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 along with its free distribution at the annual Melbourne School of Design exhibition 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
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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.
Christina Garbi
Senior Editor
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Christina is a MArch graduate and an MPhil/PhD candidate in Architectural and Urban History and Theory, both at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Christina’s research foregrounds the role of architecture in knowledge production, with the aim to develop representational strategies that illustrate built and natural environment entanglements, informed by historical, cultural and ecological data, towards sustainable imaginaries and modes of practice. Christina previously taught Foundations of Design: Representation at the MSD.
Nina Nervegna
Editor
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Nina is a designer, artist, and writer, and an MArch graduate of the MSD. She previously trained in painting (BVA, USyd) and service design (MDes, UTS). She works at Garner Davis Architects and co-runs Cellar, an experimental architectural project that conducts speculative, transdisciplinary, repair-oriented research into sites around Naarm-Melbourne.
Kevin Huynh
Senior editor and Head of Operations
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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.
Oscar Chaplin
Editor
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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.
Elena Stefanos
Editor
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Elena is a graduate of the B.Des and is currently pursuing the M.Arch at MSD. She is interested in research-based and multimediatic modes of practice, where cultural, political, economic and ecological discourses are uniquely spatialised.
Lily Richards
Senior editor
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Lily is a heritage and architecture masters student at the MSD with a strong 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.
Shreya Desai
Editor
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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.​
