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The idea of home is changing. Rising costs, new te

The idea of home is changing. Rising costs, new technologies and shifting ways of living are reshaping how Australians design, build and experience the spaces around them. From sustainable materials and smarter construction to flexible layouts that support work, family and community, the future of housing is already taking shape.

Join us on 2 March 2026 for a timely conversation on the changing idea of home. UTS Professor Anthony Burke, host of Grand Designs Australia, in conversation with architecture aficionado Tim Ross, will explore how the Australian dream is evolving across design, culture and the way we live.

This live event will include an opportunity for audience questions and discussion.

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What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Self-Directed

Brooke Jackson, Architect, Program Director, Master of Architecture, UTS
Academic Registered Board Member, NSW ARB, Principal, INformal Architects

@informal_architects @brookiejackjack

mArch studio

The Self-Directed studio offers the opportunity for students in their final semester to craft their own brief under the guidance of Masters Course Director, Brooke Jackson, whilst gaining input from industry professionals and academics akin to the chosen research topic. By forging a project that suits their own agenda Students will contribute to their portfolio of ongoing work, thinking beyond the walls of the Academy, and the future trajectory of their professional undertaking.

IMAGE: Alverta Hidou, Soft Negotiation, Self-Directed Studio, SPR25

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Liquid Curricula: Designing a Harbour School for Sydney

Sophie Lanigan, Sophie Lanigan Projects +Angela Xu, Hill Thalis

@sophielanigan_ @paintingshoe

mArch studio

The studio reimagines education as water governance infrastructure and challenges students to design a tidal classroom where academic learning, maritime vocational training and living infrastructure research converge. Working in pairs, the students have the opportunity to select from a list of 10 city-sea locations along the surf and harbour coast of Sydney. Students will engage with the NSW Government’s Connecting with Country framework, the recently reformed Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the High Seas Treaty (entered force January 2026) and emerging scholarship around the rights of nature to design a space for young urban hydrocitizens to learn. The studio advances UTS’s urban equity strategic pillar by positioning public education as transformative. Through speculative yet realistic architectural propositions, the students will work to design a harbour school for our shared aquatic city.

IMAGE: Seawall Duff Reserve, Sophie Lanigan, 2024

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Reframing Design: Deconstruction and Reuse in the Context of Sydney’s Built Environment II

Amy Seo, Second Edition

@secondeditionau

mArch studio

This Studio explores the deconstruction and reuse of building materials within the context of Sydney. Through the lens of industrial precincts and fabrication facilities, students will visit a series of workshops to document material flows and waste streams as active resources for design.

Students will engage with a process that challenges traditional design methodologies that seek to unravel the potential and feasibility of utilising traditionally discarded materials. By beginning the design process with materials rather than form or programme, the Studio introduces a resource-efficient mindset and promotes a shift toward circular design thinking.

Their second task will be to develop a new ‘no waste’ fabrication and material holding facility, where identified manufacturing waste material will be reintroduced through products or as building materials. The project positions the building as an active demonstration of material reuse, operating simultaneously as infrastructure, fabrication space, and public exemplar of circular construction practices for the local community.

IMAGE: Processed reclaimed timber (Oregon) studwork Image Credit: Hamish McIntosh

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Good Neighbours II

Alberto Quizon, Senior Associate, BVN + Hugo Raggett, Associate Director, CHROFI

@alberto_q @hugoraggett

mArch studio

Good Neighbours proposes a counterpoint to the recently released NSW Housing Pattern Book. While the Pattern Book offers thoughtful and well-designed typologies, its emphasis on demolition and speed assumes the solution is to build more, build faster and build better. The role of land value, tenure, and development logic in shaping housing outcomes remains unresolved. More urgently, with Sydney’s house price-to-income ratio approaching 12.5, housing affordability continues to deteriorate, exposing a gap that neither market led development nor existing public housing models have addressed.
This studio explores how housing intensification can work in the spaces between existing buildings, promoting incremental change and spatial negotiation across property lines. At this scale, the studio investigates how alternative ownership models, particularly cooperative and collective housing, can support genuine affordability beyond speculative market cycles.

