THREE INTO TWO DOESGO

With a wall full of prize certificates and a formidable raft of acclaimed projects under its belt, Architects EAT is one of Australia’s most beloved and successful small practices. Established at the dawn of the new millennium by three young architects, it has been run for the last decade or so by two of those founders – the E and A of the practice name, Albert Mo and Eid Goh.

Mo and Goh met at Melbourne University, but didn’t really click until a process of attrition made their association inevitable. “There were 150 in the first year, a mixture of architects and 50-odd builders,” recalls Goh. “Obviously, it shrank and shrank until we had to look at each other, because the final year became a bit more intimate. It ended up being quite a close-knit community and that’s when we started exploring the idea of opening a practice.”

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