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Our conversationalists for this episode are Perth architects Tanya Jones and Deborah Binet . Tanya is a director of Gresley Abas and Deborah is associate director at Cameron Chisholm Nicol.   Tanya and Deborah offer open accounts of their lives working in architecture. The conversation offers advice to younger women and suggests candid strategies on how to check out when away from work. They empha...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Caroline Stalker and Genevieve Quinn . At the time of the session, Caroline was a Principal and Design Director Architecture and Urbanism, Australasia, at Arup. She is now a Principal at Hassell. Genevieve is a graduate at Deicke Richards and is active with the Gabba Community Vision team.   The conversation explores advocacy and activism from different...

Our conversationalists for this session are Alysia Bennett and Bek Verrier . At the time of the conversation Alysia, who grew up in Tasmania, was at Monash University, and an active participant in Parlour’s WikiD initiative to write women into Wikipedia.  She is now back in Tasmania and is senior policy officer in the Tasmanian Housing Strategy team at Homes Tasmania.  Bek is an associate at Hobar...

Our conversationalists for this session are Hélène Frichot and Charity Edwards . At the time of recording, Hélène had just returned from Stockholm to join the University of Melbourne, while Charity was at the Monash School of Architecture and Design.   Charity and Hélène’s intense and thoughtful conversations explores institutions, action and activism. They discuss feminist intersectional practice...

Our conversationalists for this episode are architects Sophie Dyring and Miriam Wallace. Sophie is director of Schored Projects and Miriam is a senior associate at Sue Dugdale and Associates.  They came together from Melbourne and Alice Springs via Zoom for a discussion about the varied work they are undertaking within marginalised communities. From the challenges of getting the government to meet...

Our conversationalists are Kali Marnane and Loata Ho. Kali is an architect and urban designer and, at the time of this session, a doctoral candidate at the University of Queensland. She has since obtained her PhD. Loata is an architect and researcher, and is also undertaking a PhD. In this fascinating discussion, Kali Marnane and Loata Ho discuss their experiences of working with communities of wo...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Emma Williamson and Kerry Reed . Emma is CEO of The Fulcrum Agency in Perth and Kerry is involved in the Adelaide Sustainable Building Network and democracyco.  They talk about the importance of stakeholder and community engagement, and the need to take time to do this well. Emma reflects on working with Indigenous communities on housing projects, where...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Gill Hicks and Trish Hansen. Gill is Founding Director of M.A.D Minds and Trish is the Founding Principal of Urban Mind Studio. This moving conversation explores how Gill and Trish each approached life after facing death – one through the experience of the London bombings, the other via a breast cancer diagnosis. These experiences changed how they chose...

Our conversationalists for this cross-country episode are architects Ellen Buttrose and Sarah Aldridge. Sarah is a director of Space Studio in Byron Bay, while Ellen zoomed in from POD in Cairns.   This grounding conversation details the benefits and occasional challenges of working in regional practice. Sarah and Ellen discuss the constant influence of Indigenous and migrant histories, and of cli...

Our conversationalists are Christie Bailey and Natasha Ugrinic. Christie is a Director at Brown Falconer and Natasha at the time was the Business Development Manager at Brickworks. Remarkably, Natasha stepped up as a conversation partner at the very last minute when the scheduled speaker had to pull out! The result is a light hearted (and at times hilarious) reflection on their career progression...

Our conversationalists for this episode are scholar and theorist Karen Burns (University of Melbourne) and, visiting from London, Jos Boys – whose long and wide ranging career includes working as researcher, consultant, educator, photographer, as well as co-founding the Matrix feminist architecture and research collective in the 80s.    Karen and Jos discuss their shared feminism and decades of wo...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Tasmanian architects Cath Hall and Hannah Webber .  Cath is a founding director of 1+2 Architecture, while Hannah was working at Circa Morris Nunn Architects at the time of the conversation. Their lively discussion traverses many topics, including the historical gender inequality within the Tasmanian architectural community, being the only woman in the r...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Alex Lawlor and Iva Foschia. Iva is the founder and lead architect at IF Architecture. At the time of the recording, Alex was Executive Director of Property and Sustainability at the University of Melbourne.  She is now National Leader Urban Futures & Resilience at Architectus. This fantastic chat begins with Iva and Alex talking about their friendsh...

Our conversationalists for this session are Adelaide architects Felicity Sando and Rua Hashlamoun . Felicity is a co-founder of Mulloway Studio, and at the time of this conversation Rua was an associate at Hames Sharley and also involved in the visual arts. She has since moved to Brown Falconer, also as an associate.   Felicity and Rua discuss their experiences of culture and connection to the lan...

Our conversationalists for this session – the first  Launceston Salon – are Tasmanian architects Sophie Bence and Pippa Jensen . Sophie is one of the founders of Hobart practice Bence Mulcahy and spearheaded the development of The Findlay Project, which brings the women of Tasmanian architecture together. Pippa is an architect at Cumulus Studio in Launceston.  Together, they discuss experiences of...

Our conversationalists for this episode on architecture at the big end of town are Leone Lorrimer and Ninotschka Titchkosky. Ninotschka is co-CEO of BVN Architecture. At the time of the recording, Leone was a strategic consultant following a long career with leadership roles in large practices. Subsequently, she has returned to big practice and is now National Practice Leader at GHDWoodhead.    Th...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Sarah Lynn Rees and Alison Cleary , both Parlour directors and wearers of many hats. Sarah is a Palawa woman, a lecturer at Monash University, a practitioner and Lead Indigenous Advisor at Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and curator of the BLAKitecture series at MPavilion. Alison is a broad-based management consultant, a successful lobbyist, advocate...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Naomi Stead and Angelique Edmonds . This Salon was part of the 2019 Adelaide Festival of Architecture and Design and Naomi and Angelique’s conversation revolved around the festival theme Ideas of Home. At the time of the recording Naomi, who grew up in Adelaide, was Professor of Architecture at Monash University in Melbourne. She has since moved to RMIT....

Our conversationalists for this episode are Judith Abell and Liz Walsh . They share stories of growing up in small rural Tasmanian towns, surrounded by people inventing and making – designing in all but name. Trained in both architecture and fine art, Jude was Public Art Coordinator for Hobart at the time of the recording in 2018. She describes her career so far as like “throwing spaghetti against...

This episode is from the first Salon held in Perth, back in 2017. Our conversationalists are Suzie Hunt and Emma Williamson . Suzie is director of Suzanne Hunt Architects. At the time of the recording, Suzie was WA President of the Australian Institute of Architects, while Emma had recently become director of Cox Architecture. In the years since this session was recorded, Emma has established anot...

Our conversationalists for this episode are Tasmanian architects Emily Taylor (Core Collective) and Yvette Breytenbach (Morrison & Breytenbach Architects). At the time of recording in 2017, Yvette was also the President of the Tasmanian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. Our speakers had only met once before this conversation – in preparation for it – and a new friendship was f...

This episode comes from the very first Parlour Seasonal Salon, which kicked off the entire series back in 2016. Our inaugural conversationalists are well-known, highly regarded architects Kerstin Thompson and Clare Cousins , who each lead their own eponymous Melbourne-based practice (Clare Cousins Architects and Kerstin Thompson Architects). They share stories and advice about setting up and leadi...