Architecture Australia

Ask architects which Australian magazine they choose to read or to publish their work and the answer is most likely Architecture Australia. If you want to be up to date with the best built works and the issues that matter, then Architecture Australia is for you. Its commissioned contributors are independent, highly respected practitioners, architectural thinkers and design commentators and each article is supported by images from leading architectural photographers. Provocative, informative and engaging – it is the national magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects.

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Lyons with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Architects EAT, Aspect Studios and Glas Urban • In an ambitious act of co-creation, a diverse group of practices has listened to more than 20,000 students and staff to design a student precinct that encourages connections – between people, disciplines, past and present, inside and out.

Incidental Architecture • Underpinned by a years-long relationship and a set of shared values, Incidental Architecture’s work at Nungalinya uses robust materials to achieve a simple, practical elegance.

Kosloff Architecture • By knitting together a new three-storey building and a refurbished, heritage-listed hall in regional Victoria, Kosloff Architecture has designed a valuable asset for the community and the local TAFE.

Practising ngara in urban Country • Maddison Miller and Matt Novacevski take us on a walk through Melbourne's Docklands, on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, to explore what might happen if we engage with Country as a living entity, even in the built-up heart of the city.

Vale Peter Muller 3 July 1927 – 17 February 2023 • Part of the Sydney School, Peter Muller transformed international luxury hotel design in the 1980s, integrating traditional forms and natural materials to devise a new modernist vernacular.

Vale Les Clarke 15 July 1936 – 24 January 2023 • Beginning with Eltham College, which he founded in 1973, Les Clarke transformed school design in Australia, leading to policy change and significant new opportunities for schools and communities as well as architects.

An Unfinished Masterpiece • Gideon Haigh and Peter Elliott have joined journalistic and architectural forces to produce a “captivating chronicle” of the intriguing (and ongoing) development of Victoria’s Parliament House.

Talking circular: Lasse Lind on designing-in the capacity to change • As the research group at Copenhagen-based 3XN Architects, GXN focuses on circular design, behavioural design, and technology, pushing for industry innovations to make built environments more sustainable. Philip Oldfield spoke to GXN partner Lasse Lind about the group’s role and what’s hindering the shift.

Sean Godsell Architects • In the rocky plains west of Melbourne, Sean Godsell Architects has reduced a weekender to its essential elements in a refined design that both inhabits and provides refuge from its harsh and spectacular surrounds.

Anthony Gill Architects • On the edge of a ridge west of Sydney, Anthony Gill Architects has set up a theatrical performance, linking a 1970s home with a new guesthouse in a single composition that both occupies the landscape and respects its magnificence.

Australian Institute of Architects’ National Prizes 2023

Kerstin Thompson • Since Kerstin Thompson began practising in the 1990s, her built works and advocacy have quietly but radically changed the way we think about heritage, landscape and the whole business of design.

Context and connection: Responding to circumstance • Thompson’s inventive response to context and circumstance has led to designs in which historical leads...