Architectural Review Asia Pacific is delighted to announce a new initiative allowing young professionals to become contributing online editorial assistants for Australian Design Review. It is a unique opportunity for all involved and we’re excited at the prospect of reading what they have to say.

Coming from various locations, backgrounds and positions in the discipline, their articles will test theories, review projects, view exhibitions/events, provide researched content, and much, much more. Some have research interests in certain areas, expertise in others, or are simply driven by curiosity and intrigue.

We hope that channeling each of these aspects will provide ADR with some fascinating content. The first article will be posted online through our Opinion page on March 3, 2014.

So here is the new team (in no particular order):

Michael Parsons is based on the Gold Coast and is a recent graduate from Bond University; with key interests in digital fabrication and computational design and ‘their potential to empower and enable the Architect in the design process’.

Jack Davies is a graduate architect from the Victoria University of Wellington and is a practising architect at Hayball Architects.

Sarah Hurst is focused on ‘interactions and sociability and the built fabric’ and is a graduate from the University of Tasmania as well as a practising architect at Fender Katsalidis Architects, Melbourne.

Sara Best is an architect at Smart Design Studio, Sydney and has spent the last two years soaking up the Scandinavian aesthetic. Sara’s key interests are urban design and sociology.

Charles Rowe is a graduate architect, based in Brisbane, and is currently a Research Assistant at University of Queensland. His key areas are architectural history and monumentality.

Wesley Perrot is a graduate from the Architectural Association (UK), a pracitising architect in Sydney and a registered architect in the Netherlands.

Joanne Taylor is co-director of the Boiler House Studios, Sydney and a graduate from the University of Technology Sydney, working between Sydney, Melbourne and Aceh. Her primary focus is on the contemporary practice and social design strategies.