Monumentality, not beauty, is Melbourne’s disposition, and there is no better example of this than the 2,000-metre stretch between Flemington Bridge and Dynon Road along the Moonee Ponds Creek. It is one of the most unique spaces I have been to in the world, worthwhile for anyone visiting to understand both Melbourne’s history and the monumental architecture of the freeway.

The design of data centres will define how we experience the digital world as something private and alien, or civic and shared. Melbourne once lost its architectural soul through demolition. It must not lose it again through invisibility. To hide the architecture of data is to deny that the digital is part of our culture.

Melbourne is a multilayered city shaped by historical and environmental narratives, diverse cultures, collective memories and shared experiences. Architects in Melbourne carry a responsibility for how new design interprets and responds to this intricate context. To do this well, architects must develop the skills to analyse and represent place, not only by observing environmental conditions, but also by understanding and respecting the complex layers that shape it.

Edmond and Corrigan's architectural language of pluralism and eclecticism is one that has been passed down through a large Melbournian architectural student family tree. Level one of the Design Hub practically tells the story; in a particularly muted and cold building a large splash of colour with a graphic that reads "Mother Knows!" can be found in stark juxtaposition to Godsell's Design Hub. A fitting reference to the influence that was and is Edmond and Corrigan.

As we enter the second quarter of the 21st century, cities are shifting toward a new ecological paradigm. Cities are no longer sites of purely human ambition, but dynamic terrains in which ecological entanglement is paramount.

The post-colonial spatial history of Australia’s wetlands embodies a complex assemblage of areal associations, whose scenescape of disfiguration and exploitation has generated profound spiritual and corporeal unrest.

On the 20th of September, 2023, the Victorian Government's Labor Party released its housing statement and plan for the next ten years. On the 31st page of the document, via a dot point, it was announced that the Government would be ‘retiring our ageing high-rise towers’.1 While replacing these aged facilities with newly built homes sounds attractive, the Government's plan to replace them is fraught with issues concerning existing residents.

Verschlimmbessern is a German word which describes the peculiar act of making something worse in an honest though misguided attempt to improve it.1 In early 2021, beyond a series of hoardings and CBD lockdowns, such a fate quietly befell the Centreway Arcade.

Authors are scarcely to be trusted on the subject of authorship, yet there seems no-one else to be read on the issue. The contemporary idea of authorship in architecture derives from the Latin augere, ‘to increase, originate, promote’, defining a history involved with the dissemination of clarity, expertise and centralized knowledge, all notions which periodically become antiquated within the critical lineage of the discipline.

Non-anthropocentrism generates energetic questions. In terms of design, they concern possibility and purpose.

A reflection on Naarm-Melbourne’s relationship with Birrarung-Yarra By Christina Garbi Punt Road - Richmond, Christina Garbi Birrarung...

Over the last year, artificial intelligence has been wreaking havoc in online, professional, and educational communities.

Alexia Baikie delves into one of Carlton's iconic buildings, and the implications of its recent demolition and redevelopment.

Kim Võ contemplates the print medium's place within contemporary architectural education.

Agm attended a panel discussion focusing on student publishing hosted by the Robin Boyd Foundation at the Walsh St House in South Yarra.

Great architecture pays close attention to how the human body experiences space. When a designer thinks about the body as a whole – full and

Since 2014 the MPavilion has commissioned local and international architects to develop designs for the pavilion itself.

This article collects the voices of students who have studied architecture at the University of Melbourne from abroad since COVID

What is innovation in housing development? In community housing projects, who are architects really designing for?

Melbourne is no stranger to architecture that speculates the possible futures of the space beneath - the underground.