NICHOLAS RUSSO

[Founding Director]
[Director of Project Realisation]

[Architect ARBV]

Bachelor of Architecture
RMIT University 2007

Nick’s role in the studio is director of project realisation
- ‘the guy who works closely with builders & related teams to get the projects built on site’

Nick’s brings his meticulous attention to detail & vast experience in contact administration processes to all projects in the studio.

Nicholas Russo was born in 1983 in Melbourne, Australia and educated at the Royal Melbourne institute of Technology [RMIT] in Melbourne.

After completing University, Nick worked for his father in his multi-disciplinary design and sculpture studio. This led Nick to gain valuable experience and understanding in the disciplines of making and detailing across a diverse range of materials and scales. Exposure to the work of sculptors Anthony Pryor and Inge King was also influential at this time.

Nick continues to experiment with materiality through the design and making of furniture and other objects through ancillary studio LTNK.

BRAD WRAY

[Founding Director]
[Design & Creative Director]

[Architect ARBV]

Bachelor of Architecture [First Class Honours]
RMIT University 2007

Brad’s role in the studio is the design & creative director - working across all projects.

Brad Wray was born in 1983 in Melbourne, Australia and educated between the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology [RMIT] in Melbourne and the Accademia Di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland/ Italy.

Brad`s international studies at the Accademia Di Mendrisio with Portuguese Architects - Aires Mateus, Goncarlo Byrne and exposure to the Swiss masters Peter Zumthor & Valerio Olgiati was integral to Brad`s foundational years prior to returning and working in Melbourne for John Wardle Architects.

Brad also founded furniture design workshop - Brad Wray Workshop in 2013 and has been widely published for a series of crafted concrete and timber pieces.

Brad has been guest design critic at a variety of Melbourne Architecture Institutions.

Brad has more recently been invited to be on the judging panel for the 2020 Dezeen awards in London.

JAX LAM

[Senior Associate]
[Architect ARBV]

Master of Architecture
Melbourne University 2014

Jax Completed a diploma in interior design in Singapore and worked for a year in 2010 before pursuing architecture in Australia in 2011.

In 2012, JAX completed her Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Tasmania, and moved to Melbourne where she completed her Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne.