Architect Victoria

Reading Architecture

Official journal of the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter, since 1929. Print editions are published three times a year with a selection of articles featured here. Comprising of architects and built environment professionals, the editorial committee contribute towards planning, sourcing material, and reviewing Architect Victoria with the assistance of each edition’s guest editors, who are invited to curate a collection of articles based on subject expertise.

Sensory Design in Architecture + Perceptions of an Architect

Reflecting on Senses of Home

Home is a concept that is both familiar and elusive, encompassing both the material dwelling (a home) and an existential state (feeling at home). As ...

The Healing Garden at the Heide Museum of Modern Art

We’ve found that the Healing Garden is a democratic space because you don’t need language in the garden. There are no expectations in the garden. ...

Museum of Touch: Making Museums Accessible Through Technology

Museums have long served as cultural guardians, preserving and displaying collections of artworks, artifacts, and specimens that give insight into human history and the natural ...

Radical inclusion + Identity

Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity: Jackson Clements Burrows Architects

The University of Melbourne’s New Student Precinct (NSP) is not an unfamiliar place for Melburnians, particularly, among architects. It holds ground as a dynamic towering ...

NELP Bulleen Park & Ride: Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design with GHD & CPB

Anyone who has passed the new freeway interchange in Bulleen near Heide Museum of Modern Art will be shocked by the amount of new infrastructure ...

Designing therapeutic environments for residential aged care

How can we design for radical inclusion in residential aged care?

Urban Futures + Systems thinking in architecture – Guest edited by Danielle Jewson, David Ritter

Our Solarpunk future

If we do not or cannot envision the future we want, how can we create it? For many of us, it’s all too easy to imagine ...

Architecture as a system: Designing for regenerative development

As architects and designers, our role extends far beyond creating aesthetically pleasing structures; we are stewards of the built environment, responsible for shaping spaces that ...

The importance of Gender Impact Assessments in shaping future cities

The Royal Commission into Family Violence and resultant legislation has brought about changes to the way that built environment professionals are required to approach design. The ...

Migration Women Architecture – Guest edited by Marika Neustupny, Mirjana Lozanovska, Maryam Gusheh with Helen Duong and Sonia Sarangi

Penang + architect Eleena Jamil

Eleena Jamil Architect challenges the typical materials and forms of Malaysia with the Bamboo Pavilion, a structure designed and built for the World Urban Forum (WUF) ...

Jaghori + architect Belqis Youssofzay

By introducing Youssofzay, I want to draw attention to the significance of Afghan role models here in Australia. My sense of cultural and ethical alignment ...

Chennai + architect Chitra Vishwanath

With a portfolio ranging from installations to masterplans, architect Chitra Vishwanath and her practice Biome Environmental Solutions focus on designing spaces that are simple yet functional ...

Design for all life / Architecture and Planning – Guest edited by Stanislav Roudavski and Loren Adams

Creating an underwater garden

City skylines increasingly feature roofs and walls that are covered in foliage to trap stormwater and moderate internal climates. This approach to greening is now ...

Skin deep

I was making a left turn onto Lygon Street, towards East Brunswick, when my passenger, one of three founders of our Stockholm-based architecture practice, began ...

Apartment design guidelines as architecture

In 2016, the Victorian government implemented the Better Apartment Design Standards (BADS) into the Victoria Planning Provisions (VPP) and all its planning schemes.

Early Career Architecture – Guest Edited by Daniel Moore and Thomas Huntingford

Maggie Edmond: Edmond & Corrigan

Edmond & Corrigan has employed an incomparable number of young architects who have gone on to have prolific careers with their own practices or as ...

Amelia Borg, Kushagra Jhurani and Peter Elliott: How to get a job

Early career professionals are often guided by a practice’s development guidelines. Many help by pairing graduates with an experienced graduate, registered architect, or even an ...

Emerging Architect Prize: Alexander & Sheridan Architecture

In 2021, Jacqui Alexander and Ben Sheridan were the Victorian recipients of the Emerging Architect Prize. With a diverse CV of research, publications, exhibitions, and ...

Social Housing – Guest Edited by Eli Giannini

Ozanam House: MGS Architects

Joshua Darvill, coordination, engagement and participation manager at Ozanam House provides a snapshot of the services provided, long-term sustainable outcomes and reassessing the needs of ...

Investment in affordable housing quality: Why the industry should support it

Recently, we have seen many news stories pointing to the bounce back and now surge in house prices in our capital cities. With this, a ...

Homelessness and social housing

Arron Wood, former Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, on how architecture and good urban design can have a positive impact on the ...

Lost for words – Guest Edited by Andrew Mackenzie

Editorial: Lost for words

How we understand architecture, how we share its values and how architecture is situated within our changing world, is literally unthinkable without the written word.