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.

Architects after Architecture: Alternative Pathways to Practice edited by Rory Hyde, Harriet Harris and Roberta Marcaccio

If you’ve ever been on the internet you’ve seen a meme before. How can I be so sure of this? Because memes are all around us, simultaneously

Scott Woods and Kim Vo Duy recently opened their two part mid-semester review, Studio 08: MAXXI Studio.