Ka Wai Yeung & David Kaunitz

David Kaunitz and Ka Wai Yeung are a wife-husband team focused on facilitating high quality architecture in some of the most disadvantaged communities and First Nations People in Australian and Asia – Pacific. Underlying this is a deep commitment to participatory design and local construction. Kaunitz Yeung Architecture has created a new paradigm that shows high quality, international award-winning architecture is not a matter of cost, but of commitment. They have a significant body of award-winning architecture and have worked in more than 40 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island communities, 200 Pacific Island communities as well as in Asia. This includes prestigious awards such as the UIA Vassilis Sgoutas Prize, the highest architectural award for working with underprivileged communities. Each project is co-designed in an authentic partnership with communities, NGOs, and Government Agencies. They have developed methods of engagement that enables all sections of the community to be heard and involved. By involving, the architecture is imbued with culture, integrated with place and reflective of the community’s history, hopes and aspirations.