Anthony Clarke

Anthony Clarke is an Australian architect, educator, writer, and founding director of BLOXAS – A Practice for Empathic and Experimental Architecture.

BLOXAS’ approach is led by research, experimentation, curiosity, and care. These elements are inherent in their philosophy and drive their interrogative and empathetic response. Specialists from a variety of disciplines contribute to their curative understanding of individual and collective behavior, sensory perception, physiology, and phenomenology. BLOXAS investigate how people affect – and are at the effect of – their designs.

Anthony completed his PhD from Monash University (MADA) in 2023 titled; Architecture of Care – Using an Auto-Ethnographic Design Approach to Rearticulate Practice. This research argues that current techniques and representations of architectural practice can take on greater significance and generate a more meaningful societal and professional contribution if they are developed through a lens of care. This lens of care, however, requires a fundamental repositioning in the way architects and designers orientate themselves within each project. Anthony’s research argues that this adaptation requires a genuine and deeply considered recognition of personal attitudes, approaches, and ingrained presumptions – advocating for self-reflection as a valuable, more conscious, and explicit component in the design process.

Prior to establishing BLOXAS, Anthony worked in the offices of Shigeru Ban in Tokyo and Jean Nouvel in Paris, along with several leading architectural practices throughout Australia, including FJMT and Terroir.