Since 1999, Kennedy Nolan has developed a reputation as a design-focused practice with a distinct approach to built form.

As practitioners, we’re dedicated to producing architecture that’s highly responsive to its context and forms a strong relationship with landscape. We pride ourselves on an innovative approach to public and residential projects. We deliver a highly responsive design sensitive to its context that incorporates sustainable design initiatives while achieving the requirements of our brief.

Our design ethos is informed by the optimistic tenets of modernism – rational, utilitarian and technologically empowered – and a positive view that the creation and arrangement of space can support and reinforce relationships – adding zest to life.

The practice also draws on the evocative power of form, colour, texture and light, as well as the resonance of shared memories, histories and landscapes.

Our approach to design draws on the handcrafted sculptural form of modernism, as evident in our projects’ highly individual nature, which transforms relationships between interior and exterior by utilising colour, light and texture.

As a practice, Kennedy Nolan is regularly recognised for design excellence through industry awards, extensive publication of our work, exhibitions, and ongoing involvement with the Architecture Schools and Institute of Architects.

Stephen Varady is an award winning, innovative and respected Australian architect, writer competition advisor and educator. He has designed projects in Australia and overseas, and run some of the most successful architecture competitions in Australia.

Stephen is an architecture writer, photographer and advocate for design excellence, with his writings published extensively in Australia and overseas. Stephen’s projects have also been published in Australia and overseas and included in exhibitions in Berlin in 2007 and the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008. Stephen has received a number of RAIA awards, the Dulux Colour Award Grand Prix and the Belle House of the Year Award. He was also Creative Director for the 2006 RAIA National Architecture Conference.

Stephen has been an inspiring and enthusiastic lecturer and tutor in architecture, interior design and professional practice since 1985 in architecture and design schools at Sydney University, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, University of Newcastle and RMIT, and has lectured extensively around the world. Stephen has also been the curator of the Australian and International Brickworks Architecture Speaker Series since 2015.