Juror: Nick Tobias

Tobias Partners (NSW)

Nick Tobias graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from the University of NSW, in 2000. Mentored by Sydney School veteran NevilleGruzman, whilst studying Nick worked in a series of high-profile architecture and interior design practices. In 1999, a year before graduating at the age of 22, he established his own practice, in Sydney.

As the principal and director of Tobias Partners, Nick champions a Modernist aesthetic, refined and defined over the years to encompass a sympathy for luxurious materials, clean lines and impeccable finishes. He combines a rigorous analysis of place (environmental social and cultural) with a reflective understanding of individual client/end use. As a result, Tobias Partners has a reputation for clearly resolved, bespoke residential projects, although it has also produced commercial, retail, and hospitality interiors of note, at a broad range of scales and budgets.
 
Their diverse portfolio also includes a sustainable farming project in New Zealand, a number of adaptive re-use and refurbishment projects, as well as luxury yachts. Currently, Tobias Partners is developing a low-cost housing system with an Australian construction company, due to launch in 2012.

Nick Tobias has contributed to the architectural profession as a judge and speaker at a number of academic and professional symposia (the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, Belle House of the Year Award  and a guest speaker at the Australian Institute of Architects - Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra (NGA). He has been a guest assessor at the University of New South Wales and University of Canberra architecture faculties, and a supporter and fund-raising committee member for charitable and artistic associations. He is a Committee member of the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art’s Young Ambassador Program. In 2011, Nick acted as a judge on Channel 9’s Top Design program, with the goal of taking a professional architectural perspective to a mass audience.