Rachel Neeson studied architecture at the University of Sydney, graduating with the University Medal in 1993, and completed a Masters of Architecture in Barcelona. She formed Neeson Murcutt Architects with her late partner Nicholas Murcutt in 2004. Based in Sydney, the practice deliberately pursues a balance of public projects and residential work, operating in urban, suburban, rural and outback settings across Australia. The work of Neeson Murcutt Architects has been recognised through...

Kerstin Thompson is Principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects, Professor of Design in Architecture at Victoria University Wellington and Adjunct Professor of Architecture at RMIT & Monash Universities. Located in Melbourne, Australia, KTA was started in 1994 and has established itself as a significant and innovative reference point in Australian architecture and urban design. Kerstin is a writer and lecturer with close links with schools of architecture and professional institutes in...

HUANG Wenjing, founding partner of OPEN Architecture. Huang received B. Arch. from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1996, and M. Arch. from Princeton University in 1999. She is a registered architect of New York State and a member of AIA. Prior to OPEN, Huang was a senior designer and associate in New York based firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners Architects (formerly I.M. Pei Architects). OPEN was recognized by many architectural awards for its progressing work, including World Architecture’s...

Professor Adrian Carter has more than 30 year’s experience, as an architect and academic, working in the Nordic countries and more widely internationally. He is recognised as an expert on the work of Sydney Opera House architect, Jørn Utzon; and was the founding director of the Utzon Research Center, established the International Utzon Symposiums and realised the building of the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, designed in collaboration with Jørn Utzon. He was also an advisor and contributor...

Richard Leplastrier is a seminal figure in Australian architecture and architectural education. He eschews publicity and his built works are secret treasures to be discovered only by those privileged enough to be introduced to them. His sensitivity to issues of culture and place and his accumulated wisdom in the design and making of architecture is gently revealed though his tutorial sessions in the design studio. He received national recognition in 1999 through the award of the Gold Medal of...

Thomas Bailey is a founding member and Director of Room11 Architects. Room11 are a brutal, poetic, Occamist practice who’s work seeks to resonate with place. Room11's deftly conceived architecture has received national and international acclaim and has been published through highly acclaimed books, journals and alternative media streams. Bailey studied architecture in Tasmania and Sweden, where he learnt the gentle art of making refined buildings for a cool climate. The GASP! project is...

Winners of many awards, including the Wilkinson and Robin Boyd Residential Housing Awards (twice) … Durbach Block Jaggers have a series of tight, luminescent projects to their name. A small office of eight, they are a practice that tackles residential projects, toilet blocks and major public spaces with equal vigour. Indeed, every horizontal surface of their office in Sydney’s CBD is littered with half-finished, half-painted models; that could be a house on a cliff, an art gallery in Perth,...