Designers Speak - Mixing It Up CHRISTCHURCH

Designers Speak - Mixing It Up  (RAB 10 CPD points)

Sons & Co
Title: Please don't come
Soundbite: Things we think about when we think about web design.

RTA Studio - Rich Naish
Title: Ironbank 

Strategy Design & Advertising - Guy Pask
Title: 23 things I wish I'd known
Soundbite: A common sense approach to doing good work, running a business and trying to stay sane.

Presenters

Guy Pask - Strategy Design & Advertising

Guy Pask is founding partner and group creative director of Strategy Design and Advertising. Since 1992 Strategy has grown into an internationally award winning network of design-led advertising studio's based in Auckland, Christchurch and Sydney. Strategy's creative process is centred around thinking, image-making and craftsmanship.

Sons & Co.

Matthew Arnold & Timothy Kelleher are founders of Sons & Co.

Rich Naish - RTA Studio

A graduate of Auckland University School of Architecture, Richard commenced his career at Jasmax and then spent 3 years at ORMS Architects in London, before returning to Jasmax where he left his Senior Architect position in 1999.

Richard was the founding partner of RTA Studio and since July 1999 has been responsible for the development of the design direction and philosophy of the practice. His principal skills are in balancing visionary qualities of design with the varying urban and rural contexts that the practice works within.

Under his design leadership the practice has won a number of architectural competitions and received over 30 New Zealand Institute of Architects regional and national Awards as well as several International Architectural Awards.

In 2009 Richard was Adjunct Professor at the Unitec Architecture School and also served 4 years as an External Examiner at the same institution. He has been the Convenor of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Local Architecture Awards and the New Zealand Architecture Awards as well as serving on the Jury of the Supreme awards.

Richard has presented the practices’ work at the New Zealand Institute of Architects 2008 Conference as well as specking on a national lecture series across the country and in 2009 presented the practices’ work at the University of Auckland Fast Forward Lecture Series.

The output of RTA Studio is across varied building sectors, in particular – new commercial, heritage and urban renewal, houses, tertiary, secondary and primary education, urban design, master planning and interior design. RTA Studio houses have won awards at a local and national level as have their commercial and educational buildings.

RTA Studio’s projects has been published extensively both nationally and internationally.

Most recently their Ironbank building in Karangahape Road, Auckland has been Highly Commended at the 2009 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, Spain as well receiving a Highly Commended Award in the MIPIM Architectural Review Awards for Future Buildings in Cannes in 2008, France before the project was completed. This building has also been awarded 4 Auckland Architecture Awards by the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 2009; 2 New Zealand Awards and the NZ Architectural Medal for 2010. Urbis magazine selected Ironbank as Best New Zealand Building and RTA Studio as Best Architectural Practice for 2009.

  Ironbank, Auckland

Supported by Dulux

Posted on: May 4, 2011