Renowned for his natural rapport with clients, builders and consultants, Andrew’s early professional schooling was with UK practice Purcell, where he worked on the ambitious Sammy Ofer Wing of the National Maritime Museum.

When Andrew joined BIJL in 2012, he put this large-team project experience and an astute awareness for the importance of detail to fully realised and expressive buildings to work on our projects. Conversant with working across a range of typologies and scales, Andrew is equally at home resolving the finer aspects of an interior detail as he is onsite championing client needs and design integrity. An advocate for resilient architecture, Andrew’s approach is always people first.

For Vanessa, great design is the natural outworking of a fulsome and enjoyable process realised through a close working relationship with the client. By taking this partnering approach, Vanessa's approach is to emphasise the importance of good design, regardless of project scale, type or budget. In turn, her focus is always on realising the client's brief, underpinned by a desire to achieve human comfort, longevity, and a strong aesthetic sensibility.

Having made significant contributions to key residential projects during her previous eight year stint with BIJL and Liquid Architecture, in 2018 Vanessa moved into senior roles with Calder Flower and then CK Design International. While working on these larger scale projects, Vanessa diversified her experience across the commercial, aged care, public and institutional sectors. Since returning to BIJL in 2021, Vanessa has leveraged her robust industry knowledge and broadened experience to benefit all of our clients and their projects.

Rachael is naturally curious and methodical, knowing that great design comes through great process. A nimble thinker, her capacity to bring concepts to life through the small details and big ideas alike has drawn out new potential design avenues for BIJL.

Prior to joining BIJL, she undertook an instrumental six-month intensive design studio in Denmark, and worked at large practices HASSELL and Fitzpatrick + Partners, honing her instincts for successful projects of any size. She provides intelligent, creative insights across all phases of the architectural process to keep our processes and design outputs sharp.

Creating spaces that bring people together is something that gets Joanne out of bed every day. A collaborative team player, at BIJL she channels her energies into designs that will last the distance and bring a true sense of joy.

Since commencing her working life in Newcastle, Joanne has worked across practice scales and project locations, ranging from small practices on Sydney’s North Shore through to FJMT (Canberra), and with UK experience notched up at Benoy and RMJM. Joanne enjoys seeing a project flourish from the seed of an idea into the fully realised physical building, while walking alongside the client every step of the way.

Bradley is a natural maker - from buildings to models and furniture, he enjoys exploring how the act of making helps to refine design ideas and their final expression. With this eye for detail and construction, Bradley brings a keen interest in residential design and the granular approach so necessary to producing successful single dwelling projects.

Previous work experience for Bradley includes a two year stint at Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn (DJAS) in Canberra, as well as tutoring in the School of Architecture at UNSW. Adept in both the analogue and digital worlds, Bradley's contributions neatly dovetail with BIJL's design and typology interests and our fondness for being future-facing.

A self-dubbed ‘extra-extrovert’, Kurt is nonetheless a reflective and thoughtful designer interested in how design influences the way we live, and vice versa. As a result, Kurt likes to ask questions because he believes that challenging assumptions and norms helps to find ‘the way in’ to a project, thereby making the architectural process compelling, empathic and meaningful for the client and user.

Kurt commenced with BIJL in mid-2021, having previously worked for regional practice CKDS on both large-scale apartment buildings and bespoke single dwellings. These experiences fostered Kurt’s commitment to residential design, most recently showcased in his highly regarded graduation project, a contemporary housing and adaptive reuse development for Ultimo.

With a background in academic research and management consultancy, Piers brings a broad range of interests and skills to the role of Studio Manager. His responsibilities span the business, administrative, and IT needs of the practice, providing support to the entire team. Piers is also the practice Quality and Compliance Manager, enabling BIJL to maintain its ISO accreditations to the benefit of our clients and projects.

When not working at BIJL, Piers is busy cleaning records and running his online vinyl store Rocky Road Records.