On my graduating year of the Masters of Architecture at UNSW (2009!) I was offered a graduate tutoring position at the same school by one of my mentors Ann Quinlan at the time. I took the job while working for Paul Pholeros and it ignited a passion in teaching. Mostly I loved creating a collaborative and welcoming culture in my studios whilst persisting for high quality thinking and creating. My tutoring “on-the-side” lasted about 6 years and spanned 3 different Architecture and Design schools before I decided to spend more time focussing on my architecture career.

This year, I’ve had the opportunity to work under the stewardship of architect and course coordinator Micheal Muir to tutor architecture students in a technologies course that educates undergrads in considering site on a global and local scale before responding with appropriate design and construction techniques. With an emphasis on the hand drawn and built (models) over computer modelling this course is has really reinforced my passion for the profession and its emergent generations.