amber lush
BArch (hons) BDes (arch)

Amber is registered architect interested in community driven design and the social value of architecture. Amber has worked as a volunteer on sustainable income-generating community projects in Kenya and spent time in informal settlements in Nairobi carrying out research for her honours paper on making good design available to everyone. She established the not-for-profit organisation bricks + cartwheels, that works to provide an opportunity for people and communities to directly influence their own built environment, with a focus on community participation and capacity building. Bricks + cartwheels is currently working with the community of Katolo, Kenya to design and build a secondary school for girls, due to commence construction in 2009.