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Now celebrating its second year, Talking Architecture & Design is Australia’s first B2B architecture podcast that regularly talks about a range of issues that affect Australia’s architects,...

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Episode 318: Liam O’Donohue, Managing Principal ANZ, Arup, on how AI is set to change the role of the engineer

Engineering has traditionally been understood as a discipline focused on solving technical problems—designing structures, calculating loads,...

32:48Oct 20, 2026

Episode 317: Architect & builder Clinton Cole on the big questions when it comes to designing sustainable homes

Clinton Cole is a boundary-pushing architect and builder who believes we can all be a force for good. With industry-leading expertise in reg...

37:30Oct 13, 2026

Episode 316: Will Messiter from Sekisui House on housing affordability, prefab and modular houses and some ideas on fixing our house shortage

In our first Shortcast in over two years, we talk with Will Messiter, Chief Operating Officer - Residential Communities and Home Building at...

8:32Oct 6, 2026

Episode 315: Jono Mountfort on how to reduce the carbon embodied in the materials and products used in the built environment

As operational energy efficiency improves, attention is increasingly turning to embodied carbon—the emissions associated with extracting raw...

43:06Sep 30, 2026

Episode 314: Tara Veldman, Managing Director & Principal, Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) on how architecture can influence how people feel, heal and connect

Tara Veldman, Managing Director and Principal at Billard Leece Partnership, has played a major role in growing BLP’s health architecture pra...

39:30Sep 23, 2026

Episode 313: Kevin Hogan on the use of BIM and AI to reduce waste, improve productivity and change how buildings are delivered

Kevin Hogan, Head of Design & Digital Engineering at Kapitol Group leads an in-house team of more than 20 digital engineers, design managers...

27:22Sep 15, 2026

Episode 312: BVN chalks up a century of design & why this matters for them and the design industry

We talk with BVN CEOS & principals, Ali Bounds, Principal & Co-CEO (Sydney) and Neil Logan, Principal & Co-CEO (Brisbane) about the signifan...

13:46Sep 8, 2026

Episode 311: Jocelyn Martin, Managing Director, Housing Industry Association on skills shortages & what the housing sector really needs

After more than a decade with the HIA in senior leadership roles, Jocelyn Martin, Managing Director of the Housing Industry Association step...

51:11Sep 1, 2026

Episode 310: Robert Sobyra from BuildSkills Australia on how to fix our building industry skills shortages

Australia has committed to building 1.2 million new homes over five years, but there's one enormous obstacle standing in the way: people. Ac...

38:20Aug 25, 2026

Episode 309: Renee Gigliotti, Associate Director at The Studio Collaborative* on transforming the hospitality spaces at Afterpay Arena

In this episode, we're talking with Renee Gigliotti, Associate Director at The Studio Collaborative* at how thoughtful interior architecture...

18:06Aug 18, 2026

Episode 308: Associate Professor Andrea Sharam from RMIT University on why Australia's housing boom-and-bust cycle is holding back new homes

Australia is facing one of its biggest housing challenges in decades, with the federal government's National Housing Accord aiming to delive...

30:43Aug 11, 2026

Episode 307: Airport lounge design: Creating the best passenger experience beyond the terminal with Hassell duo Joanna Ho, interior designer and Rosie Morley, Principal

For decades, airport lounges were viewed simply as waiting rooms for premium travellers. Today, they're something much more sophisticated—ex...

39:51Aug 4, 2026

Episode 306: Decay and Play: Towards a living cemetery with architect & PhD graduate, Isabel Lasala

According to PhD graduate Isabel Lasala, who is also an architect and landscape architect, and one of the directors of Lasala & Lasala Desig...

24:26Jul 28, 2026

Episode 305: Designing sustainably for health & wellbeing with Tamara White from WAM

In this episode, sponsored by Autex Acoustics, we talk with Tamara White from Warren and Mahoney (WAM), whose work spans creating environmen...

41:48Jul 21, 2026

Episode 304: Plus Studio Principal John Walsh on how shared-use & hybrid buildings are redefining design for density, community, and long-term value

Drawing from his local and overseas architecture experience, recently appointed Plus Studio principal John Walsh, in this episode, unpacks h...

29:10Jul 14, 2026

Episode 303: The wonders of straw-based panels with Derek Layfield, Managing Director of Durra Panel & Michael Jones, Studio Lead – Design at AJC Architects

Derek Layfield, Managing Director of Durra Panel, who has championed straw-based panel technology for decades, and Michael Jones, Studio Lea...

72:44Jul 7, 2026

Episode 302: David Holm, Principal at Cox Architecture on the intersection of connectivity, culture, and placemaking

David Holm, Principal at Cox Architecture has a career spanning major transport and civic infrastructure—from international airports like th...

21:24Jun 30, 2026

Episode 301: Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, co-founder of Snøhetta explains how architecture can shape culture, public life, and collective futures

In this episode of Talking Architecture & Design, we speak with Kjetil Thorsen, co-founder of Snøhetta—the Oslo-based, globally recognised p...

27:50Jun 23, 2026

Episode 300: Jacob Burke, founder of Mijasu, on removing the bottlenecks for people‑centred outcomes across the built environment

Jacob Burke is the founder of Mijasu, an interdisciplinary group of design practices focused on people‑centred outcomes across the built env...

50:09Jun 16, 2026

Episode 299: Zoe Schmidt & Paul Charteris on how low-carbon construction can actually work

This episode tackles one of construction’s biggest questions: If the built environment needs to rapidly cut embodied carbon, what materials...

46:02Jun 9, 2026