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Talking Architecture & Design

English, Arts, 166 seasons, 224 episodes, 5 days, 11 hours, 46 minutes
About
Now celebrating its second year, Talking Architecture & Design is Australia’s first B2B architecture podcast that regularly talks about a range of issues that affect Australia’s architects, building designers and built environment professionals. Run by Australia’s most popular architecture magazine, Architecture & Design, the Talking Architecture & Design podcast gives a regular bite-sized dose of what is important and sometimes what is just plain old interesting to anyone and everyone in the business of building design.
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Episode 184: Dean Landy on the economic and spiritual value of humanitarian architecture

From building Lego cities on a pool table to building homes and schools in Africa, it’s been an adventurous ride for this Australian architect who wears multiple hats – urban designer, social entrepreneur, philanthropist, community advocate, humanitarian, and author.Educated at Deakin University and later at the University of Nottingham, Landy has always been one to progress from challenge to challenge. The tertiary phase of his life saw Landy volunteering on international humanitarian projects, an experience that laid the foundation of his future ‘purpose driven’ career in architecture and design. He returned to Deakin to complete his degree and joined ClarkeHopkinsClarke, where he leads the design and delivery of some of Australia’s largest and most ambitious urban developments, including town centres, mixed use projects, and urban renewal precincts. Landy is also the founder-director of One Heart Foundation, an Australian ‘for purpose’ organisation working in Kenya to alleviate poverty by building and operating schools, children’s homes and skills training centres.Looking back on where it all began, Landy recalls how as a 19-year-old student in Nottingham, he felt the drive to learn a little bit more about the bigger world around him. Interview by Jarrod Reedie
11/20/202349 minutes, 12 seconds
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Episode 183: Llewellyn Regler and Matthew O'Neill on flammable cladding, condensation, the NCC and what's next for the building industry

Llewellyn Regler is the National Technical Manager for facades at Network Architectural. He helps to ensure that all products we deliver to the façade market are safe and of high quality.Matthew O’Neill has 10 years engineering and consulting experience in the façade industry. Leveraging his commercial and residential design experience, Matthew has expanded his expertise to include facade remedial works in the existing building space.In this wide-ranging and revealing interview, Llewellyn and Matthew explain the intricacies of facade design and what is and isn't the right way to address the issue of flammable cladding and where do we need to be in the very near future.This podcast is brought to you in association with Network Architectural.
11/13/20231 hour, 45 seconds
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Episode 171: Callie van der Merwe from Design Partnership reveals the secrets of designing a successful restaurant

As the founder of the Design Partnership, Callie van der Merwe began his career as an architect in the early 1990’s before changing over to hospitality architecture in the early 2000’s. Since then, he has completed multiple award winning and successful hotel and hospitality interior spaces all over the world with a signature philosophical approach of design for predictive behaviour.In this interview, he reveals the secrets of designing a successful & vibrant restaurant.This podcast is brought to you in association with GH Commercial proud sponsors of our 2023 Commercial series of podcasts. 
8/21/202344 minutes, 21 seconds
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Episode 150: Architect Brian Hooper and Michael Lavery from M3 architecture talk about the positive outcome of the Barcaldine Master Plan

Architect Brian Hooper and Michael Lavery from M3 architecture explain how and why the creation of the Barcaldine Master Plan and subsequent design resulted in a huge increase in tourism off the back of 3 critical projects in the central west Queensland town of Barcaldine.
4/3/202329 minutes, 1 second
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Episode 141: Former Head of Sustainability at AMP Capital Real Estate Chris Nunn on how & why Sustainability is changing

Chris Nunn is the former Head of Sustainability at AMP Capital Real Estate, which has a portfolio valued at approximately $28 billion, consisting of approximately 100 shopping centres, offices and industrial assets. He is also the winner of the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2022 Sustainability Awards and a man who's whole working career has been about promoting the concept of sustainable growth  across Australia's corporate sector.He talks with us about how the idea of sustainability is changing and where it will ultimately end up and how this will affect us all.This episode is brought to you by Bluescope Steel, proud sponsors of the Lifetime Achievement category at the 2022 Sustainability Awards. 
1/30/202337 minutes, 35 seconds
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Episode 121: Industrial designer and founder of Reef Design Lab Alex Goad talks about the amazing things you can do with coral reef restoration technology

Alex Goad is passionate about using design for marine restoration and the role it is playing to communicate research to the wider public. His work is focused on combining digital fabrication with traditional techniques to create economically viable habitat solutions that respond to current environmental issues. Alex leads the studio’s collaborative approach to research projects and product development. Alex’s work has been exhibited internationally and acquired in the permanent collection of museums including New York’s MoMA, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Helsinki Design Museum.In this exclusive one-on-one interview, Alex explains the amazing potential of  new ideas and technologies in design, architecture, engineering, science, the humanities and the arts and how these disciplines and design innovations can help address the urgent issues of our times.Alex Goad will appear at the Sydney Opera House in conversation with Dr Danièle Hromek in BUILD: Life Below Water on Thursday 1 September.
8/22/202229 minutes, 12 seconds
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Episode 63: Chris McCue from Carr on New Brutalism, Biophilic design and his new project at Brunswick Yard

Chris McCue, the managing director Carr, with extensive experience and speciality within the architecture and interior design of high-end residential, multi-residential and hospitality work, is now focusing on redesigning former industrial sites like that at Brunswick Yard in Melbourne.As a firm believer of wellness for the home environment, McCue notes that light and biophilia are just some of the ways we can better our living spaces. “Given we now spend more than 90 percent of our time indoors, it is vital that we explore new ways to engineer our indoor environments so they become ecosystems for improving physical and mental health," he says.
2/14/202131 minutes, 21 seconds
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Episode 29: Talking Architecture & Design speaks with Jodie Taylor, International Towers' head of Marketing & Stakeholder Engagement