Responding to ageing in place, multigenerational living, and the rise of single occupant households, the studio examines housing precedents that respond to changing domestic needs. Students will analyse housing plans that structure shared amenities and adaptability to support equitable living. Students will then identify latent development potential in the spaces between existing dwellings to propose new housing models that offer genuine diversity and gentle densification.

IMAGE: Lillian Le, Terrace Commons, Good Neighbours I @ studio__lil

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

All

Highlights

10

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

5

Research

2

Archive

0

Who we are

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture

Masters of Architecture

Masters of Landscape Architecture & Masters of Research in Landscape Architecture

Masters of Research in Architecture

PhD

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

UTS School of Architecture

702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

T. +61 2 9514 8024

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

The idea of home is changing. Rising costs, new te

The idea of home is changing. Rising costs, new technologies and shifting ways of living are reshaping how Australians design, build and experience the spaces around them. From sustainable materials and smarter construction to flexible layouts that support work, family and community, the future of housing is already taking shape.

Join us on 2 March 2026 for a timely conversation on the changing idea of home. UTS Professor Anthony Burke, host of Grand Designs Australia, in conversation with architecture aficionado Tim Ross, will explore how the Australian dream is evolving across design, culture and the way we live.

This live event will include an opportunity for audience questions and discussion.

Link in bio.

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Self-Directed

Brooke Jackson, Architect, Program Director, Master of Architecture, UTS
Academic Registered Board Member, NSW ARB, Principal, INformal Architects

@informal_architects @brookiejackjack

mArch studio

The Self-Directed studio offers the opportunity for students in their final semester to craft their own brief under the guidance of Masters Course Director, Brooke Jackson, whilst gaining input from industry professionals and academics akin to the chosen research topic. By forging a project that suits their own agenda Students will contribute to their portfolio of ongoing work, thinking beyond the walls of the Academy, and the future trajectory of their professional undertaking.

IMAGE: Alverta Hidou, Soft Negotiation, Self-Directed Studio, SPR25

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Liquid Curricula: Designing a Harbour School for Sydney

Sophie Lanigan, Sophie Lanigan Projects +Angela Xu, Hill Thalis

@sophielanigan_ @paintingshoe

mArch studio

The studio reimagines education as water governance infrastructure and challenges students to design a tidal classroom where academic learning, maritime vocational training and living infrastructure research converge. Working in pairs, the students have the opportunity to select from a list of 10 city-sea locations along the surf and harbour coast of Sydney. Students will engage with the NSW Government’s Connecting with Country framework, the recently reformed Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the High Seas Treaty (entered force January 2026) and emerging scholarship around the rights of nature to design a space for young urban hydrocitizens to learn. The studio advances UTS’s urban equity strategic pillar by positioning public education as transformative. Through speculative yet realistic architectural propositions, the students will work to design a harbour school for our shared aquatic city.

IMAGE: Seawall Duff Reserve, Sophie Lanigan, 2024

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Reframing Design: Deconstruction and Reuse in the Context of Sydney’s Built Environment II

Amy Seo, Second Edition

@secondeditionau

mArch studio

This Studio explores the deconstruction and reuse of building materials within the context of Sydney. Through the lens of industrial precincts and fabrication facilities, students will visit a series of workshops to document material flows and waste streams as active resources for design.

Students will engage with a process that challenges traditional design methodologies that seek to unravel the potential and feasibility of utilising traditionally discarded materials. By beginning the design process with materials rather than form or programme, the Studio introduces a resource-efficient mindset and promotes a shift toward circular design thinking.

Their second task will be to develop a new ‘no waste’ fabrication and material holding facility, where identified manufacturing waste material will be reintroduced through products or as building materials. The project positions the building as an active demonstration of material reuse, operating simultaneously as infrastructure, fabrication space, and public exemplar of circular construction practices for the local community.

