VISION 37 — THE BLOCK 2016
Have you observed an improvement in the quality
of work contestants are producing across your
years of involvement?
I have, absolutely, and I think it’s a function of
the fact that the general renovation industry is
more educated. The industry is just getting better
educated. Viewers are better educated, the market
is generally better educated.
What have you learned from working and observing
the way all teams go about renovating the
apartments?
Years ago when in my formative years as an architect,
a mentor said ‘beware of the day when you say
you know everything because you won’t’. What the
contestants bring to the show is myriad experiences
and crazy ideas, and I mean a myriad of crazy ideas.
Not all are practical but I am learning as an architect
constantly and watching what people do and how
they approach a space. If I draw a door on the lefthand side of a wall someone is going to come in
and put it on the right hand side. Why? I don’t know.