During FRONT 2019, we sat down with International Towers' head of Marketing & Stakeholder Engagement, Jodie Taylor, to talk about, corporate design, her Indigenous heritage and how the Big End of Town is learning to embrace and promote Australia’s rich and deep Indigenous heritage.
10/14/201923 minutes, 30 seconds
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Episode 27: Talking Architecture & Design talks with Simone Oliver from Architectus about the future of workplace design

“The nature of work has radically changed,” says Simone Oliver, national sector leader – interior architecture at Architectus and Ambassador to FRONT.design 2019. “The rise of technology, automation, globalisation” – these are the big-picture forces driving change. On the ground, we see it play out through rapidly growing markets like the gig economy and co-working. Influenced by a clashing of typologies in which seemingly disparate markets like social media, education and hospitality bring new depth to what was a clearly delineated field of reference.Simone Oliver outlines the defining design influences in workplace design of our time and the role the architecture profession plays within that.
10/2/201925 minutes, 29 seconds
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Episode 12: Graham McCabe from Urbis talks transport & urban design

Graham, Director of Urbis’ Transport Advisory service, is a transport planner and traffic engineer with over 20 years’ experience in developing and leading innovative transport planning and traffic engineering projects.  Graham has deep experience and understanding in the interrelationship between land-use, activity and transport.  He has developed innovative designs to enable improved connectivity at a human and city scale, and specialises in cost effective, holistic transport solutions. Graham has expertise in transport planning, public transport system design, traffic engineering and modelling, and designing for walking and cycling. A trusted advisor to government, he talks about what it will take to fix Australia's urban transport woes.
3/7/201945 minutes, 59 seconds
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Episode #11 Talking Architecture & Design speaks with Philip Vivian from Bates Smart

In this edition of Talking Architecture and Design, we talk with Bates Smart director Philip Vivian on the sustainable benefits of timber architecture, the urgent need for urban densification, building for the long term, affordable housing and automation in design.
2/21/201932 minutes, 29 seconds
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Episode #10: Talking Architecture & Design with Ed Horton from The Stable Group

In this edition of Talking Architecture and Design, Ed Horton, founding director of award-winning property developers, The Stable Group talks about sustainable building, limitations of the legacy approach to building, challenging convention, adaptive reuse of old buildings, the need for councils to incentivise sustainability, the embedded electricity network trend, and the housing market.
1/18/201933 minutes, 43 seconds
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Episode #9: Talking residential design and improved sustainability with Paolo Bevilacqua

In this edition of Talking Architecture and Design, we speak with Paolo Bevilacqua, general manager, Sustainability and Real Utilities at Frasers Property Australia, on the increased focus on sustainability among developers, residential solar installations, energy security, community microgrids and Fraser’s green power push.
12/16/201831 minutes, 30 seconds
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Episode #8: Talking Architecture & Design speaks with architect, academic and educator Tone Wheeler

In this edition of Talking Architecture and Design, Branko Miletic speaks with Tone Wheeler, the principal and director of Environa Studio and a passionate advocate for environmental architecture. He has taught at universities for over 40 years and designed every type of structure conceivable, his sustainability credentials extend way beyond the ordinary, and he is much more than just a designer of things; he's a chronicler of the changing mood of Australian architecture and its many iterations over the years. In this podcast, Tone Wheeler discusses the ‘Sydney School’ of architecture, about architecture needing purpose and place, localisation, sustainability and the growing population, robots, and the need to ‘slow it down’.
11/28/201853 minutes, 29 seconds
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Episode #7: Talking Architecture & Design speaks with architect Sandra Furtado

Episode #7: Talking Architecture & Design speaks with architect Sandra Furtado by Architecture & Design
10/30/201846 minutes, 59 seconds
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Episode #6: Talking architecture and design with Nick Deeks from WT Partnership

We talk to Nick Deeks about urban planning, smart cities and what we are getting wrong with urban design.
10/7/201838 minutes, 59 seconds
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Episode #5: Talking Architecture and Design talks to Ross Styles from Architectus

Episode #5: Talking Architecture and Design talks to Ross Styles from Architectus by Architecture & Design
8/20/201840 minutes, 30 seconds
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Episode #4: Talking Architecture and Design speaks with Amanda Visser from The Star

Amanda Visser is group manager – Sustainability at The Star Entertainment Group, speaks with about The Star Entertainment Group’s sustainability journey since 2013, their performance in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) Assessment in 2016, and the impact of their sustainability efforts on costs, efficiency, business growth and the community.
8/20/201818 minutes, 40 seconds
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Episode #3: Mark Wilde talks court design

Mark Wilde has worked on a number of previous law court designs like the Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law in Brisbane, “which took a radical departure from traditional court design by exhibiting a high level of transparency and lightness”, says Wilde. This element was built upon in the design of Shepparton Law Courts, where natural light weaves throughout the building. Court design we find, is a lot more complex and involved than we thought.
7/3/201834 minutes, 29 seconds
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Episode #2: Talking with Helen Lochhead, president-elect of the Australian Institute of Architects

Professor Helen Lochhead talks about the urban planning challenges facing Sydney & Melbourne.
6/12/201837 minutes, 49 seconds
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Episode #1: Talking with Robin Mellon, CEO of Australia's Supply Chain Sustainability School

Interview with Robin Mellon, ex-Green Building Council of Australia chief operating officer and now chief executive of Australia's Supply Chain Sustainability School. Robin Mellon talks sustainability, planning, architecture and the impact of modern slavery on Australia’s built environment.
3/23/201830 minutes, 11 seconds