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Department of Architecture Guest LectureInside Practice: Alison Page at JCB11th June 2026Where: Jackson Clements Burrows...
28/05/2026

Department of Architecture Guest Lecture

Inside Practice: Alison Page at JCB

11th June 2026

Where: Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (JCB)

5.30pm Drinks

5.45 -7pm Lecture and Discussion

Join us in the office of to hear about the practice of Alison Page who is exhibiting a retrospective of her work at the Design Gallery at Melbourne University - Alison Page: Creative Shape Shifter.

Alison is a descendant of the Dharawal and Yuin people and is an award-winning multidimensional creative at the forefront of the contemporary Australian Aboriginal design movement.

Her career began in the late 90’s working in architecture and interior design in Australia’s first Aboriginal architecture group Merrima. Her award-winning work spans design, public art, film, exhibitions and major urban design projects across Australia. In 2015 she was inducted into the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame and in 2022 was the Interior Design Excellence Awards Gold Medal winner.

Alison was a panelist for eight years on the ABC television program The New Inventors, which showcased Australian innovation. In 2021 she co-authored Design, Building on Country with Paul Memmott, published by Thames and Hudson Australia as part of their First Knowledges Series. She is the founder of the National Aboriginal Design Agency and the House of BLAK.

She is currently a Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney and a member of several cultural boards including the National Australia Day Council, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, and the Australian National Maritime Museum. 

The Inside Practice Guest Lecture Series brings together emerging and established practitioners, alternative studios and allied professionals to share diverse approaches to architectural practice today

Register your interest via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/alison-page-at-jcb-doa-guest-lecture-inside-practice-tickets-1990056815506

📸 image credit: Steph Irvine

Who Owns the City? is a project by Dr Jacqui Alexander and students from Monash University Architecture. It begins from...
26/05/2026

Who Owns the City? is a project by Dr Jacqui Alexander and students from Monash University Architecture. It begins from a stark reality: Australia’s housing system has become a key driver of inequality. Soaring land values, the demolition of public housing, and the concentration of property in fewer hands are reshaping the social and spatial dynamics of cities. Against this backdrop, the project investigates a simple but urgent question: who owns the city?

Through countermapping practices and data sleuthing, students work with official records to construct a forensic picture of land ownership across inner Melbourne — where high amenity and escalating real estate values continue to displace marginalised communities. Through GIS mapping, it investigates landholdings that are partially insulated from speculative logics, and asks whether these sites could support new forms of subsidised and non-market housing.

Exhibition: Friday June 5 - Saturday June 6
Opening: 6pm Friday June 5

Supported by

“A monument does not necessarily equate to a monumental building.”Monuments was an exhibition of student research into b...
26/05/2026

“A monument does not necessarily equate to a monumental building.”

Monuments was an exhibition of student research into building-monuments as a part of a Studies Unit run by Nyoah Rosmarin at Monash Art, Design and Architecture. 

Photographs by
Co-curated by Nyoah Rosmarin and , hosted at the Maribyrnong Park Bowls & Croquet Club as a part of Melbourne Design Week.
 
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Department of Architecture Guest LectureInside Practice: Alison Page at JCB11th June 2026Where: Jackson Clements Burrows...
22/05/2026

Department of Architecture Guest Lecture

Inside Practice: Alison Page at JCB

11th June 2026

Where: Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (JCB)

5.30pm Drinks

5.45 -7pm Lecture and Discussion

Join us in the office of JCB architects to hear about the practice of Alison Page who is exhibiting a retrospective of her work at the Design Gallery at Melbourne University - Alison Page: Creative Shape Shifter.

Alison is a descendant of the Dharawal and Yuin people and is an award-winning multidimensional creative at the forefront of the contemporary Australian Aboriginal design movement.

Her career began in the late 90’s working in architecture and interior design in Australia’s first Aboriginal architecture group Merrima. Her award-winning work spans design, public art, film, exhibitions and major urban design projects across Australia. In 2015 she was inducted into the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame and in 2022 was the Interior Design Excellence Awards Gold Medal winner.

Alison was a panelist for eight years on the ABC television program The New Inventors, which showcased Australian innovation. In 2021 she co-authored Design, Building on Country with Paul Memmott, published by Thames and Hudson Australia as part of their First Knowledges Series. She is the founder of the National Aboriginal Design Agency and the House of BLAK.

She is currently a Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney and a member of several cultural boards including the National Australia Day Council, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, and the Australian National Maritime Museum. 

The Inside Practice Guest Lecture Series brings together emerging and established practitioners, alternative studios and allied professionals to share diverse approaches to architectural practice today

Register your interest via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/alison-page-at-jcb-doa-guest-lecture-inside-practice-tickets-1990056815506

Are you interested in teaching Architecture at Monash University?The Department of Architecture is an internationally ne...
22/05/2026

Are you interested in teaching Architecture at Monash University?

The Department of Architecture is an internationally networked community of practitioners, educators and researchers engaged in expanding architectural, urban and planning practice.