IMAGE: Processed reclaimed timber (Oregon) studwork Image Credit: Hamish McIntosh

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Good Neighbours II

Alberto Quizon, Senior Associate, BVN + Hugo Raggett, Associate Director, CHROFI

@alberto_q @hugoraggett

mArch studio

Good Neighbours proposes a counterpoint to the recently released NSW Housing Pattern Book. While the Pattern Book offers thoughtful and well-designed typologies, its emphasis on demolition and speed assumes the solution is to build more, build faster and build better. The role of land value, tenure, and development logic in shaping housing outcomes remains unresolved. More urgently, with Sydney’s house price-to-income ratio approaching 12.5, housing affordability continues to deteriorate, exposing a gap that neither market led development nor existing public housing models have addressed.
This studio explores how housing intensification can work in the spaces between existing buildings, promoting incremental change and spatial negotiation across property lines. At this scale, the studio investigates how alternative ownership models, particularly cooperative and collective housing, can support genuine affordability beyond speculative market cycles.

Responding to ageing in place, multigenerational living, and the rise of single occupant households, the studio examines housing precedents that respond to changing domestic needs. Students will analyse housing plans that structure shared amenities and adaptability to support equitable living. Students will then identify latent development potential in the spaces between existing dwellings to propose new housing models that offer genuine diversity and gentle densification.

IMAGE: Lillian Le, Terrace Commons, Good Neighbours I @ studio__lil

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

All

Highlights

10

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

5

Research

2

Archive

0

Who we are

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture

Masters of Architecture

Masters of Landscape Architecture & Masters of Research in Landscape Architecture

Masters of Research in Architecture

PhD

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

UTS School of Architecture

702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

T. +61 2 9514 8024

Highlights

10

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

5

Research

2

Archive

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Lectures Collective Repair – A public lecture by Ana Miljački April 19th 2:29 AM

Undergraduate Architecture – Rescaling the School – Design Studio 5 July 1st 1:17 AM

Publications House Precinct Territory, Design Strategies for a Productive City November 24th 3:44 AM

Highlights Leon Dib + Jai Dawson-Hopcraft – Hacking Loopholes: The case of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Flood Resilience District – Landscape – Capstone Project July 9th 11:09 PM

Lectures Solidarity, TS School of Architecture Public Program curated by Dr. Endriana Audisho January 22nd 3:51 AM

Masters Re-Territorialisation for a Changing Climate: The Suburb July 9th 11:22 PM

Undergraduate Architecture – Design Studio 4 July 1st 1:17 AM

Undergraduate Landscape Architecture – Design Studio 6 July 9th 9:41 AM

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This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

The idea of home is changing. Rising costs, new te

The idea of home is changing. Rising costs, new technologies and shifting ways of living are reshaping how Australians design, build and experience the spaces around them. From sustainable materials and smarter construction to flexible layouts that support work, family and community, the future of housing is already taking shape.

Join us on 2 March 2026 for a timely conversation on the changing idea of home. UTS Professor Anthony Burke, host of Grand Designs Australia, in conversation with architecture aficionado Tim Ross, will explore how the Australian dream is evolving across design, culture and the way we live.

This live event will include an opportunity for audience questions and discussion.

Link in bio.

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Self-Directed

Brooke Jackson, Architect, Program Director, Master of Architecture, UTS
Academic Registered Board Member, NSW ARB, Principal, INformal Architects

@informal_architects @brookiejackjack

mArch studio

The Self-Directed studio offers the opportunity for students in their final semester to craft their own brief under the guidance of Masters Course Director, Brooke Jackson, whilst gaining input from industry professionals and academics akin to the chosen research topic. By forging a project that suits their own agenda Students will contribute to their portfolio of ongoing work, thinking beyond the walls of the Academy, and the future trajectory of their professional undertaking.

