Ms Julie Einzenberg
University of Melbourne Alumna

The Koning Eizenberg practice has become well known for small buildings of everyday living including affordable housing, community centres, recreations centres, schools, custom homes, hotels, stores and work places. KEA has recently won two national competitions, one for a Children's Museum and another for a school in Chicago.

Many of the buildings have won multiple awards and have been published in architectural and general interest publications in the U.S. and abroad. The influence of Koning Eizenberg's approach to design can also be measured by the numerous invited speaking engagements and teaching appointments at Universities around the world.

Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg have refocused architects' attention on the value and design potential of socially responsible projects by demonstrating architectural excellence in the design of many tight budget affordable housing projects and community buildings. In turn their ability to achieve design excellence without pretension in other building types grew from this groundbreaking work. Their buildings might best be described as brilliantly sensible. They are comfortable environments where suggestion rather than statement is used to engage the viewer or user of the building. In Koning Eizenberg's buildings one is encouraged to discover space and architecture for oneself guided by compositional cues, landscapes strategies, special sequence and scale change. The result is innovative architecture with a rare kind of humanism.

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