Interview with Peter Ho, PHOOEY Architects

PHOOEY Architects are a young, enthusiastic and progressive design practice from Melbourne, Australia.
Their portfolio extends from large scale master planning to small scale furniture design. They explore architecture which advocates for environmental, social and cultural awareness and consideration. PHOOEY Architects genuinely and actively explore the use of recycled materials while minimising consumption waste.
Directed [...]

Reclaiming the Streets – Adventures of Urban Disruption

Not long after writing the architecture and anarchy essay, I decided to put some small scale performances into action on the unsuspecting streets of Sydney! Inspired by the ethics of punk; the performances are cheap, replicable by anyone, and seek to create an instant moment of disruption accessible to all. They do not seek to [...]

Skateboarding and the City – Interview with Philip Nobel

In preparation and to form part of my research agenda for the skateboarding and architecture essay I asked architecture writer, critic, and publicist Ian Volner to Interview Philip Nobel. Philip is an architecture writer and fixture in New York design circles. About a year ago Philip gave up New York for skateboarding. I wanted to [...]

Women In Architecture: By Women In Architecture

Over the last couple of months Tom Mallory co-founder of OpenBuildings.com and an author at the Huffington Post has been interviewing women to talk about their underrepresentation in the industry. I was lucky enough to share my opinion on the topic. The full interview can be found here and includes projects and opinions from prominent [...]

10 Inspiring Architecture TED Talks

TED Talks on Architecture
Following on from my previous post, highlighting the Speech to Harvard Architecture Graduates by TED’s curator Chris Anderson I thought it would be appropriate to highlight some of the most popular TED Talks on Architecture,
Here were some of Chris Anderson’s favouirte TED Talks on Architecture:

Thomas Heatherwick – Building the Seed Cathedral [...]

Speech to Harvard Architecture Graduates by TED’s curator Chris Anderson

Having recently graduated, I found Chris Anderson’s speech to Harvard Architecture Graduates incredibly valuable. Anderson, is a former  magazine publisher and journalist from England. He founded the TED (Technology – Entertainment – Design) conferences in 2001 through a nonprofit foundation. TED aims to help solve global problems through media, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Anderson discussed [...]

Skateboarding and Architecture

Architecture is fundamentally limited to the conception of the building-as-object: a theoretical and historical fixation that erases the social and political experiences of the city. The following was written through the theories of Ian Borden, author of Skateboarding, Space and the city: Architecture and the Body.
Skateboarding as a process for rethinking architectures manifold possibilities:
My interest [...]

Architecture and Anarchy

Unfortunately it has been a while since I posted on Archi-Ninja. Many exciting things have been happening in last couple of months. I have graduated from my Masters of Architecture degree at UTS. I have travelled Europe and America and spent time visiting amazing offices around the world from BIG (Copenhagen) to Frank Gehry (Los [...]

Interview with Belinda Tato, Ecosistema Urbano

ecosistema urbano focuses on the research and ecological design of new architecture projects, utilising their team of architects and engineers to create projects that are sustainable and innovative.
Belinda Tato and her team have received over 15 awards for their projects since 2000 in both national and international design competitions including the European Acknowledgement Award from the Holcim [...]

Food For Thought: Performance as Criticism

I recently wrote an article for Architecture Australia on Food For Thought – an Australian spatial and performative experiment, where soup is served to individuals in exchange for ideas. Here is my article:
Performance as Criticism. Linda Bennett becomes a guest soup server for Food for Thought
On 23 April I dress from shoulder to toe in [...]