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Meet Tom Kundig

“I often work with elemental materials such as steel, concrete, wood and glass in their raw states,” says Tom Kundig, Principal / Owner / Founder of bi-coastal US design firm, Olson Kundig.

“Diversity of thinking creates a richness that is the juice of creativity.”

“Creatives need to solve problems. A client comes to you with a brief which, in the end, is a problem to solve. And it’s only with different perspectives and backgrounds that you can solve complex problems,”

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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.”

Architect Gabriela Carillo of TallerGabrielaCarrilo and Colectivo c733 brings deep introspection and the spirit, politics and culture of Mexico and Mexico City to her work. “I am in love with my work.

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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.”

Born and bred in Palmerston North, Susie Elms has been serving the architecture and design needs of the Manawatu region for the last 35 years.

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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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“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.”

Architecture

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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“I’ve been multi-tasking from a very young age.”

With diverse interests and a passion for knowledge, UK-based Italian architect Margherita Cesca Nelder-Haynes had to learn early on how to squeeze everything in.

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“We’re not only connected by atoms and bricks.”

“There’s this ongoing theoretical dialogue about what architecture is. Architects aren’t only building houses,” says Wendy Fok, New York-based creative technologist, researcher, design manager and Founder of WE-DESIGNS.