Research the Site Before You Buy It
The perfect site is often made rather than found. That begins with knowing what the land will allow, and what it will ask you to reconsider.
Brief the Need, Not the Plan
The most useful thing you can give an architect is a clear sense of what matters to you.
Working with Existing Architecture: Paris and the Pyramid
The separation between old and new can be precise, even deliberate, so long as the relationship is understood.
The Analogue
Perhaps the most technologically successful room is therefore the one in which we are least aware of technology.
Not Modern, Ancient
Architecture is one of the few disciplines through which a culture reveals what it values before it has found the language to explain it.
Travel as Architectural Education
I was recently interviewed for an article in The Age about travel, design inspiration and the ways our experience of place shapes how we think about home.
Letting the House Speak
The best renovations do not begin with a new look. They begin with listening and observing.
Choosing the Right Architect
A guide for clients building or renovating in Melbourne and Victoria.
The Thick Wall
We sometimes think of a room, or even a house, as something carved from a wall.
Warm Minimalism is not Absence
People often use “warm minimalism” when they are caught between two instincts.
Atmosphere as the Vessel for Life
Architecture is often discussed in terms of image, but lived experience is shaped by quieter qualities.
On Openings
Architecture reveals itself most clearly at the moment it allows something to pass through it. Light, air, view, a body, time.
The Architecture of Temporariness
I was listening to a podcast today. One word in this unrelated conversation caught me: temporariness.
Still Point
Last month, Hannah Abbott from Otomys invited me to join a panel discussion with Helen Redmond as part of Still Point.
A Season Begins Anew at MPavilion
A new season of MPavilion has opened, the third to be held within Tadao Ando’s quiet and exacting contribution to Melbourne.