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Meet Barbara Bestor

“We have developed all sorts of strategies and techniques for creating atmosphere, even when the spaces we make can’t be quite as complex as we would like as 3-D built or material entities".

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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.”

Architecture

“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.

Architecture

“I have very hungry eyes.”

“I have very hungry eyes.”

“I love what I do.  I’ve loved it from my very first project".

Architecture

“Beginnings are awesome.”

“Beginnings are awesome.”

Embracing the disciplines of both traditional architecture and new technologies.

Architecture

“Every building is an anticipation of the future.”

“Nowadays, architects plan the life-cycle of a building over a period of years, or even decades,” says forward-thinking architect and entrepreneur, Marvin Bratke.

Architecture

“The challenge is to create an experience that is as immersive as possible.”

“The challenge is to create an experience that is as immersive as possible.”

Architecture

“If you don’t like what we’re doing now, give it 6 weeks.”

Such is the incredible speed of evolution in the mass timber construction industry, says XLam’s Head of Pre-Construction Services, John Eastwood.

Design

Meet Chahid Kairouz

“What people say they want might not be what they really mean,” says Chahid Kairouz, Architect and Managing Director of Melbourne’s C. Kairouz Architects.

Architecture

“I have a very strong attraction to the beauty of the grotesque.”

Thomas has always been attracted to “everything that resembles living creatures or what is considered oddity.

Architecture

Meet Matias del Campo

“I pick up old obsessions of architecture and try to read them through the lens of the new technologies we have today".

Architecture

“How you experience the sky relies precisely on what time you show up.”

“It began as an effort to capture the way light affects space; to try and keep it or hold it still before it vanished.”

Architecture

“To contaminate and to be contaminated are the common threads.”

“To put it in musical terms, my approach is more like a music producer than a sound engineer.  The main goal is a great jam session with the people I work with: design teams, artists, architects and other creatives.”

Architecture