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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.

“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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“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.

“I find it really exciting to find solutions within what’s already on the table.”

Structural engineer, str.ucture Founder and Kassel University Professor, Julian Lienhard, is creating lightweight structures with an innovative approach.

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“I try to get better every day, even if it’s only by 1%.”

“Over time, those incremental improvements can add up to big things,” says Leigh Rust, Co-Founder and Director of Sydney’s Safetyline Jalousie.

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“I like to run fast and to win.”

“Competition is very in sync with my character,” says Senior Architect Designer at Zaha Hadid Architects, Mariana Cabugueira Custodio dos Santos.

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"Exploring collaborative objects and open architecture"

“At some point, my curiosity took over.” “My research is in exploring collaborative objects and open architecture; enabling a human-centric and computationally informed architecture".

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“The Code should be a launching platform, not a target.”

“We’re only just starting to look at the bigger picture of our buildings regarding their impacts on the health of Kiwis and our environment.”

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“Future architects will become the curators of robots.”

“And the robot arm will become the extension of the architect’s arm, metaphorically,” says Amsterdam-based architect and 3D print designer, Aga Blonska.

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