Hearing Architecture

In this episode, Daniel Moore speaks with Dave Bickmore and Graham Charbonneau, registered architects and directors of Studio Gram based in South Australia. Dave and Graham are two of Australia's most successful emerging architects with one of the most impressive practice portfolios catching the eye of design experts in Australia and abroad. In 2018, Studio Gram was awarded the prestigious Emergin...

In this episode, Daniel Moore speaks with Dr Waldemar Jenek, who isn't a registered architect but is an architectural academic specialising in advanced architectural technology at the Queensland University of Technology. Dr Waldemar Jenek is an experienced researcher and educator specialising in the intersection of education, technology, and architecture. With a strong focus on computational techn...

In this episode, Daniel Moore is speaking with registered architect and Director of Prevalent Architecture in New South Wales, Ben Berwick. Ben is an accomplished emerging architect who has studied and worked around the world primarily between Australia, the USA and Japan. Ben and I discuss some of his experiences working and studying in Japan, his unique approach to sustainability, how he has beg...

In this episode, Daniel Moore speaks with registered architect, Director of Bijl Architecture and New South Wales Architect Practice Examination Convenor, Melonie Bayl-Smith. In 2018, Melonie won the Australian Institute of Architects Paula Whitman Prize for Gender Equity for being an exemplary leader for the architecture profession in practice, education, research and policy development over a su...

In this episode, Sally Hsu is speaking with Matt Davis who is a registered architect and studio director of Bates Smart in Sydney. Matt has run his own successful practice, Davis and Davis, and has also worked in a strategic advisory capacity with the NSW Government Architect and the NSW State Design Review Panel. Matt and Sally discuss Matt's cyclical career journey in the architecture profession...

In this episode, Daniel Moore speaks with registered architect and Associate at STH, Anna Fox, and Dr Ruby Lipson-Smith who is not a registered architect but a researcher at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, at Western Sydney University, specialising in co-design for healthcare environments and services. Ruby's research challenges how traditional healthcare environments, pr...

In this episode, Daniel Moore is speaking with the registered architect and Founder of Breathe Architecture and Nightingale Housing, Jeremy McLeod. Australia and many other countries around the world have housing affordability crises that need to be addressed. Architects can make a meaningful impact in this space when they create housing that is socially, financially and environmentally sustainabl...

In this episode, Sally Hsu is speaking with Dr Damian Madigan who is a registered architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UniSA among the many hats that he wears. Holding a PhD from Monash University, Damian collaborates with academics, industry, and government to create suburban infill typologies for changing demographics. As an individual and collaborator Damian's housing propositions h...

In this episode, Abigail Lee is speaking with registered architect and Director at Maytree Studios, Rebecca Caldwell. Abigail talks with Rebecca about how she designs the kind of world she wants to live in. Her design philosophy combines ethics, social and environmental responsibility with the forward-thinking sensibilities of contemporary architecture. Rebecca is genuinely invested in her clients...

In this episode, Kimberley Hui is speaking with the registered architect and Director at Architecture Architecture, Nick James. Nick enjoys a hands-on approach, building a strong rapport with clients, consultants and builders alike. Socially inclusive design is a strong driver in Nick's work, always seeking opportunities to engage with the broader community no matter the scale of the project and i...

In this episode, Nicole Eadie is speaking with registered architect and associate at Austin Maynard Architects, Ray Dinh. Austin Maynard Architects won Dezeen's 2022 Architecture Studio of the Year globally with the jury noting that "a lot of interesting residential architecture is coming out of Australia at the moment, and Austin Maynard Architects is a leader in this field. The firm has develope...

In this episode of Hearing Architecture, Daniel Moore interviews Dr Isabella Bower who isn't a registered architect but is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. Isabella's work explores whether we can improve brain functioning and mental health through built environment design. During her PhD, she investigated how modifiable interior design characteristics of buildin...

In this episode, Sally Hsu is speaking with registered architect and regional managing principal at HDR Architects, Cate Cowlishaw. Cate speaks about her work at HDR as a global practice and how she enables the teams in her practice to excel. Cate also talks about how the convergence of health, education, science, research and innovation has culminated in the emergence of innovation precincts that...

