John Wardle is Partner at the award-winning John Wardle Architects, a practice internationally renowned for making extraordinary buildings and places that matter. As a Partner at a firm of 100 people, John says he is as much a navigator as an architect. He enjoys drawing the many threads together to create something far greater than ever first imagined.

"An idea in its infancy is a fragile thing. It can be killed off with logic almost immediately. It must be allowed to be given oxygen. History reminds us of how influential original thinking can be, and how lives are improved by it. To be truly creative you need to push against the norm - and certain political and commercial pressures."

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Links & Show Notes:

• John Wardle Architects
• Melbourne Design Week
• Heide Museum of Modern Art
• Heide II
• Article: Impeccably designed and crafted, 'Relatively Useful' acknowledges Australia's design greats
• Video: Relatively Useful
• Brunelleschi's Dome of Florence Cathedral
• Book: Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
• Book: Creativity - A Short and Cheerful Guide by John Cleese
• Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
• UTAS Library and Student Experience Building
• Article: Timeless Australian Timber in Construction - University of Tasmania's West Park Campus by John Wardle Architects
• Article: John Wardle Architects Designs Pair of Industrial Buildings for University of Tasmania
• Hydrowood
• Cusp Building Solutions
• Article: Going green with stone and wood: Limestone House by John Wardle Architects
• Article: The sentinel on the edge of a cliff: Captain Kelly's Cottage
• Hosted by Claire Bennett

Episode Sponsors:

• Tasmanian Timber
• Hydrowood