Talking Architecture & Design

As an architect Jo Gillies has been a mainstay at Collaroy for over 20 years, but in 2013 the business further expanded in vision, director and staff, to be re-born as Archisoul Architects in Manly. She speaks with Talking Architecture and Design about how design, both in its raw as well as in its finished forms has the power to both transform and redeem. She is a survivor of childhood abuse and shares her journey and her thoughts on life, form, nature, redemption, gender-based desig...

21 Aug 201936min

Lisa Sorrentino is a highly skilled residential development executive with over 20 years of end to end development experience in urban renewal, mixed use, community housing, retirement living, and build to rent sectors within Australia and the United States.She talks about the differences between affordable and social housing and delves into the challenges of her role and the place of affordable housing has in the rental housing mix.

2 Aug 201932min

Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter president Kathlyn Loseby joins former NSW government architect Peter Poulet to speak with Talking Architecture & Design about design, heritage, technology and the gender imbalance in the built environment.

12 Juli 201938min

Adam Hetherington from BVN is Australia’s foremost expert on the dRofus software platform, a unique planning, data management and BIM collaboration tool that provides workflow support and access to building information throughout the building lifecycle. Unlike any other planning tool in the market, dRofus was developed directly on behalf of public building owners. Capturing client requirements (EIR), validating design solutions (BIM) against client requirements, management of public standards...

10 Juli 201935min

GWA Technical Manager Russell Harris joins Azuma's Craig Brennan and Cecilia Wells, Senior Associate at architectural firm Jackson Teece to give their in-depth and interesting views on why windows and window design is so crucial to any home, not just for the aesthetics and moisture control, but also for the energy savings and overall sustainability rating. This podcast is crucial for anyone building or thinking of building a house or commercial structure where their facade integrity and carb...

25 Juni 201955min

A titan of Australia's built industry, Tone Wheeler talks Jane Jacobs, New York, urbanism, transport, safety, books women in the design field, ANU and even everything that is wrong with Canberra.

18 Juni 20191h 2min

Koos de Keijzer, a founding partner and principal of DKO Architecture has built a highly regarded role as an urban designer and architect, with a particular expertise in residential developments. As principal of DKO, Koos de Keijzer is actively involved in all projects throughout Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. His passion and commitment to architectural integrity combines to deliver a strong emphasis on contemporary sustainable communities and is being adopted as benc...

28 Maj 201927min

We do need to have better infrastructure. Here the problem is we couldn't really refurbish and build upon what we had, we had to put more in. Look at Asia –what Asia did was not build infrastructure based on how much they were going to recoup. In Singapore, you can travel into the CBD before 7.15 or 7.45 constantly. They are not recouping capital expenditure through tickets; it's about moving people around because of the cost on business and the costs on the wider community by not getti...

20 Mars 201945min