About Us

Ivo is internationally recognised for his ability to combine creativity with function to produce beautiful designs. He is often in demand by other architectural design practices to assist with presentation direction. Ivo drives projects in Australia and overseas, particularly throughout Asia and the Middle East and is the design director of many of the luxury homes which the company designs.

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A graduate of Melbourne University, Vic has been a crucial part of Robert and Ivo’s design team for almost 10 years. Vic’s connections with the Chinese community both here and overseas have led to collaborations that have extended the breadth of knowledge and services offered at CKA group.  He is also an expert on keeping the barkitects focused, mainly through bribery with pieces of his lunch.

Originally from China, Song completed her Masters of Architecture at Curtin University and registered as an architect in 2018. She is proficient in producing high end renderings and has a great sense of style (I mean have you seen her shoes).

Philip comes to us from literally just around the corner. With 30 years of experience working on similar projects he uses his advanced CAD expertise and wizardry to bring life to our residential and commercial projects.

As the newest member of CKA, we came across Chelsea at our last Christmas function.  Discovering her passion for architecture and recognising her talent, we wasted no time in stealing her for ourselves (we have zero shame). Chelsea joined the team to assist with CKA’s larger projects. Her tasks range from assisting in the preparation of presentation materials, to helping the project lead with on-going schematic design and town planning applications.  She also works alongside Ann ensuring that our company presence is felt across all four corners of the globe.

Nigerian born Augustine now calls Australia home. He completed a Masters Degree with distinction and worked as a registered architect in Nigeria for 10 years. He does consultant work for CKA, making sure projects are well documented and have a smooth transition from design to build.  It is also impossible to take a bad photo of Augustine.  Trust us, we tried.

Whilst completing her Master of Architecture at Melbourne University, Laura took advantage of the graduate program offered by Robert and Ivo. Starting with CKA back in 2015, Laura went from strength to strength and became the youngest appointed Associate Director of the CKA Group. Nowadays she works from home as a consultant architect and helps with CKA projects from time to time. Her ability to translate client concepts into solid design solutions has produced many extraordinary outcomes.

David uses his knowledge and skills to bring all types of opportunitites to the company. His position is highly secretive and involves many clandestine zoom conferences in the small meeting room. I think he may be a secret agent with the sole purpose of infiltrating the deep, dark corners of the architectural underworld. Having worked along side Robert for the better part of 20 years, maybe they are both spies…..

Ann has been with the company since its inception.  As a child she could often be found crawling around under drawing boards and tying staff members’ shoelaces together.  Robert would attempt to keep her occupied by assigning her with various tasks, many of which she ignored.  These days Ann works on a contract basis heading up the marketing and communications side of the business.  Her sense of humour and cheeky personality can be found in the company’s press releases and news articles.  When she is in the office, she still likes to ignore the tasks Robert assigns to her.

Kaye has been an integral part of the company from day 1.  Working alongside Robert and Ivo in all aspects of the business, she has been a wise sounding board and voice of reason.  Highly customer service focused she is most often the first face you will see upon entering the office.

Keryn joined us just in time to garner herself an invite to our awesome Christmas lunch.  As Accounts Manager she is the holder of all things sacred, the passwords to the office bank accounts.  She laughs.  A lot.  Its kind of infectious.  When she’s not in the office she enjoys cooking and pole dancing, although not at the same time (now THAT would be impressive).

Roger leads the Shanghai team and uses his strong business acumen to bring in truly exceptional opportunities.

Fred became a member of the CKA team in 2020 when the demand for doghouses increased.  Working alongside Willow, his knowledge in all things demolition have helped the two become an unstoppable force.  Fred likes to attend staff meetings where he is silent, but deadly.

Willow joined the team in 2017 as a work experience pup. Known for her custom doghouse designs, her skills and creativity are in high demand. Customer service focused and with an eye for detail Willow has a strong work ethic, providing she is rewarded with belly rubs.