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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Covering A Broad Design Spectrum
Cotton Tree Housing Interior
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Cotton Tree Housing Exterior
Clare Residence
Rainbow Shores, Surfside
Trinity Apartments
Clifford-Forsyth House
Hammond Residence
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Architectus is a team of over 180 highly skilled architects, urban designers and planners with offices in Sydney, Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne and Shanghai. Our vision is to provide the highest standard of design for the built environment through a combination of the best design resources and the most highly experienced professionals available.
Our experience spans a broad spectrum of projects including:
Urban Design
Planning
Public
Commercial
Residential
Educational
Hospitality & Leisure
Industrial
Research
Transport
Retail
Interior Architecture
Architectus designs buildings notable for their simplicity, performance and fitness for purpose. This is achieved by working closely with our clients to understand their objectives, clarifying the design brief, developing rational planning strategies and researching appropriate materials and technologies.
Our design strategy entails respect for climate, place and context; balancing social and community concerns in built developments; minimising negative environmental and ecological effect; and meeting time/budget targets.
The design integrity and quality of our work has been honoured with Directors receiving over sixty awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the New Zealand Institute of Architects and the Planning Institute of Australia, as well as awards from specialist industry sectors. The work of eminent Architectus directors is widely published and exhibited internationally.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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