ABOUT US Raised on the east coast of Australia, Ben studied architecture at the University of Sydney, before heading to The University of Tokyo, to pursue a masters degree in Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism, in conjunction with residencies at major universities on the east coast of America. He has 4 years of commercial, and rather practical architectural experience in Sydney. 2 years experience on and off in Japans most prominent design architecture firms, SANAA, and Jun'ya Ishigami & Associates. He did a stint at Jun Sato structural engineers, as the digital engineer on the Venice Biennale pavilion representing Japan, before landing at Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo, for a year, later helping to found Sou Fujimoto Atelier in Paris for another year. Now based out of Newcastle/Sydney, he accepts any project, any budget, providing the client is open minded and willing to explore unchartered areas of design. He's open to doing a residency in locations throughout the world, in order to understand the client, and context surrounding the build. With private projects, he'd love to wrap a design around a client, like a painter does a portrait. For public projects, he's wanting to push the local environment for positive social change.