About
Equity Office is an award winning research-led architectural practice creating projects that shape our built and socio-spatial environments. EO’s portfolio includes culturally, socially, economically and environmentally responsive works, including community engagement strategies, architecture, exhibitions and events. Our projects are always supported by action research, education, public discourse and writing, to ensure high social impact. Always at the heart of our projects is advocacy for positive social change and equity, achieved through diverse, often “bottom-up” methods.
Our work is cross-disciplinary, involving a finely curated mix of traditional and non-traditional collaborators, depending on the right fit for the project.
Equity Office is Robert Lees and Director, Nikhila Madabhushi.
Awards and recognitions
People
Nikhila Madabhushi
Nikhila is an architect, researcher and educator. Her research-based practice foregrounds decolonising and participatory design methods for built and spatial
environments. Her work has received various awards and recognitions, enabling her to gain diverse knowledge(s) on the confluence of Country, disasters and place. She publishes, speaks and exhibits regularly on these themes, with her work aiming to build bridges between academic, disciplinary and public discourse. She is currently a Research Fellow at Monash Art Design and Architecture where she continues co-creating applied research with diverse communities across Australia, concurrent to practice.
Robert Lees
Robert Lees is an architectural graduate, working across practice, research and education who currently holds a Research Officer position in the Codesign for Placemaking lab at Monash University. His approach to architecture focuses on how participatory engagement can democratise architectural processes.
Lees’ projects to date have foregrounded disaster recovery and community development, including contributing to the Olkola Cultural Knowledge Centre in Cape York. His most recent work involved project design and documentation of the Wangun Amphitheatre cultural performance space.
