Architecture theory and practice

Rethinking architecture as mediated, conceptualised, and practiced

We are driving forward research on how to design better healthcare environments, from hospitals to research laboratories.

Our researchers operate at both the edges and the intersections of theory and practice. Our researchers explore the key philosophical and theoretical movements that surge through architecture and its discourse, with diverse investments that include work in the post-structural, phenomenological, postcolonial, new materialism, feminist and queer theory zones.

We are simultaneously focussed on the material implications of architecture, and pragmatic questions such as how to design better healthcare environments, hospitals, institutions, research laboratories, etc.

We have a strong tradition of Design-Build approaches, and our researchers have constructed conceptually informed pavilions, public art, and installations in diverse urban and rural contexts. We research how architecture and spatial design professionals can incorporate First Nations understandings of Country in place and placemaking projects.

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Indigenising the Built Environment in Australia

This project aims to Indigenise discourse between Indigenous Communities and built environment professions, promote greater cultural competency and advocate for considerations of First Nations specific Performance Criteria in other registered built environment professions across Australia.

Eco-Active Building Envelopes

This Grand Challenge is identifying emerging nanotechnologies to develop the next generation of building envelopes.

Circularity by design

This project aims to identify opportunities and barriers for the adoption of circular economy strategies in the Australian construction industry, leading to systemic-radical innovation.

Seeding the Urban

This project focuses on socially and ecologically strained urban environments. In particular, the focus falls on the capacity for small-scale tactical urban interventions to generate large scale ripples of positive change.

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Postgraduate research degrees

Position yourself at the forefront of your field and work alongside some of the world's brightest and most accomplished academics.

You can undertake a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in architectural design, architecture history and theory, architectural science, design or urbanism.

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