If you decide to embark on starting your own practice and would like to work on public projects, there are many pathways. I don’t believe that any singular one is better than another. In fact, a combination of many paths will help set you in the right direction on what is inevitably a long – but satisfying – road. Here are my suggestions and personal reflections, 10 years after setting up my own collaborative practice.
Undertake research projects for university or architecture exhibitions, or engage in self-directed research. Write about building typologies that interest you. Visit projects locally, nationally and overseas if you can; seek to understand the challenges that the architects may have encountered during design, documentation and construction or since completion. Knowledge of other projects can help
