Aileen Sage Architects

Profile

Aileen Sage is the alter ego of Isabelle Aileen Toland and Amelia Sage Holliday. Aileen Sage Architects was established as a collaborative design platform, often working directly with builders, fabricators, engineers, fellow designers, artists and craftspeople.

We provide architecture, interior and urban design services. As architects, we believe in the transformative potential of good design. Our projects are well researched, rigorous and sensitive to site and context. We aim for a timeless and durable architecture that is also playful and original in conception. We consider our approach as a form of storytelling – a way of framing a client’s brief and ambitions whilst at the same time responding to broader issues, be they social, environmental or material.

For us, architecture is not just visual. We also care about how things sound, smell and feel – the overall qualities of a space and the impact this might have on your experience of it at different times of the day, week or year.


Biography

Isabelle Aileen Toland

Isabelle graduated from the University of Sydney with Class 1 Honours (2003). Upon completing her studies Isabelle worked for award winning practices both in Sydney and overseas, including world renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban in his Paris office. Upon returning to Australia, she spent seven years with Neeson Murcutt Architects, acting as project coordinator on the Castlecrag House (AIA Robin Boyd Award 2011) and Prince Alfred Park upgrade (AIA Walter Burley Griffin Award, AIA NSW Lloyd Rees Award).

Isabelle has worked on a highly diverse range of projects from the inner city to the remote outback, and often crosses disciplines to create installations and art interventions with husband, artist Jasper Knight. She has taught architecture at both Sydney University, UNSW and UTS and design at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). Isabelle is a recipient of the Sydney University Medal, the RAIA Design Medal Commendation and the Byera Hadley Student Travelling Scholarship.

Amelia Sage Holliday

Amelia is a graduate of the Architectural Association in London (2012) and the University of New South Wales (2004). Prior to co-founding Aileen Sage Architects she worked at a number of award winning architectural practices in Sydney including Tonkin Zuilakha Greer, Architect Marshall and Neeson Murcutt Architects. Whilst at Neeson Murcutt Architects she was project architect on the Whale Beach House (AIA Wilkinson Award 2009), Stanmore Public School Library (AIA NSW Architecture Award 2011) and the Juanita Nielsen Centre upgrade.

Amelia is a registered architect in NSW and actively involved in the architectural community and is regularly engaged in teaching and critique at all three schools of architecture in Sydney. Amelia is a recipient of the UNSW University Medal, the NSW Board of Architects Medallion, and the Dulux Study Tour for emerging architects.