Architecture is both the structural and the symbolic representations of human activity. It is the theatre of being itself. If pleasure of living is the purpose of creating beautiful spaces then it will be thus only by nature's grace. With such truisms replicated as ornaments on a building's wall, we would hope that the feelings are pleased, from every point of view.

We are interested in how buildings ought to be assembled but much more, we are interested in the qualities of living that the buildings will trace and imbue. In the much needed restoration of civic order, there is much innate understanding to recognise and recover by builders and users alike.

At Paik Associates we practice architecture as art and manage the programme designed to realise our clients' requests.

We started in 1988, in Adelaide, South Australia, then we've been in Italy since 1994.

According to John Keats:

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
 Truth is beauty and beauty truth."