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Introducing Stuart Wilson. “We have developed the Metwood product to a very high standard; now we’re expanding" “If you have an aluminium system you would like to specify through any cladding company, any louvre company, or any panel company and you’d like it coated with Metwood, chances are that supplier is already a client of ours.” Metwood is a sublimated finish that enables Powder Coating Group to make aluminium profiles look like natural wood. Stuart says the business has been steadily improving Metwood’s credentials and its reach into the New Zealand building market over the last few years. “Our clients expressed to us that they were very satisfied with the 25-year warranty on the underlying powder coating and that they’d like similar assurances on the Metwood finish. We went back to our supplier in Italy, and they were able to provide a 10-year warranty on the majority of our patterns. This gives our clients added assurance that the product and the finish are going to last.” The product has also been BRANZ-certified with a Class A external and Group Number 1 S internal fire rating, Stuart says. “Essentially, because Metwood is a thin coating, it won’t alter the fire rating performance of an aluminium system while still allowing you to bring a wooden look to the boundary line, at height, or into an internal fitout. When you are making a wood-finish product and competing with wooden products, fire rating becomes an important question that people often ask. Our clients can now use Metwood with increased confidence and achieve a wooden look in places where they might otherwise have some fire rating challenges.” Read more at The Delve: https://lnkd.in/gg2XcQDp #metwood #teulo #thedelve #aluminium

One of our absolute favourite Teulo Talkers ARCHITECTURE IS MORE THAN WHAT YOU DO, IT'S WHO YOU ARE Meet Alvin Huang, AIA, NOMA Principal at Synthesis Design + Architecture “I realised that architecture was what I really wanted to do, but I went back to grad school to figure out how I wanted to do it.” In what would prove to be his biggest blessing in disguise, Alvin didn’t get into his first choice of graduate school - Harvard. Instead, he moved to London to study a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Design Research Laboratory. “I thought it would be for 16 months, but it turned into nine years. London attracts the best, the brightest and the bravest. You’re either the best at what you do, or you’re brave enough not to care. That city is thriving with creative energy, from people all over the world.” One of the best, brightest and bravest people was none other than Zaha Hadid, whom Alvin had the fortune of working with for ‘three human years,’ which equated to seven years’ worth of recorded hours on his timesheets. “Zaha was a huge inspiration, working for her was a completely life-changing experience. I absolutely believe things happen for a reason. During my time in London I picked up on different disciplinary and intellectual aspects of architecture that I could carry forward as a different practitioner to the one I was prior.” Read more at The Delve: https://lnkd.in/gPTAU-Ma #synthesisdesignandarchitecture #thedelve #teulo #design #architecture #create

Happy New Year to all of our Teulo community. Thank you 🤩 We really appreciate you and your continued support of providing education for architects, designers and construction professionals. Have a wonderful New Years and Stay Classy 🎉 See you in 2025 🚀 Photo credit: PHOTOGRAPHY BY SLIM AARONS A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986, centre, standing), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo (second from right).

“I SHAPE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE PERCEPTION OF INVISIBLE” Meet Dana Cupkova, now a Professor at the incredible Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture. Dana Cupkova can’t pinpoint the exact moment she knew she wanted to be an architect, but instead describes ‘falling into it, because it was the only thing that made sense’. “My father might have had a different interpretation though,” concedes the founding director and design principal of EPIPHYTE Lab. “Apparently he knew I was destined for it when I was five years old.” The daughter of an engineer and a microbiologist, Dana’s interdisciplinary trajectory has tracings of her early life. EPIPHYTE Lab is a collaborative design and research practice that operates between art and science. It engages the built environment at the intersection of perception, aesthetics and ecology. Named after a non-parasitic plant that feeds off of biological waste, its mission lies in the design of architectures that operate like epiphytes; informed by coupling thermodynamic behavior with geometry, using computationally-driven and material-conscious processes. “I used to go to my mother’s lab and watch her microbial cultures grow. In a lot of ways, EPIPHYTE operates more like a lab for design experiments,” Dana muses. Read more here at Teulo's The Delve: https://lnkd.in/gU9vm5Tk #thedelve #danacupcova #teulotalks #design #architecture #process #materials

Some holiday reading, an interview with the beautiful human Michele Saee from SAEE Studio Even through a slightly pixelated Skype screen - and after some technical difficulties - Michele Saee’s contemplative, easing presence is immediate. He’s sitting against an intellectual but un-intimidating backdrop, aesthetically fit for a self-confessed ‘traditionalist of some form’. This architect is every bit the humble and dedicated visionary who gives his profession the artistic credibility it deserves. Once we get both cameras working, Michele tells me: “It’s much better to have a live conversation with a person when I can see them, somewhat face-to-face”. This inherent appetite for connection - to not only people but places, spaces and time - has steered every step of Michele’s creatively compelled journey. And what a journey it’s been. “I’m one of those hardcore architectural groupies,” he laughs when reflecting on what ignited his intrinsic architectural flame. Born in Tehran in 1956, Michele’s father was a policeman and his mother an entrepreneurial spirit, who ‘loved travelling, trying different things and testing her own abilities’. They were both supportive of whatever he wanted to do, giving Michele “every opportunity, and it allowed (him) to do something very different.” Perhaps his mother’s yearning for the new, whether inherited or learned, shaped Michele’s perception of and pull to the craft itself. As his bio puts it: ‘Architecture reflects our needs, desires and ability to improve the quality of our relationships with creativity and adventure’. Certainly, it shaped his educational influences, which include a stint of schooling in the UK, a Master of Art in Architecture in Florence and a post-grad degree in Technical Urban Planning in Milan - all before moving to Los Angeles, where he would start his own firm, teach at multiple schools of architecture and become a faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC). Read more at The Delve: https://lnkd.in/gvMt_79B #thedelve #teulo #michelesaee #architecture #design #space #time

