Educator / Managing Director

Teresa Serrao is a registered architect having studied at the University of Technology, Sydney. During her career she has worked with builders, architects and interior designers as well as running her own practice for the past 20 years. She has worked on a range of projects from bespoke housing, multi storey commercial work, institutional buildings, and medium and high density housing.

She started teaching about seven years ago, first interior design and then building design and construction management at a variety of colleges and universities, offering courses both online and in the classroom. Teresa is an active member in both the architecture and building design communities.

Educator / Training Manager

Vanessa Couzens is both a building designer and Interior Designer. She has qualifications in architecture and training and assessing, and over 15 years of experience working in architecture and interior design practices, both in Australia and the UK.

For over seven years she has mentored the next generation of building designers as an educator and training manager in both online and face-to-face design education. Over the past nine years Vanessa has been an active volunteer for the not for profit educational organisation the Australian Architecture Association,  promoting contemporary Australian design to the general public, as an architectural tour guide, volunteer trainer and editor and writer for the Association’s monthly e-publication ‘All About Architecture’. For the past five years she has served on the Australian Architecture Association’s management committee.