As climate change, housing affordability and social equity reshape our communities, architects have an opportunity to demonstrate the value of good design to a much wider audience. Rachael Bernstone explores how to change the narrative, and make architecture more accessible, relevant and impactful for everyone.

Rachael joined architects Sarah Lebner, Amelia Lee and Rebecca Caldwell onstage at the National Architecture Conference in 2023 - held in Canberra - to ask the pointed question: ‘What are we practising for?’
Sarah Lebner’s article from ArchitectureAu sums up our key ideas.

Rachael Bernstone of Sounds like Design connects the wellbeing of architects with fee-setting and communicating the value of architecture. This article was re-published on the ACA website.

Architects who want to facilitate structural change - but largely rely on clients and regulators to set financial and environmental parameters on projects - feel apprehensive about climate change goals. This article sets out five steps for architects to become agents of change and the best ways to engage clients (and the broader public) around these complex issues.

A diverse selection of new multi-residential projects demonstrates that Perth architects and their developer clients are challenging the status quo, to deliver sustainable growth and liveability in existing suburbs

This article - republished by The Fifth Estate - explores why greater adoption of BIM and LCA technologies could improve efficiency, transparency and sustainability across the design and construction process.

Next generation architects will have to grapple with more complexity in the built environment than ever before, so how are universities helping students prepare for these challenges?

The Corona-virus pandemic has sharply focussed architects’ attention on bringing in new clients and projects. But before you kick off a new marketing blitz, it’s worth tracking a few key metrics, to make sure your efforts are targeted and effective.

Two little-known ingredients – anthropological research and authentic storytelling – can help designers to “create places that boom”, according to an event held in Perth.

In an increasingly globalised architecture and construction market, the number of large-scale projects being delivered as joint ventures and under JV contractual agreements is growing, but with increased size and complexity comes additional risks and new challenges. Is your firm ready to compete?

The Business of Small Practice (BoSP) forum series is an initiative of the Western Australian Committee of the ACA (Association of Consulting Architects). It brings together architects to share insights about the behind the scenes functions of practice. This event – which took place in Perth in May 2019 – focused on Money Matters.

Capitalising on opportunities in the “connection economy” is a great way for small architecture practices to prosper, as the profession struggles to cope with digital disruption and other challenges, according to an Association of Consulting Architects Australia (ACA) forum held in Perth in July 2018.