About
agm provokes informal discussion and debate by and for architecture students and up and coming designers. Founded in 2015 as an Instagram account by Melbourne School of Design students, stemming from the addition of architecture + instagram, @archigram_melbourne. Our name also draws reference to the avant-garde British architectural group Archigram, architecture + telegram, their provocative broadcasts and radical aims for architecture. Sharing in this spirit is our core aim of “broadcasting all things architecture”.
The self published, hand made nature of the agm magazine volumes in an approachable makeshift format (that doesn’t take itself too seriously), encouraging architectural discourse in our audience beyond the classroom.
Our Team
Isabella Etna
Founder and Senior editor
Isabella Etna is an architect and alumni of M.Arch (MSD). In practice her focus is on adaptive reuse, preserving local methods of construction, and low impact materials. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Italian & Japanese language, architecture and culture, specifically the period of The School of Venice led by Giuseppe Samonà which was the focus of her Graduate Thesis.
Oscar Chaplin
Editor
Oscar is a recent graduate of B.Arch at RMIT and currently undertaking M.Arch at RMIT. His interests lay within the altered perception of space and experiential design. He has a keen focus towards temporal modes of architecture within public art, Exhibition and Runway design.
Natalie D'Souza
Editor
Natalie D’Souza is an architecture student at the Melbourne School of Design minoring in urban planning. Her interests lie at the intersection of architecture and urbanism, examining how individual projects contribute to larger questions of growth, movement and identity within the city. She is particularly interested in the often overlooked conditions that may shape urban experience and inform the way people engage with the built environment.
Kevin Huynh
Senior editor and Head of Operations
Kevin Huynh is a recent graduate of the M.Arch (MSD). Kevin’s passion lies within the process of designing innovative and sustainable spaces coupled with the use of emerging technologies, virtual reality, and different kinds of fabrication techniques.
Shreya Desai
Editor
Shreya Desai is a recent graduate of the B.Des and is currently pursuing the M.Arch at MSD. Her interests include exploring how architecture can facilitate meaningful relationships with landscape systems as a path towards social and environmental sustainability.
Thierry Fong
Editor
Lily Richards
Senior editor
Lily is a heritage and architecture masters graduate from the MSD with a research focus on design as a reinterpretive practice. Her work explores how creative processes can reconsider the role of heritage in identity, collective memory and meaning. Seeking nuanced ways to engage with preservation beyond conventional approaches, Lily investigates layered histories and ambiguous sites within the built environment.
Lily Hull
Editor
Lily is currently undertaking her M.Arch at the Melbourne School of Design. With an undergraduate degree in Communications and Creative Writing and a background in publishing, she is particularly interested in the intersection of material culture and the built environment.
