TEAM
We are a small personalised team working closely with our clients, advising and delivering.
Duncan Firth
Duncan began his architecture career working for ‘CPRW Fisher Architects’, then ‘Jones Architects’ in Auckland, New Zealand. He then ventured to Southeast Asia, enthusiastic to broaden his horizons, and worked for highly recognised architectural practices such as ‘DWP’, ‘SODA-THAI’ and, ‘HB DESIGN’, all based in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2011 he established Solarei Limited (NZ).
“I wanted to offer people modern, creative, architectural designs full of natural warmth, natural cooling, healthy comfortable living, and sunlight. The designs had to be based around some form of sustainable economy. How designs related to people and nature, worked with the environment, would naturally heat and cool, was always going to be how I approached architecture.”
Duncan Firth is the recipient of multiple sustainable architecture awards and has been featured in publications in Australia, China, New Zealand, Thailand, and The United States of America.
Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP): Design Two, BP121392
Participant, Superhome Movement (NZ)
Bachelor of Architecture (UNITEC, NZ)
Peter Grant
Peter Grant has worked in various sectors of the design and construction industry over the past thirty years. He started as a carpenter on skyscrapers in Wellington, then London before becoming a UK based architectural photographer, been published in ‘The Guardian’, ‘The Times’ and ‘The World of Interiors’.
Peter bought a yacht in the USA and sailed with his family back to New Zealand over three years qualifying as a Yacht Master on the way.
In 2016 he designed and built an eco-house which inspired him to go and get a 'Diploma in Architectural Technology'.
New Zealand Diploma in Architectural Technology (Open Polytechnic, NZ)
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
Regenesis Design Practitioner, Regenesis Group, USALRPS,
Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society
