from working on small domestic dwellings to university buildings, museums and large commercial offices.

John has an international reputation as a design architect and has developed a design process that builds upon ideas that evolve from a site's topography, landscape, history and context and a client's particular aspirations and values. In 2006 and 2002, JWA was awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Sir Zelman Cowen Award for the most outstanding work of public architecture in Australia.

The work of JWA is published widely in Australian and international journals and has been celebrated in a book Volume – John Wardle Architects published by Thames and Hudson, London in 2008.

www.johnwardlearchitects.com