Where does the line get drawn between interest and profession with architects and interior designers? Does it even get drawn or is it more of a blurred, fuzzy partition? Obviously there needs to be an interest in what you are doing when in these professions, you wouldn’t be doing it otherwise. But, how does one separate this?

This is not an article or post saying the pros of trends are better than the cons or vice versa. However, what this provides us with is an idea of how we as individuals want to feel in our spaces and also how we can think of spaces and occupy them. It's less about the trends and the season it’s in and more about creating a space that is timeless (even if just for you).

Why is sketching and drawing so important for architects and designers?

It allows the freedom of thought to be processed. The more ideas that are poured out of the self, the more room there is for more ideas. It is the ease, of which, the hand-eye-brain coordination that can bring things to fruition much faster than computer-aided design, modelling and drafting can. This is not to say there aren’t any benefits of computers and what they can do to help. However, to sketch an initial idea is faster by hand than to try for hours on end to get a similar thought or idea out onto the screen.

A follow-up from the previous article, ‘The perception of architects’ fees’, If you have not yet read it, please do, it’s not mandatory, however it discusses the perspectives of architects’ fees both within the industry and outside of it. As it is mentioned, the perception of architects fees leads to the question, what is the value of an architect? In a monetary and non-monetary sense.

Finding clarity in the complexities of architects’ fees both internally and externally to the industry.

There is complexity surrounding the perceptions of architects’ fees than what we realise, both within the profession and outside it. The outside (public) perception is that architects are expensive, while the architects’ perspectives are ‘architects are paid so little,’ ‘architects are never rich,’ or ‘architects never have money.’

I’m Tegan Hancock, welcome to CaSO four. Back in 2015 I was accepted to participate in the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass, an experience I’ll never forget. Coming forward two years to 2017, I attended the Melbourne Conference (both events hosted by Oz.e.tecture Architecture Foundation Australia). The theme of the conference, ‘hots and cools’, the design and architectural responses in different climates from the North to the South (the Arctic to Antarctica).