Genton is a leading Australian architecture and urban design practice with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and London
Our team at Genton comprises passionate and experienced professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional architectural and urban design solutions. We believe in the power of collaboration and iteration, fostering an open exchange of ideas and perspectives to cultivate the highest quality of design. We strive to maintain close personal relationships with our clients, ensuring bespoke outcomes and attention to detail.
As an Australian founded practice we acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the lands where Genton works.
Our values
Our values shape every decision, conversation, and design move.
They determine not only how we create architecture, but how we engage with people, places, and ideas.
Intellectual Integrity
Through research, critical reflection, and genuine inquiry, we interrogate assumptions, including our own, to reach ideas worth building.
Ideas over hierarchy
We operate in a meritocracy, where the best idea always wins; it’s about solutions, not seniority.
Generosity
We believe architecture should enrich lives for generations to come. We listen closely to realise the client’s vision, while measuring a project’s success by how generously it serves all its stakeholders.
Open Exchange
Our communication is clear, concise and compelling. We facilitate an open exchange of ideas, in which asking questions is encouraged.
Sustainability
We design in consideration of the earth’s finite resources, viewing materials through a whole-of-life-cycle lens.
Inclusivity
We support reconciliation, gender equality and non-discrimination and celebrate diversity. We recognise the impact of design on inclusion, and endeavour to create spaces that feel welcoming for all.
Leadership
Steven Toia, Principal
Steven’s deep understanding of architectural principles and urban design concepts, coupled with his hands-on practical experience in business, enables him to approach projects with a unique blend of creativity, practicality, and problem-solving prowess.
Steven celebrates a collaborative team culture. It’s an ethos that he instils within the practice and across the delivery teams of every project to assure quality outcomes. Steven has served on a multitude of industry panels, as a competition juror, presenting at conferences, workshops, and in tutoring and guest lecturing capacities at universities.
He is registered with the Board of Architects in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania.
Marc Debney, Principal
Genton’s design leader enriches the team with a diverse range of expertise across residential, multi-residential, workplace and commercial projects, as well as public buildings and major infrastructure projects.
In his previous professional life, Marc was a lawyer, with a specialty in commercial property law – hands-on experience that ensures his thorough understanding of feasibility studies and planning applications. By remaining hands-on with his clients, Marc’s personal connection to Genton’s projects sees him involved from early concept through to construction and interior design finishes.
It’s his commitment to exceptional design standards that helps cement Genton’s reputation as an industry innovator.
Jamie McCutcheon, Principal
Jamie brings to Genton diverse international experience and a proven knowledge of the insights required for sustainable Architectural development.
His extensive delivery-focussed experience is a key component in Genton’s ability to transform large scale projects, such as Frankston Station, into award-winning Architecture while making a positive contribution to the local community. Jamie is a valued asset within the Genton team, leading the Rail and Education sectors in the office and is highly-regarded as a specialist in public spaces, places and infrastructure projects.
He has developed strong relationships with key government and commercial clients through his exceptional relationship-building skills.
Studios
Sydney
Level 7, 222 Clarence Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Melbourne
Level 6, 18 Oliver Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000
London
85 Great Titchfield St,
London W1W 6RJ
Origins of our name
From a young age, Steven recalls his maternal grandfather and father, a draftsman and a tradesman, huddled over a drawing board, working late into the night. The immigrants from The Netherlands and Italy respectively, courageously started a small enterprise, they called Genton, alongside their day jobs, buying a plot of land, designing and building houses. Witnessing them solve problems and make something lasting together made a deep impression on him. When he founded his own practice in 2010, he called it by the same name – Genton – to embody family, collaboration, hard work, invention and tenacity.
