Competition
2016 February, Awarded, Guide Hill Station, Blue Lake Investment Ltd
2014 July, Shortlisted, Martinbourough Community Centre
2014 June, Akepiro Housing Competition, Two schemes for Auckland brown field site
2013 Shortlisted NZ dubmission with Dr Paul Walker & Trish Clark, 14th Venice Biennale exhibition
2011 Shortlisted- World Architecture Awards, Barcelona, Waitomo Glowworm Caves Visitor Centre, 2011
2011 June, Finalist,‘Auckland Waterfront Hotel Competition’
2005 NZ entrant selected for Waitangi Precinct International Competition with KTA
Design Review
2024 November Judge, World Architecture Festival, Singapore
2023 November Judge, World Architecture Festival, Singapore
2017 Monash Design Students Design Review
2015 VUW Thesis Students Design Review
2014 Monash Design Students Design Review
2008 November Judge, World Architecture Festival, Barcelona
2005 NZ Concrete Association Awards Judge
2005 Affidavit/Expert Evidence for Urban Auckland, judicator
2003 NZIA National Juror and Central Regional Convenor Awards
2001 NZIA National Juror and Central Regional Convenor Awards
2000 May, NSW Inst Structural Eng. Aurora Place design collaboration
2000 Judge Tasman Building Products Architectural Awards
Exhibition
2017 Ahuriri Valley Lodge, Furture Islands: Adam Art Gallery, VUW
2016 The NZ Pavilion, Venice Biennale exhibition, Future Islands, Ahuriri Valley Lodge
2015 Billy Apple, The Artist Has to Live like Everybody Else, Auckland Art Gallery, NML Tower
2014 The NZ Pavilion, Venice Biennale exhibition, Last Loneliest Loveliest, Waitomo Visitors Centre
2011 UIA 24th World Congress of Architecture,Tokyo, Waitomo Glowworm Caves Visitor Centre
2010 SFMOMA, ‘How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine’, Exhibition San Francisco
2008 High-Tech & Tradition exhibition, Tokyo, December
2008 Deutsches Architektur Museum exhibition, Frankfurt, November
2006 ‘Homo Faber’, Model Exhibition, RMIT, Melbourne, June
Talks
2026 August, AHICE Aotearoa Hotel Industry Conference & Exhibition
2026 Kaisen - Simplicity Living - Building Residential Hi-Density for $3200m2
2025 July, Adapt, Don't Demolish - The Case for Retrofit in New Zealand's Housing Crisis
2025 April, Architects not Architecture Auckland 2025
2024 Sep '10 Housing Demand and Supply Solutions', Greytown Town Hall
2024 Sep NZIA City Talks, '10 Housing Demand and Supply Solutions', Wharewaka, Wellington
2018 August UTS School of Architecture ‘3 Rooves’, Sydney
2018 May Axis Small Home Test Lab, Urbanisation Conference, Wellington
2017 Dec Ahuriri Valley Lodge, Adams Art Gallery, Lecture, Wellington
2016 Sep The Real Lecture Series '3 Roofs', Deakin University, Lecture, Wellington
2016 July Intergrain Timber Vision Awards, Judge and Panel Speaker, Sydney
2016 July Design Speaks, Housing Futures, Panel Speaker, Sydney
2016 May Collaborative Engineering, University of Canterbury, Lecture, with Alistair Cattanach
2015 Monash PHD Workshop Presentation
2015 May Adam Art Gallery 'Drawing is / not a building', Panel Speaker
2015 May NZIA Branch City Talks, City Gallery Wellington, 'Inside Piano' - Three Short Films
2014 The Hawkes Bay Innovation in Architecture Lecture Series, Keynote Speaker
2013 NZIA Affordable Housing Conference Keynote Speaker with HLC and Isthmus
2012 June NZIA Christchurch branch ‘Theatre of inward looking’
2011 June Keynote speaker: buildNZ / designex, ‘The circle and the line’
2011 Keynote speaker: NZIA CPD days, ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’, June 2011
2011 Melbourne Open House: Good Design Case Studies
2011Keynote Speaker RAIA National Conference, Melbourne
2010 July, ANZAC Hall Series, Featherston, ‘Local Modernism’
2010 Keynote Speaker UIA Forum, Equilibrium, Bangkok
2009 November, University of Auckland Fast Forward Lecture Series
2009 October, Monash University, Melbourne, ‘Recent Work’
2009 October, New Zealand Wood Conference, ‘Halftime Talk’
2009 May, ‘Civilization and Nature’, Wellington Arch Centre talk
2009 Keynote Speaker, ReHab, ACT
2008 Stadelschule Alumni, keynote speaker, Frankfurt, November
2008 World Architecture Festival - presenter, Barcelona
2007 Keynote Speaker, New Trends, Perth
2006 October, ‘Freedom & Nostalgia’, UNITEC talk, Auckland
2006 Keynote Speaker RAIA National Conference, Sydney
2005 November,‘Peregrine Winery’, NZIA design series tour
2005 October, ‘Freedom & Nostalgia’, RMIT talk, Melbourne
2005 September VUW keynote, ‘Dependence & Innovation’, Wellington
2005 September, Waitangi Competition talk, ‘Promenade & Promontory’, City Gallery Wellington
2005 July, QUT talk, ‘Dependence & Innovation’, Brisbane
2005 April, RAIA Conference Club lecture series, Melbourne 2005
2005 February, RIBA Spring lecture series, ‘Emerging Architects’, London
2005 February, Master Planning Symposium ‘Improving urban design& creating successful masterplans’, London
2005 Creative Director RAIA National Conference, Melbourne
2005 Guest Speaker New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific
2005 Keynote Speaker NZIA Conference, Auckland
2004 Govett Brewster, ‘Concept, Commerce & Common Sense’, WOAD panel October
2004 Civic Trust Forum. Design intent, Civic Square September
2004 Guest Speaker New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2004–2005 Hong Kong
2004 Guest Speaker New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2004–2005 Lille
2003 October, World Architecture Week, Public lecture, ‘Reading our Territory’
2003 June, 7X7, ‘Destroy Intelligently, Obay project’, e-Vision Wellington June 2
2003 Half Time Club Melbourne, ‘Reading our Territory’, May
2003 Royal Australian Institute of Architects National 2003 Conference, keynote presentation
2003 Weltec, ‘Landscape work’, end of term talk series 2003
2001 Unitec, ‘40 under 40’, NZ Architect lecture series 2001
2001 Canterbury Branch NZIA, ‘Townscape and Technique’ Christchurch, October
2001 7X7, ‘Recent Work’, e-Vision Wellington March 2001
2000 Victoria Institute of Architects, ‘Big City Living’ Melbourne June 2000
2000 Light Structures Assoc of Australasia, ‘Aurora Place Glass Canopy’, Auckland February
2000 Nominated MCA Seppelt Contemporary Art Award, Environmental Design
1999 Wellington Branch NZIA, ‘An Unbroken Line’ Wellington December 1999
1997 Architecture Students Association, ‘Parts & Process’, Victoria Wellington August
1996 Light Structures Assoc. of Australasia. ‘Rules for Collaboration’, Brisbane, 13 September
1996 Deakin University, ‘Recent Work’, Melbourne Australia 10 September 1996