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Meet Ramon Weber

“What happens if, as an architect, you’re not only a draftsman, but also the designer of the tools that you design with?”

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AUT + Teulo - A Collaboration

“Given Teulo’s partnership with professional experts and their experience of delivering practical-world-based workshops, this collaboration will most certainly help us shrink that gap.”

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“I’m interested in crafting new design tools that challenge how we design today.”

“What happens if, as an architect, you’re not only a draftsman, but also the designer of the tools that you design with?”

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“I believe that architecture needs to be provocative, but at the same time silent.”

“The most powerful pieces of art create abstraction and a deep inner view.  Good architecture can do that.  Atmosphere has the capacity to send you anywhere.”

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“I was always on the end of a tape measure.”

Mitchell Coll has been Director of Coll Architecture in Christchurch since 2009, but says his roots in the industry go back much further.

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“I went from workmate to leader.”

“What’s quite unique for me is that I started out in the business I’m in now.  When I left school, I started as a junior at Chapple & Campbell and now I’m the owner and Director of what has since become Chapple Architecture.”

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“More and more, I’m going back to the things that really interested me as a teenager.”

“I’m suddenly really into basketball again.  I’m back into photography again,” says Dr Sarb Johal, clinical psychologist, consultant and Managing Director of Equanimity Limited. 

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“Being part of something bigger than yourself is exciting.”

For half a decade, architectural designer Julie-Ann Ross has been working with Architectural Designers New Zealand to shape the collective voice for Aotearoa New Zealand’s architectural industry.

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“I’m always trying to kill 10 birds with one stone.”

Architectural Designer Mike Holmes founded the Lyall Bay studio which bears his name in 2010 and has been working to “create space and forms that are more than the sum of their parts” ever since.  

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Meet Marziah Zad

“Our collective values are substantiated through the places we invest in building and so, by extension, architecture has the power to shape the way society sees itself.”  

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Meet Insol

“To a lot of people, even in the building industry, the word facade just means glass, windows and cladding,” says Insol CEO Greg Simmons.  “But we don’t do windows, we don’t do cladding, we don’t do weatherproofing.

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“We still go camping at Christmas together.”

Joseph Long and David Maurice have been designing for the Hibiscus Coast and the wider Rodney area with their firm LTD Architectural Design Studio for more than a decade.

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