Simone Koch<br />ARCHITECTUS

Simone Koch
Architectus

Unit 9, 651 Victoria Street
Abbotsford VIC 3067

www.architectus.com.au

Since Simone Koch's first job in an architectural firm ten years ago, she has lectured part time at RMIT and Melbourne University, worked with Tom Kovac, sat on the RAIA Awards Sub-Committee and been involved in a number of exciting and award-winning projects. Having received the RAIA Victoria Architecture Award in 2002 and the Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award the following year with Kerstin Thomson Architects, she is currently working with the emerging and highly acclaimed firm Architectus.

Why did you decide to become an architect?
A passing thought that stuck.

What keeps you motivated and inspired?
Bullishness.

What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?
In architecture a particular house on the outskirts of Geelong, done in my time at KTA. A shadowy timber house that rests along an escarpment and absorbs its surrounds.

In your opinion what personal qualities make a good architect?
Wisdom, patience and the ability to observe and interpret.

What is the future for our inner cities?
Madness with eddies.

What elements and concerns do you deem most important in your work?
Quietness and discretion coupled with the amplification of a quality that might exist outside of the work. A limited palette of materials working around varying conditions of light or patterns
of use...

What is your generation's legacy to the built environment?
Dynamic faades.

Which Australian building excites you the most?
The Beulah Hospital by Peter McIntyre.

Book, film, song?
Have just read and loved Chronicles Volume One, Bob Dylan; Jules and Jim, Franois Truffaut, again and again; In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wai; Jet Pilot, Bob Dylan.

If you weren't an architect what would you be?
Chef, baker, scientist, mechanic, mathematician...maybe a gardener.

Happiness is...
Just that.