Sarah Lebner is director of Cooee Architecture in rural New South Wales. She was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Emerging Architect Prize in 2020 and the Dulux Study Tour in 2023. She also runs a national platform and mentoring scheme My First Architecture Job and published her book 101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School (and wish I’d known before my first job) in 2019.
Sarah Lebner's Latest contributions
Maintaining momentum in our challenging profession
In her latest column, Sarah Lebner explores the key motivations that keep architects going in the face of mounting challenges.
The passion projects of Alvar and Aino Aalto’s own home
A visit to the Aalto House in Finland, designed in 1936 by a young Alvar and Aino Aalto, is a lesson in experimentation and delighting in the imperfect.
What are we practising for?
In exploring the effectiveness and impact of architecture, Sarah Lebner suggests that it’s time to move beyond self-limiting fears and default modes of practice and embrace more efficient, innovative and joyful ways of running architecture businesses.
Pioneering simplicity in Helsinki
In her first column for ArchitectureAU, Sarah Lebner reflects on her meeting with Finnish studio Collaboratorio, where she found a couple of enterprising architects who are building their practice “as a machine for making it happen.”
