Hearing Architecture

Our guests in this episode are Jessie Fowler and Tara Ward from Fowler and Ward based in Melbourne. Fowler and Ward is an exceptional emerging practice who cut their teeth working together at Clare Cousins Architects. Before they started their own practice they had a hunger to learn what it really takes to make an architectural project happen. In this episode we hear about Jessie and Tara's experience working with trades, appreciating what can fit in a small space, and how the experience on their own projects has benefitted their clients when weighing up the value of different design options.

Our guest in this episode is Jill Garner who is at the time of recording the Victorian Government Architect. Jill was also a founder of the architecture firm Garner Davis Architects who design private homes as well as large scale public projects. Jill has a unique perspective on architecture competitions having taken part in them through her own practice and also through running large scale architectural competitions for the Victorian State government. In this interview, Jill shares how the government uses architecture competitions, design champions in government, how architecture practices take on major competitions, the culture of competitions in Australia and abroad, and what Jill went through when she ran the Future Homes Competition. Our interviewer in this episode is Cassia Ward who is an EmAGN committee member based in Victoria.

Our guest in this episode is Scott Balmforth from Terroir who have offices in New South Wales, Tasmania, and Copenhagen in Denmark. Scott shares with us how Terroir took on Competitions at the beginning of their practice's life to explore design ideas that built their portfolio on an international stage. He also shares stories about the intricacies embedded in competitions and how they're run. Our host in this episode is Abby Hibberd who is an EmAGN committee member based in Tasmania.

Our guests in this episode are Aaron Peters from the Queensland based firm Vokes and Peters, and Andrew Scott from the New South Wales based firm Panovscott. Aaron and Andrew worked together on a submission for the 2017 National Gallery of Victoria's annual architecture commission. They share with us the benefits of collaboration, working on a 2 stage competition, and how working on competitions can feed other work even when a practice doesn't win. The interview is taken care of by Sam McQueeney who is an EmAGN committee member based in Queensland who also works at Vokes and Peters.

In this episode, we're catching up with Matthias Hollenstein of Studio Hollenstein based in Sydney. His practice essentially began off the back of winning the architecture competition for Green Square in Sydney. The brief was to design a public square with extensive amenities to serve an area of inner-city Sydney that is slowly being developed into a modern high density precinct. The stakes for the competition were high but the outcomes have pushed the bar higher for great urban design and architecture.

This episode of Hearing Architecture is part of our continued collaboration with the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival otherwise known as APAF. The theme of the festival this year is "co-operate, co-design, and co-exist". In this episode, we're focusing on the word "co-exist" and how architects are bringing their clients and communities into the design process with them. Our guest in this episode is Brinda Somaya of SNK Architects in India who is a leader in an emerging form of participatory design that breaks down parts of the traditional hierarchy that separates architects from the end-users.

This episode of Hearing Architecture is part of our continued collaboration with the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival otherwise known as APAF. The theme of the festival this year is "co-operate, co-design, and co-exist". In this episode, we're focusing on the word "co-design" and some of the spaces being produced when architects collaborate with creatives from various backgrounds to revitalise public space. Our guest in this episode is Millie Cattlin of "The Projects" based in Melbourne, a creative architecture practise that facilitates the work of creative professionals in the public realm. They have achieved this by making some of the most successful creative spaces in Melbourne including "Testing Grounds", "Site Works" and "The Quarry".

In this mini-episode, you're going to be hearing from Stephen Geason director of the Hobart-based firm, Cykel Architecture. Stephen has started to specialise in aged care living for people with dementia and is the fireside architect, or man-on-the-ground, for Tasmanian projects that need to achieve a high level of performance.