For Semester 2 2026 we have a limited call for sessionals across key subject areas in our undergraduate programme. If you are interested please read more about how to apply through the link in our bio.

Through a distinctive model of creative practice, Monash Architecture addresses pressing societal challenges with innovation, care, and criticality—driven by the belief that architecture can be an agent of change, shaping futures that are more just, sustainable, and beautiful.

Deadline for the expression of interest is 5pm, Friday 12 June.

Link in bio to apply

What happens when AI moves beyond image generation and starts reshaping how buildings are actually delivered?As part of ...
09/05/2026

What happens when AI moves beyond image generation and starts reshaping how buildings are actually delivered?

As part of Melbourne Design Week 2026, the Future Building Initiative team from Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) and Monash Architecture is hosting a public forum exploring how AI-enabled workflows are beginning to transform the coordination, decision-making, and delivery of buildings across architecture, engineering, and construction.

AI Workflows for Future Building Delivery brings together voices from practice, digital innovation, and construction to discuss where these technologies are already changing workflows — and where existing systems, contracts, and delivery models are struggling to keep up.

The session will feature short provocations from invited panellists, followed by an open discussion examining:

- workflow transformation across design and delivery
- AI and industrialised construction
- productivity and decarbonisation
- the changing role of designers within increasingly automated systems

The discussion will conclude with networking and refreshments, providing an opportunity for continued conversation across industry, research, and practice.

Featuring contributors from leading practices and organisations across architecture, engineering, digital delivery, and construction. Stay tuned for for information on our industry guests next week!

Thursday 21 May
6.00–7.30pm
Monash University, Caulfield Campus

Bookings and details:
https://lnkd.in/gs-FFWvU
Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
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We were recently joined by François Decoster of l’AUC for “The Commons as Profit: Rethinking Urban Transformation in Fra...
05/05/2026

We were recently joined by François Decoster of l’AUC for “The Commons as Profit: Rethinking Urban Transformation in France.”

The lecture explored new approaches to urban transformation, focusing on housing, density, and the value of shared commons, and featured projects across Lyon, Paris, Brussels, and Pessac.

Hosted by Monash Department of Architecture, Monash Urban Lab, and Urban Design Forum.

Guest lectures like these offer valuable perspectives on the challenges shaping architecture and urban design today.

A big thank you to François for sharing his work and insights.

Here are some images from last weeks talk

Have you visited the Melbourne Now exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia yet? Dr Timothy Moore , senior lec...
01/05/2023

Have you visited the Melbourne Now exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia yet? Dr Timothy Moore , senior lecture here at Monash curated the ‘Civic Architecture’ installation. Open now until 20th August. Posted • Greater Melbourne has grown by one million people in the last decade. This has been matched by increased investment in new architecture projects to provide anchors in this wild urban growth - Melbourne's new civic centres. Designed by the city's leading architects and landscape architects they are a confident expression of a rapidly changing social, cultural and economic landscape. (Curated by me 👋: ExDesign by NGV Design Studio, Jenny Kan)

Installation views of Civic Architecture on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre. Images (except image 2 in the carousel)

Large format photography and portraits

Last image NMBWs Garden Building

Join us this week at the MADA Gallery for the PhD Exhibitions of Monash Architecture PhD Candidates Jacqui Alexander and...
25/04/2023

Join us this week at the MADA Gallery for the PhD Exhibitions of Monash Architecture PhD Candidates Jacqui Alexander and Anthony Clarke.

Exhibition open from 10:00am - 5:00pm, Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 April.

Opening drinks 4:30 - 6:30pm, Thursday 27 April.

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ARCHITECTURE OF CARE
Using an Auto-Ethnographic Design Approach to Rearticulate Practice.

By Anthony Clarke

Examination: 2:30pm Thursday 27 April

This research establishes a care-focused methodology for the rearticulation of architectural practice. Three active architectural projects provide a means for testing and reflecting on an innovative methodological approach which brings together design research and autoethnography as a means to explore the relationships between project, process, architect and user.

Supervised by Nigel Bertram, John Gardner, Laura Harper

Image by U-P

Join us this week at the MADA Gallery for the PhD Exhibitions of Monash Architecture PhD Candidates Jacqui Alexander and...
25/04/2023

Join us this week at the MADA Gallery for the PhD Exhibitions of Monash Architecture PhD Candidates Jacqui Alexander and Anthony Clarke.

Exhibition open from 10:00am - 5:00pm, Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 April.

Opening drinks 4:30 - 6:30pm, Thursday 27 April.

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Dwelling on the Platform:
Housing Access and Equity in the Digital Society

By Jacqui Alexander

Examination: TBA

Through a series of speculative and critical creative works, Dwelling on the Platform: Housing Access and Equity in the Digital Society investigates how cultural and economic changes brought about by digital platforms and on-demand technologies are impacting the physical and social fabric of cities, in particular the home – the most elementary unit of the city, and a site at the centre of these transformations.

Supervised by Nigel Bertram, Alex Brown, Ari Seligmann

Image by Warren Taylor

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