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.

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

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 ...

What does the future city look like? Next question

A conversation between Mike Hewson and Sunday Hyde

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

Tehran + architect Kamran Diba

Tehran is a busy metropolis with densely packed housing and small galleries, parks, cafes and restaurants in the pockets of every main street. A stroll ...

Matsuyama + architect Hiroshi Sambuichi

Matsuyama, on Shikoku Island, is known as the City of Haiku, with heritage architecture associated with notable haiku poets.

Siedmiorogow Drugi + architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak

Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak’s earlier housing project, Maisonette Apartments, built in 1960, was a modernist undertaking and the first in Poland to have apartments spanning across two levels.

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.

Written and curated

Architectural journals are powerful agents in the story of architecture.

Profit, publish, and perish

Words in the university sector

Climate Action – Guest Edited by Stefan Preuss

The value of being a carbon neutral practice

Jeremy McLeod and Madeline Sewall of Breathe Architecture on sustainability, right-sized housing and building more with less.

Decarbonising buildings

Research on low-carbon and zero-emission building design across North America and Europe, published prior to both the devastating bushfires and the pandemic, reinforce the urgency ...