Stuart Vokes

Stuart is an architect and co-founder of Vokes and Peters, based in Kurilpa, Brisbane.

In 2015 Stuart and long-time collaborator Aaron Peters established Vokes and Peters to focus on projects that respond to prevailing settings, cultural narratives, human occupation and the presence of nature. Vokes and Peters is recognised for its private houses and sustained research into suburban Brisbane, however the practice also works across a range of cultural and commercial projects, including social housing and heritage conservation, furniture and teaching.

Together with Aaron, Stuart is a masters design studio unit coordinator at University of Queensland, and since 2011 Vokes and Peters have curated and hosted an annual talk series titled Garden Variety. The line-up of past speakers includes artists, urban designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, authors, artisans, tailors, architects, exhibition designers, publishers and brand advisors.

Stuart has served as a juror on the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards program, Houses Awards, Think Brick Awards, Deputy Premier’s inaugural Awards for Urban Design (now Australian Urban Design Awards) and local ambassador for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ International Awards. Stuart is also a standing member of the BCC Independent Design Advisory Panel and the Abedian School of Architecture Advisory Board.

Migrations from Memory, published by Canalside Press in 2023, is a collection of essays by Stuart Vokes and Aaron Peters reflecting upon twenty years of collaboration. Their book is a paean to Brisbane, its building traditions and cultural customs.