The Tiing Nic Brunsdon

Perth-based architect Nic Brunsdon believes in the capacity of architecture to shape our environment and influence the lives of people who inhabit and experience it. The scale of influence is proportional to the scale of the architecture, both as an intervention in an existing context and in the number of lives that can benefit positively from it. For emerging architects in Australia, it is challenging to realize these ambitions when confronted with contemporary methods of procurement and risk-averse barriers to engagement on larger-scale projects.

Since 2011, Brunsdon has been facilitating small-scale interventions in Perth, many of them self-initiated. Spacemarket, co-founded in 2011 with Beth George, activated vacant and undervalued spaces by creating flexible tenancies for emerging and established businesses, while Post Architecture