bricks + cartwheels

bricks + cartwheels is an Australian based charitable organisation established in 2006 that works to provide an opportunity for people and communities to directly influence their own built environment.  As architects, we seek to act as facilitators to empower and engage communities not normally served by good design.  Interdisciplinary partnerships will emerge from a community initiative to seek solutions to their own identified community issues. 

Together, we aspire to create built solutions that are capacity building and provide long term sustainability through a process of community participation.  bricks + cartwheels is passionate and highly driven to share knowledge through an exchange of ideas.  Good design needs to be made available to everyone.

The directors of bricks + cartwheels are avid travellers and passionate to learn from first hand observation, participation and experience.  Prior to forming bricks + cartwheels we have worked individually in Australia, Kenya, South Africa, Costa Rica, Europe and Bolivia both designing in architectural firms and as volunteers with local and international NGOs.

As young designers we aspire to create change on a local and global level.  bricks + cartwheels believes in the potential for young designers to play a critical role in the built environment and the improvement of peoples’ lives.

bricks + cartwheels

is currently working with the community of Katolo, Kenya to establish a local secondary school for girls.  We are committed to designing the new school, assisting with fundraising and will return to Kenya to assist the community with construction and project development.