Architecture Archive

Rory Gardiner is an Irish-Australian photographer working primarily in Switzerland, Mexico, and Australia. He studied photography at RMIT in Melbourne, before building his practice in London. He has emerged as one of the most highly regarded architectural photographers working today. In this interview he describes his path into photography, the evolution of his practice, and where he thinks his is...

In this episode we speak with Matt Grudnoff, a senior economist at The Australia Institute in Canberra. He explains how today's high house prices are not a physical design problem that can be solved by architects, but a problem of wealth concentration caused by tax law. Our discussion unpacks this, and how wealth concentration has affected architecture and urbanism in Australia. We talk about the...

Sean Tran is the founder of his eponymous design studio in Sydney. He is a former architect who over a decade migrated away from buildings toward designing and making garments. The studio has become successful, with its third showing in Paris and distribution of its 11 collections internationally. All items are painstakingly handmade by a small team in the Sydney studio. The evidence of Sean’s arc...