IMAGE: Alverta Hidou, Soft Negotiation, Self-Directed Studio, SPR25

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Liquid Curricula: Designing a Harbour School for Sydney

Sophie Lanigan, Sophie Lanigan Projects +Angela Xu, Hill Thalis

@sophielanigan_ @paintingshoe

mArch studio

The studio reimagines education as water governance infrastructure and challenges students to design a tidal classroom where academic learning, maritime vocational training and living infrastructure research converge. Working in pairs, the students have the opportunity to select from a list of 10 city-sea locations along the surf and harbour coast of Sydney. Students will engage with the NSW Government’s Connecting with Country framework, the recently reformed Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the High Seas Treaty (entered force January 2026) and emerging scholarship around the rights of nature to design a space for young urban hydrocitizens to learn. The studio advances UTS’s urban equity strategic pillar by positioning public education as transformative. Through speculative yet realistic architectural propositions, the students will work to design a harbour school for our shared aquatic city.

IMAGE: Seawall Duff Reserve, Sophie Lanigan, 2024

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Reframing Design: Deconstruction and Reuse in the Context of Sydney’s Built Environment II

Amy Seo, Second Edition

@secondeditionau

mArch studio

This Studio explores the deconstruction and reuse of building materials within the context of Sydney. Through the lens of industrial precincts and fabrication facilities, students will visit a series of workshops to document material flows and waste streams as active resources for design.

Students will engage with a process that challenges traditional design methodologies that seek to unravel the potential and feasibility of utilising traditionally discarded materials. By beginning the design process with materials rather than form or programme, the Studio introduces a resource-efficient mindset and promotes a shift toward circular design thinking.

Their second task will be to develop a new ‘no waste’ fabrication and material holding facility, where identified manufacturing waste material will be reintroduced through products or as building materials. The project positions the building as an active demonstration of material reuse, operating simultaneously as infrastructure, fabrication space, and public exemplar of circular construction practices for the local community.

IMAGE: Processed reclaimed timber (Oregon) studwork Image Credit: Hamish McIntosh

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Good Neighbours II

Alberto Quizon, Senior Associate, BVN + Hugo Raggett, Associate Director, CHROFI

@alberto_q @hugoraggett

mArch studio

Good Neighbours proposes a counterpoint to the recently released NSW Housing Pattern Book. While the Pattern Book offers thoughtful and well-designed typologies, its emphasis on demolition and speed assumes the solution is to build more, build faster and build better. The role of land value, tenure, and development logic in shaping housing outcomes remains unresolved. More urgently, with Sydney’s house price-to-income ratio approaching 12.5, housing affordability continues to deteriorate, exposing a gap that neither market led development nor existing public housing models have addressed.
This studio explores how housing intensification can work in the spaces between existing buildings, promoting incremental change and spatial negotiation across property lines. At this scale, the studio investigates how alternative ownership models, particularly cooperative and collective housing, can support genuine affordability beyond speculative market cycles.

Responding to ageing in place, multigenerational living, and the rise of single occupant households, the studio examines housing precedents that respond to changing domestic needs. Students will analyse housing plans that structure shared amenities and adaptability to support equitable living. Students will then identify latent development potential in the spaces between existing dwellings to propose new housing models that offer genuine diversity and gentle densification.

IMAGE: Lillian Le, Terrace Commons, Good Neighbours I @ studio__lil

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

All

Highlights

10

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

5

Research

2

Archive

0

Who we are

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Design in Interior Architecture

Masters of Architecture

Masters of Landscape Architecture & Masters of Research in Landscape Architecture

Masters of Research in Architecture

PhD

This is the online End of the Year Show (EOYS) of the School of Architecture at UTS, UTS FOUND HERE / MAIL / NEWSLETTER

Instagram

UTS School of Architecture

702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

T. +61 2 9514 8024

Highlights July 9th 2025

Faith Trestrail + James O’Brien + Piper Stenz – Architecture – Capstone Project –

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