Merry Christmas 🎄 We hope everyone has a lovely well deserved break. We thank you all for your continued support and passion for providing education to the architectural and design community in 2024 and we have loved collaborating with you 🖤 Stay safe, hug your loved ones and wear sunscreen (especially if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere!) Lots of love Team Teulo #merrychristmas #teamteulo #learning #education #cpdonline

Big news for NZ Registered Architects! New Zealand Registered Architects Board Teulo is kicking off 2025 with a game-changing innovation: our NZRAB API integration! 🎉 👉 Seamlessly accrue CPD points in real-time.
👉 Say goodbye to manual uploads.
👉 Stay focused on what you do best—designing the future. As a first-of-its-kind feature, this is just the beginning of how Teulo is making CPD learning effortless and accessible. Ready to elevate your professional growth? Let’s make 2025 your best year yet! Read all about it here: https://lnkd.in/gDBvngzn Thank you to our friends New Zealand Registered Architects Board for embracing collaboration and understanding that when we all work together we can make a real difference. Merry Christmas 🎄 #teulo #cpd #nzrab #api #collaboration

One thing we love about Teulo is the incredible humans we get to meet along the way. We had the pleasure of interviewing Jenny E Sabin. Jenny Sabin isn’t a big fan of the word style. For the Cornell Professor, Principal Investigator of Sabin Lab and Principal at Jenny Sabin Studio, it’s an understandable reluctance. As an architect, designer, artist, researcher and educator investigating the intersections between art, science, biology and mathematics - trying to fit in one box is a little limiting. “I identify not necessarily with a style but with a way of thinking and working. One that is materially-directed and looking to nature not to simply mimic the shape or form, but to try and understand the processes and contribute to the design and making of form in context. Understanding the dynamics between environment and form gives rise to pretty amazing outputs.” Jenny’s work can certainly attest to that. Read more here at The Delve: https://lnkd.in/dWHUqtwN #thedelve #architecture #design #education #building #construction

Meet Judith Taylor Acting CEO New Zealand Registered Architects Board. “We are working collaboratively across the sector to support highly skilled building professionals operating within a future-focused industry,” says Judith Taylor, Acting Chief Executive of the New Zealand Registered Architects Board (NZRAB). With more than three decades of industry experience to draw from, Judith is bringing a wealth of knowledge to her new role. “I’ve been a registered architect for 38 years and have practised in Wellington, London and Auckland,” she says. “Until recently, I was the president of the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA); I started as Acting CE at NZRAB in July of 2024. When I saw this opportunity come up, it felt like an invitation to return to Wellington and my tribe.” Judith’s first few months in the role have been very busy, with a number of foundational changes on the horizon for NZRAB. “The Registered Architects Act [under which NZRAB was established] is currently under review. We’re assessing the competencies used to review the initial and ongoing registration of architects and looking at a digital transformation to offer better services to all of our stakeholders.” The goal is to push the industry forward with competencies and tools that accurately reflect the changing needs of Aotearoa, she says. “We are working with partners to demonstrate more widely the different pathways into architecture and to improve our communications with industry professionals.” Read more at The Delve: https://lnkd.in/gJFkbXPX #collaboration #stronger #architecture #passion #design #nzrab #teulo

Mexican-born, Mexico-based Gabriela Carrillo is an Architect and partner at practice Taller Architectura. She graduated from Faculty of National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).Gabriela has presented lectures and has led workshops at universities in Mexico, the United States, and South America. Her work has been published nationally and internationally. Gabriela’s designs involve sensitivity to context and environment, combining an adequate selection of materials from the regions where the creations are established, she explains the reason for this and the impact that it has. Gabriela’s project Courts of Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, she took great care in trying to create a space that incorporated materials and light design to create messages and atmosphere that impact the way people communicate within these spaces. The Courts of Pátzcuaro in Michoacán saw Gabriela win the 2017 International Women in Architecture Award, the highest international recognition for women in architecture. Gabriela tells us about the concept behind the design and the build process. Gabriela delves into other projects have really shaped her professional career and what she loved about them. We talk about some of the materialisations, themes and processes that Gabriela is exploring in her work. Listen and find out more only on Teulo: https://lnkd.in/gYFecuY7 #teulopods #cpdonline #podcasts #design #architecture