A senior architect at Hassell, Kiara Carroll argues that architects should evolve from being technical resolvers to becoming influential leaders.
ADR talks to the member of Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 cohort for 2025/2026 about sustainability and the responsibility of architects.
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@marlo__lyda is a Sydney-based designer and a multidisciplinary practitioner focused on material experimentation.
As a member of Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 for 2025/2026, Marlo talks about the need for community, her insights on sustainability and how she uses overlooked materials.
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Having recently joined Grimshaw, following a stint at AJC Architects, Simone Carmody continues to be driven by her passion for the environment, for promoting regenerative and sustainable design, and for designing spaces that connect people, place and the planet.
Selected for ADR's 30UNDER30 cohort for 2025/26, Simone talks to us about the importance of advocacy in her role.
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A Sydney-based architect at Grimshaw, Awkar Ruel’s projects focus on spatial and human-centred design. As a member of Australian Design Review's 30UNDER30 cohort for 2025/2026, he contributes to forging connections between people and the environment they inhabit.
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📸 @jaimi_joy
Senior architect and urban designer at Brisbane City Council, Ben Hovav, studied in Milan and Delft, and founded a design research collective in Rotterdam before returning to Brisbane, where he also currently teaches at Queensland University of Technology.
As a member of the 2025/26 cohort for Australian Design Review's 30UNDER30, he's relishing the opportunity to find out what inspires the rest of the group.
Read our Q+A with him on ADR – link in bio.
Meet 30UNDER30's Candyce Huntsman, who runs her own practice, AKI Design and has already ticked off one goal on her career list by being featured in Vogue Living,
"Building and growing my business has also been a defining highlight. While challenging, the process of scaling, learning and evolving has been deeply rewarding and continues to shape me as a designer and business owner," she says.
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📸 Griffin Simm
This week, we get to know 30UNDER30's Jack Crowe, whose work you might have encountered on this platform before. An 'innovator of the built world' within this year's cohort, Crowe is the videographer and social media manager at Melbourne-based firm @dko_architecture .
"My pathway into the industry wasn’t traditional. It began in graphic design and gradually evolved into videography and social media, where I found my strength in visual storytelling," he says.
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Next up among 30UNDER30's talented cohort is Angela Liang, an architecture graduate working at @rothelowman . Through residential projects, Liang uses drawing as an influential problem-solving design method and a framework for collaboration.
"I am incredibly excited to be recognised this early in my career," she says. "I see this as a perfect opportunity for me to reflect on what I’ve been putting my time and energy into for the past two years."
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Milica Božić is a researcher and curator originally from Belgrade, Serbia. Her curatorial practice (@heritagencounters ) explores experimental encounters with heritage through architectural exhibitions and events.
Božić says she hopes to bring a sense of criticality, openness, and a genuine interest in dialogue and co-creation to the 30UNDER30 program.
"The tightening of intellectual, political and geographic freedoms globally shapes who has access to creative spaces and whose stories are heard," she says. "This is highly concerning to me. I think designers need to keep actively creating space for critical voices more than ever."
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30UNDER30's Morgan Wolpers is a Sydney-based interior designer at Lawless & Meyerson. She took a non-traditional pathway into the profession, which ultimately shaped her interdisciplinary approach.
"Before I’d ever formally studied, I was being thrown into environments where every material choice, every spatial decision, every object placement carried real weight – and I found I had a natural instinct for it," she says. "What struck me most was how consistent that instinct was across disciplines; whether it was a film set or an interior, the underlying question was always the same – how does this make someone feel?"
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30UNDER30's Isabella White studied architecture and worked in graduate positions before discovering her skills were needed elsewhere. She has since segued into communications roles – most recently as digital content lead at @architectusau – and amassed tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram (@izziewhitecreative ), where she creates content under the moniker of ‘architecture’s biggest advocate’, providing the public with tools to ask for better design outcomes.
"I knew I was making content and media that was outside of the ‘normally’ accepted ways our industry communicates," White says. "The 30UNDER30 platform offered an industry-leading arena to get these ideas out into our profession and get them vetted by professionals. I really saw it as one-shot ticket to make sure these ideas were taken seriously by our industry!"
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