Breakspear Architects

Breakspear Architects is an ideas-driven office that offers services in architecture, interiors, landscape, urban design and masterplanning. The practice embraces the collaborative nature of design to produce work with material and intellectual coherence. We revel in both the practical and abstract sides of architecture by thinking strategically with our clients about social, environmental, technological, economic and spatial issues whilst also developing construction details that optimise standard and innovative fabrication processes. The combination of our generalist approach with a sensitive awareness of individual client aspirations and site conditions is the key to finding unexpected ideas and excellent solutions for any project. We seek complexity not from architecture itself, but from the reciprocal relationships that emerge when architectural fundamentals are attuned to the surrounds in a rich ecology of life. The ‘bush’ as Australia’s soul is an alluring myth that we intend to reconcile with the reality of a highly urbanised society by asserting architectural principles of scale, proportion, enclosure, order and materiality.