TOBIAS PARTNERS | ARCHITECTS

SELECTED PROJECTS

Hopetoun House

Vaucluse Bay House

Drill Hall House

Haxstead Garden House

Deepwater House

Tongue n Groove Flagship

Wentworth House

Cooper Park House

Gardyne House

STUDIO

OUR VISION

To create unique, exquisite, authentic, timeless, fundamentally sustainable and carefully crafted buildings and interiors. Our goal is to create spaces and elements that nourish and uplift.

WHO DO WE SERVE

Clients with vision as big as ours – courageous, pioneering, adaptable, trusting, sensitive, passionate, financially capable, discerning and committed.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

As architects, we provide a personal service to anyone who comes into contact with the spaces we create.

Our creations are the end result of a rigorous process of analysis and refinement, in direct response to our client’s needs and their project’s context.

We find the coming together of craftsmanship and technology, the collision of the new and old worlds, classicalism and modernism, fascinating and inspiring.

The collaborative power of our team is key to achieving our vision.

As your architects, we help you get to where you want to be.

FOUNDING PRINCIPAL

NICK TOBIAS

"My role in the practice is to create and keep pushing our vision, and ensure everyone is along for the ride.
I ensure that the studio engages in the right balance between thinking big and honing exact solutions through a process of rigorous refinement."
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MANAGING PRINCIPAL

JOHN BARKER

“My role is to partner with our clients and other stakeholders, to explore their needs, perceptions, experiences, opportunities and dreams; to move them through the design and delivery processes, as an educator, facilitator, and creative force with a strong shared vision for the future. I’m here to drive the delivery of a unique built solution that value-adds to the clients’ and stakeholders’ daily lives, and is delivered on time and on budget.”

PROJECT PRINCIPALS

MATTHEW KRUSIN

"I believe Architecture is a big social responsibility; a great result is one that continually enhances peoples’ lives. Buildings, their interior and exterior spaces should work harmoniously with their surrounding environment and bring a sense of joy to the end user and to the society they sit within."

RICHARD PETERS

“The opportunity to design enables us to think about how things work. Everything should happen for a reason, if we start with this intention – anything is possible.”

JOHN RICHARDS

“Practicing architecture is just that, practicing - it involves constantly designing, testing, learning, designing again, and again and rigorously refining everything we do in this multi-faceted profession. the outcomes we produce are a product of this process and their quality reflect the depth and commitment to the journey.”

THE LEADERS

AMANDA CLARKE

"Architecture emerges quietly, through strikingly simple forms, rich, layered concepts, and the restrained beauty of detail and light. It finds a place in our homes, forms a backdrop to our memories, and steadily, intrinsically adds value to our life."

NATALIE CONDON

“Architecture is a physical response to place, needs and constraints. It is simultaneously influenced by and influencing of site, social context, user needs and behaviour. It’s a process of refinement, requiring time and thoughtfulness. It should be beautifully detailed, respectful, honest."

TIM HUNGERFORD

Architecture means having the privilege to shape spaces that people get to inhabit everyday. Shaping these spaces with the requirements of the user in mind should result in places that are comfortable and a pleasure to use and inhabit, while complimenting their physical and social surroundings. Good architecture serves its purpose and is beautiful at the same time.

JULIA CUMINES

“Less, But Better - Dieter Rams”

MARTINE MERRYLEES

"Interiors & Architecture cannot be separated - they are one and must be treated so and made beautiful. I serve this end with my passion for timeless, original and authentic design, with a focus on rigorous space planning and deeply thought through materiality."

CAMPBELL BAIRD

"For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament – Alain de Botton,The Architecture of Happiness."

NELSON VELAZQUEZ

"Architecture needs to be underpinned by a greater good that transcends a program, or mere composition; it must manifest itself with conviction in a language based on an aesthetic of ethics, approaching ideas from the periphery to be able to question the mainstream as an ever evolving praxis."

THE FACILITATORS

JULIE HAFIZE

Julie loves the outdoors and Interior space in Equal Measure, and has a keen eye for detail, which makes her an ideal fit for the Tobias Partners ethos.

SUE TAYLOR

“My goal is to be always approachable and to encourage a harmonious working environment. Honesty, Accuracy and Efficiency is my mantra. ‘Always Fair’ is my motto.”

PRESS & MEDIA

ACCOLADES

Deepwater House

Australian Institute of Architects – NSW Architecture Awards – Award for Residential Architecture - Houses (New), 2016
Australian Institute of Architects – National Architecture Awards - People's Choice Award, 2016
Houses Awards – Award for New House over 200m2, 2016
Waverley Design and Heritage Awards - Awards for Contemporary Design, 2016

Cooper Park House

Australian Institute of Architects - NSW Architecture Awards - Shortlist, 2015
Australian Institute of Architects - NSW Architecture Awards - Shortlist, 2014
Houses Awards – New House over 200m2 - Commendation, 2014