a brief word from michael.
Cox Rayner Architects is now in our fifteenth year (we think) of sponsoring the UQ Architecture Graduate Exhibition – this year entitled CROP’15, and the Cox Rayner-Peter Hale Prize. The prize of course includes an offer of employment to the top UQ graduate. This has been of incredible benefit to our practice over the years, with graduates like Casey Vallance, Christina Cho, Jack Dodgson and Amy Learmonth being critical to our design evolution. Casey became a director five years ago and is one of our main design leaders. He was the project architect for the University of Queensland Oral Health Centre at Herston which won a World Architecture Festival Award last week. The UQ exhibition is the culmination we know of much hard work and inspired learning from your university years. For many of you, it precedes life in the ‘real world’ where supposedly the design freedom you have enjoyed will cease. In truth, that isn’t the case. I think never has the world wanted more for new ways of imagining typologies and experiences as now. I hope you all find a path or practice in architecture which allows your design thinking to be nourished and to flourish.
michael rayner AM
Director, Cox-Rayner Architects Adjunct Professor in Architecture, University of Queensland