In this episode, Daniel Moore speaks with architecture academic and sustainability specialist, Dr Kirsty Mate. While Kirsty is not a registered architect, she has been working within architecture for decades with a specialised lens on sustainability. Kirsty recently completed her PhD at the University of Tasmania titled "The Changing Paradigms of Contemporary Consumerism: Sustainability, adaptatio...

In this episode, Daniel Moore talks with registered architect and Director of Interiors at Breathe Architecture, Bettina Robinson. Bettina leads the interior design arm of Breathe and has cultivated a thoughtful approach to spatial organisation and a pioneering attitude towards the utilisation of sustainable materials and design methodologies. We discuss Bettina's process for selecting materials t...

In this episode, you're hearing from registered architect and the 2022 Western Australia Emerging Architect Prize winner Matt Delroy-Carr. Matt is an amazing young architect with a lot going on. He designs sustainable carbon-neutral houses, develops his own projects, has a hand in the building process, and is now selling the plans for some of his projects for anyone to build on their own site. He'...

In this episode, Bridie O'Tool interviews registered architect and the 2022 Queensland Emerging Architect Prize winner Tanya Golitschneko. Tanya works at Hassell in Brisbane and shares how she found her area of specialisation in transport architecture. She is also an advocate for enabling architecture for better accessibility in the built environment through her lived and practice experience. Let'...

In this episode, Daniel Moore interviews Jeremy McLeod a registered architect, founding director of sustainable architecture firm Breathe Architecture and founder of alternative not-for-profit development company Nightingale Housing. Jeremy shares some of the main initiatives that he uses in Breathe and Nightingale projects to have the most impact on climate change. Have your notebooks ready, beca...

In this episode, our host Lily Jiang interviews Kavita Gonsalves, who is not a registered architect but works in practice as the Sustainable Design Lead at Populous and is also a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology. Kavita shares the process she has been going through in her PhD that focuses on social sustainability and the ways place can evoke position experiences. This has b...

In this episode, our host Karen Tuiyott is interviewing architect Lee Yang Yang who is a registered architect and the 2023 WA Emerging Architect Prize winner working at Mode Design in WA. Yang talks about his journey in architecture through education and working in practice after moving to Perth from Malaysia, and the importance of encouragement and recognition of emerging architects in the archit...

In this episode, our host Kimberley Hui is interviewing Jocelyn Chiew who is a registered architect working at the City of Melbourne as the Director of City Design. Kim and Jocelyn discuss intersectionality in architecture. Intersectionality is a way of examining how different forms of oppression overlap and interact to create complex experiences of discrimination. This can be done by understandin...

In this episode, our host Sally Hsu interviews architect HY William Chan who is a registered architect and councillor at the City of Sydney. William discusses his background working as an architect before becoming a councillor and how his architectural knowledge informs his work in the planning, regulatory, and community engagement process. Hearing Architecture is proudly sponsored by Brickworks....

In this episode, our host Sam Bowstead is interviewing architects Craig Hayman & Hannah Charlton from Hayman Charlton Architects. Craig and Hannah discuss designing and building sustainable off-grid ecotourism lodges in wild Africa. They discuss spending a lot of time connecting to a site, sustainable design and building in the bush, and what these projects have taught them for their future projec...

In this episode, our host Olivia McKim interviews architects Ben McPherson and Natalie Di Sisto from DesignInc Adelaide. Ben and Natalie discuss the Wulunda Recreation and Convention Centre in Mount Gambier, South Australia and how DesignInc undertook and delivered a complex project that required in-depth community consultation and specialist consultation coordination on a project that was so impo...

In this episode, our host Aileen Chew is interviewing Sophie Bond from Hassell and Anna Silva from SPH Architecture. Aileen, Sophie and Anna discuss gender equity in architecture, and how these considerations impact work-life balance in the architecture work force, and how this informed the establishment of the EmAGN initiative "Archi Bubs". This has been Hearing Architecture proudly sponsored by...