Tone Wheeler is an architect, author, educator and consultant with an abiding interest in environmentally sustainable design (esd). in the mid seventies at the university of sydney he assisted in the construction of the "autonomous house", a working example of a low energy house constructed entirely from recycled materials. upon graduation tone worked for the australian government in canberra where he designed a range of low cost social housing that won the r.a.i.a residential design award (c s daley medal) in 1980.  for the past thirty years he has worked in his own practice.
tone is a past chair of the aia national environment committee & a past member of the sustainabilty committee. after a ten year association, he retired from the board of ABSA (association of building sustainability assessors) and he was also a member of the building professionals board.
tone has taught extensively over the past 30 years, he has been on the faculty of 3 universities, is a sustainability advocate and frequent speaker at architectural conferences and seminars. he has been a judge on ABC tv  ‘the new inventors’,  a member of the ‘woodies’ and a ‘homie’ on ABC radio.

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Design notes for week 42/2023 from Tone on Tuesday
There are two ways to look at indigenous affairs: what white society should do to help our indigenous; and how our indigenous could help white society. In the year-long NO campaign we heard endless lies and misinformation about the former, but nothing of the latter. And that’s a tragedy, which could be remedied by design.
Design notes for week 41/2023 from Tone on Tuesday
It's sad to convey the recent passing of Marshall Thomas Cook, New Zealand's finest domestic architect.
Design notes for week 40/2023 from Tone on Tuesday
“The future is not what it used to be: We were promised jetpacks and instead received e-bikes.” Jack Murphy in the Architect’s Newspaper reviews the MOMA exhibition Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the rise of Environmentalism, highlighted in Design Notes 180.
Design notes for week 39/2023 from Tone on Tuesday
“If you don't know, vote no”. Stupid bogan slogan. Reply? “If you don't know, find out”. Not just about the referendum, but indigenous culture. By extension, so many architects need to find out about indigenous thinking about country, and how it can influence design.
Design notes for this week from Tone on Tuesday
We have a housing crisis, and we need solutions to the shortage of houses now, not in two-or ten-years’ time when the HAFF may begin to produce maybe 6,000 houses a year.
Design notes for this week from Tone on Tuesday
Last week we celebrated NSW Labor Premier Chris Minn's decision to not do something: abandoning replacement of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, aka Powerhouse, in Sydney’s Ultimo, in favour of a reno, and some small alts and adds.