Profile

Design Philosophy and Process

Adhami Pender Architecture is an established and creative boutique architectural studio. For twenty years, we have undertaken projects in the Canberra, New South Wales, and Queensland regions. Projects have included Embassies, Police Station, Health Facilities, Schools, Childcare centres, and many forms of housing for both public and private clients. Although renowned for innovative and often surprising design, all of our work is undertaken as a full professional architectural service.

Our mission is to achieve the unity of beauty, spirit & form in environmentally sensitive design. We seek new challenges, and celebrate differences in people by tuning into their whole being — mind, body, soul and spirit — both rationally and intuitively. We listen to people, we do not believe in fashion, we improvise, adapt, try new approaches. For us, a new project is an opportunity to explore different ways of doing things: to learn from the past, but also to try to build for the future. It means we need to have a broader range of skills because we do different things at different times. We stay agile and light. It’s more diverse, and it’s more interesting.

We seek out the synergy between a site, the clients, the architect, trades people & the authorities. We try to overcome ego and to be open to a sense of community.