An urban-country collaboration Mackenzie Pronk × Fisher Desiqn

摘要

Sitting at the drawing board in 2005, our Sydney practice of Mackenzie Pronk was about one year old. We were busy over-servicing our very local residential clients, we had a small baby in the office and not enough work. Our friends Anna and Christian from Fisher Design and Architecture had relocated to the Mid North Coast some years earlier. We had worked together at Tonkin Zulaikha Greer in the past; catch ups were brief and focused on some noisy Sydney watering hole. Out of the blue Christian emailed us a brief - an EOI followed by a limited competition for National Parks - and it was due in a week. Without blinking or thinking we were working together again, exchanging emails of sketches, text and drawing files. We quickly devised a system of working together including operating the other's mouse from 500 kms away during Skype calls. It felt like the remote working future had arrived.