Clinton Cole

Clinton Cole has spent 25+ years building things and a career dismantling orthodox thinking.
As one of Australia’s only architect-builders, he believes passionately that separating designing from making serves no one – clients, architects, or the planet. At his firm CplusC, he’s proven the power of this insight over and over again with a slew of award-winning, boundary-pushing homes like Holocene House, Australia’s first residence to earn global Active House Certification.
As an evangelist for regenerative design, he’s sick of greenwashing dressed up as sustainability. He’s pushing Australian architecture toward something more honest: homes and buildings that are climate-aware, skilfully crafted, and a force for good. Not a trend. As a standard.

He’s not here to validate where the industry is. He’s here to argue about where it needs to go.