B. Architecture – Hons / B.Business

Lachlan is a Director of Nielsen Jenkins, after running his own awarded and published architecture studio Nielsen Workshop for 7 years prior. His key experience working on cultural buildings came whilst working in Dublin for O’Donnell and Tuomey on the Belfast Lyric Theatre from 2008-2009 where he worked on the design and documentation of the interior of the main concert hall. Through experience building some of his own projects (such as Mt Tamborine House & East Brisbane House) and those of former employers, he has been able to retrospectively achieve his Queensland Building License and as such brings an in-depth understanding of the assembly and crafting of buildings. He is also a furniture maker and this immense knowledge of materials and the craft of their assembly brings Lachlan a unique ability to design and document buildings with clarity, efficiency and elegance.

B.Architecture - Hons

Morgan is a Director of Nielsen Jenkins, after running his own awarded and published architecture studio Morgan Jenkins Architecture for 6 years prior. In the early stages of his own practice, Morgan explored this intersection between the built form, landscape, community and the city by being Co-creator and Creative Director of The End of the Line Festival, a free community festival in Woolloongabba, Brisbane which hosted 4000-10000 people annually between 2014-2019. Morgan travelled through London, Barcelona and Prague as part of the Dulux Study Tour in 2017 and was moved by the way some large practices had brought other design disciplines under their own studio roof. Since then, Nielsen Jenkins has employed landscape designers and plays an active role in the design, documentation and installation of landscape elements within their projects to achieve an integrated design outcome that gives equal priority to both the built and unbuilt components of site.

Stephen Varady is an innovative and respected Australian architect, designer, writer and educator. Born in Sydney, he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree with honours from the University of New South Wales in 1987, and a Masters of Architecture degree from RMIT University in Melbourne in 2002. He is a registered architect in NSW and a member of the Australian Institute of Architects and was appointed Creative Director of 2006 RAIA National Conference.

Stephen has been a lecturer and design teacher since 1985 in architecture and design schools at Sydney University, University of NSW, UTS, Newcastle University and at RMIT University in Melbourne, and has lectured extensively around the world. Stephen is also an architecture critic, writer and photographer, with writings published in Architecture Australia, Monument, ar, inside and the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia, as well as AD and World Architecture in the UK.

Stephen has been principal of Stephen Varady Architecture since 1987.

Between 2008 and 2013 he also worked with Kann Finch, first in the UAE and then in Sydney as Senior Design Architect.

Stephen Varady is a practicing registered architect with over 30 years of experience, and is now also Director of Stephen Varady Associates, a practice for Architecture, Design, Consulting and Special Projects.

Stephen Varady has received a number of awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the Belle House of the Year Award, a number of Dulux Colour Awards including the 2006 Dulux Colour Award Grand Prix, and 2nd Prize in the NSW Government sponsored Circular Quay Urban Design Ideas Competition.

Stephen’s projects have been published in books and magazines in Australia, the UK, Germany, Hungary, Spain, South Korea, China and the USA. His work has been exhibited in a number of exhibitions including ‘Living the Modern_Australian Architecture’ at the DAZ in Berlin in 2007, and in the ‘Abundant’ exhibition in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008.

Stephen Varady also has success as a competition advisor, registrar and organiser, having prepared and run the Frankston Station Design Competition for the Victorian Government, the Green Square Aquatic Centre Competition and the Green Square Library & Plaza Competition for the City of Sydney, and the Wagga Wagga Civic Centre Competition for Wagga Wagga City Council.