Design Principles Pod

About Design Principles Pod

Architecture. A hot topic, a buzz word, a realm for the rich and famous, or the thing that your step uncle does? We will be unpacking the good, the bad and the downright reality of the architectural and construction industry. With insights from industry professionals and personal anecdotes from our three hosts Ben, Gerard and Sam, you will be given a look behind the closed pages of those fancy looking moleskins. Tune in and redline out.

Publisher

Sam Brown, Ben Sutherland and Gerard Dombroski

Category

arts · arts · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jan 2024

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Kaunitz Yeung: Designing With People

   Send us Fan Mail Designing with people sounds like a slogan until you hear what it demands in real life. Recorded at the NZIA Institute Conference, we sit down with Sydney-based co-founders David Kaunitz and Ka Wai Yeung, whose practice has built an international reputation for socially responsible, culturally sensitive architecture with remote communities across Australia and the Pacific. The big idea is deceptively simple: stop designing for communities and start designing with them, even w...

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Buzzers Ready!: In:situ Q&A

   Send us Fan Mail Two architects walk into a conference and we hand them a mic. What comes out is a fast, honest look at how New Zealand architects make decisions when nobody has time for fluff. We’re joined by Hamish McLachlan (Bowen and McLachlan Architects, also Architecture Zero Zero) and Rob Paulin (Paulin Studio), the two winners of our In:Situ ticket giveaway, for a quick-fire Q&A that turns into a surprisingly deep conversation about the design process and the built environment in ...

3. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Vā, Architecture Of Relationships: A Conversation with Dr. Albert L. Refiti

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are talking with Dr Albert Refiti, professor at AUT and co-director of the Vā Moana Research Centre, about Vā: the relational space that holds people, culture, hierarchy, and belonging together. Once you hear Vā described this way, Pacific architecture stops being a set of shapes and starts reading like a living map of relationships across time. We dig into why key forms and spatial rules have stayed so consistent for roughly 3,000 years across Polynesia, ...

Who has been a guest on Design Principles Pod

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Gerard Dombroski
• Rafe Maclean
• Joe Lyth
• Nina Boyd
• Raimana Jones

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

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Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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