On the journey
What led you to your careers in architecture? Jess: Strangely, we’d both planned to study medicine, but somewhat inadvertently ended up at the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture, thanks to chance conversations and the realisation that it’d be a good fit for our shared love of arts and sciences.
You’ve been running your Auckland-based practice Bureaux together since We started with just the two of us working collaboratively, and founded Bureaux in the aftermath of the GFC, when most architectural studios were scrambling to stay alive. It was a magical time, because we were young and carefree, and the financial climate was so perilous that we had the opportunity not to care about money and just run with ideas and experiment with architecture, interiors and events. We worked hard and sometimes for free, but it was worth it.
