The most disruptive event of a generation, the COVID-19 pandemic will have serious implications for many areas of the built environment.
In the short term, the economic impacts have had a substantial effect on the architecture profession, as clients abandon their projects.
This massive disruption is a transformational moment that could lead to a rethink of models of practice for architects and raise the question of how architects can remake the world.
In this episode of the Design Speaks podcast, we check in with a selection of built environment professionals for a “pulse check” of how the industry is fairing.
We know from surveys conducted by the Association of Consulting Architects and the Australian Institute of Architects that around 6 out of every 10 architects are on Job Keeper and billions of dollars worth of projects are on hold or cancelled. Is this a sign of an impending cliff or a temporary pause?
We’ll hear from Jon Clements, founding partner of Jackson Clements Burrows and past national president of the Australian Institute of Architects; Olivia Hyde, acting deputy NSW Government Architect and Director of Design Excellence; Ingrid Bakker, managing principal and regional leader of Hassell; Peter Raisbeck, senior lecturer in architectural design and practice at the University of Melbourne and research director of the Association of Consulting Architects Australia; Kate Fitzgerald, director of Whispering Smith Architecture; Sarah Lebner, principal architect at Lighthouse Architecture and Design and author of the book 101 Things I didn’t learn in architecture school: and I wish I’d have known before my first job; and Leanne Haider, president of the Australian Institute of Architects student body, SONA, and fifth year architecture student.
