Rebekah Vallance and Casey Vallance are architects with Cox Rayner Architects in Brisbane who share a growing passion for, and experimentation with architectural and object-based design. Following architectural study at UQ, Rebekah & Casey have spent the last ten years testing their own ideas on architecture’s role as a medium for human engagement and experience. Rebekah & Casey hold to the belief that one’s appreciation of space is not limited to one grand idea with the details irrelevant, but in the precise placement and detailing of every material and object within a space to make a coherent whole - the detail and feel of a custom door handle, seat or light fitting are just as vital design tools in the creation of architecture that moves you.

From earlier design work as students on a family residence, to the five year process of designing and constructing their own residence, an ongoing experimentation with object based design, and through their work at Cox Rayner Architects, Rebekah & Casey have begun to explore materials & detailing as instruments for human appreciation of architectural space.

While passionate about design, Rebekah & Casey strongly believe that architecture and design is to be enjoyed, from design conception through to the built experience - putting ideas into practice, testing ideas on paper and working that idea until it is realised in the built form, is the amazing privilege entrusted to designers of architectural space.

The challenge of creating architecture that goes beyond its functional brief to engage or ‘move’ people, can only be achieved through continuous testing and on-going construction. Through physically labouring together on the construction of their own residence, Rebekah & Casey are putting this belief into practice. Still at the beginning of their careers, Rebekah & Casey are aware that it will be their lifelong education to learn the art of architecture.