Melbourne-based Adam Markowitz

is an award-winning designer and maker of furniture and lighting, as well as a practising architect. He has trained in Tasmania and Denmark, and at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine, USA. Since 2015 he has operated his independent design studio, Markowitzdesign, delivering residential architectural projects, small batch production furniture and custom commissions. Markowitz has been co-teaching the Exlab experimental making programme for the last four years at the University of Melbourne, and is the current vice president of the Victorian Woodworkers Association.