John Wilkin (Practice Director) was born in Sydney, and graduated with Honours from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1997. He worked as an undergraduate architect for the firm Edwards Madigan Torzillo Briggs between 1989 and 1992. Since that time, he has worked with Angelo Candalepas in his capacity as, firstly, a recent graduate, and from 2000 as an Associate. John was appointed as a Practice Director in 2008.

John’s work includes the role of Project Architect/Director on the construction documentation of significant urban projects of the practice including Castlereagh Street Offices, Pindari and in procuring complex Development Applications under Part 3a such as the Development Application for 450 dwellings at Little Bay and 800 dwellings at Bateman’s Bay, in NSW.

He has experience in the delivery of complex construction documentation and design documentation of Projects at Candalepas Associates. He has completed work in his own right which has been published such as his own house which was recently published (2008) in Architecture Review and for which he won a Merit Award in Architecture jointly with his architect wife Susanne Pini.