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#repost @utsdab Big congrats to the 2025 Australia

#repost @utsdab Big congrats to the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Student Architecture Award winners! 🎉

Hosted at the University of Technology Sydney, this year’s awards celebrated bold ideas, strong narratives, and socially engaged design. We are proud to see our students shine:

NSW Architectural Technologies Award
- Award – Cheera Montriwat and Neha Kayastha

Special Commendation for Social Impact
- Commendation – Tyler Smith and Miles Agius

University of Technology Sydney
- History & Theory Prize – James Bell
- Construction & Practice Prize – Claudia Koks
- Graduate of the Year (Master’s Program) – Ricky Gagliardi
- Graduate of the Year (Bachelor’s Program) – Claudia Koks

Incredible work from the next generation of architects!

We are happy to announce an upcoming Master of Arc

We are happy to announce an upcoming Master of Architecture block mode global design studio:

Quantifying Quality of Urban Space: A Generative Approach
Dr. Mohammed Makki @m_a_k_k_i
with SJB and Abu Dhabi University @aboutsjb @abudhabiuni

mArch 12cp Global Design Studio 2025

The utility of quantitative data sets in the design of urban space is critical to achieving a strong understanding of the environmental and climatic conditions that the urban fabric is situated within, allowing for a contextual urban response that is finely tuned to the local conditions of the site. The data sets implemented in current generative design models of urban space are primarily quantifiable metrics associated with the environment at macro-scale (climate, population density, solar gain, rainfall, etc.); although they are critical to the design of an urban space that is robust to current and future conditions, the quantification of quality is sparsely implemented in current generative models. This is primarily due to the complexity of converting qualitative understandings of urban space (usually associated with feelings, emotions, social and cultural impacts) into numeric representations. The studio explores this Quantification of Quality through the integration of qualitative data sets in both analytic and generative computational models for the design of multiple suburbs throughout Sydney. Students will work in groups and redesign neighbourhoods in Abu Dhabi, capital city of the United Arab Emirates. As part of the studio, students will travel to Abu Dhabi and collaborate with students and academics from Abu Dhabi University. The studio will also be supported by practitioners from the urban design office SJB Sydney, who will provide industry driven insight on improving the quality of urban space.

This is a 12cp block-mode Design Studio open to Master of Architecture Students
Running 17th November to 19th December, 2025 - travel dates to Abu Dhabi 7th-20th(inclusive), pre-sessions (UTS campus + zoom) 22nd-26th September.
Info session Wednesday 4th June 1pm (zoom link via CANVAS)
EOI due 9pm Wednesday 11th June (instructions via CANVAS)

Proud to see members of our UTS Architecture commu

Proud to see members of our UTS Architecture community contributing to such an important conversation. @davepigram @jo.kinni @shannon_foster444 @bangawarra @supermanoeuvre @iainmaxmaxwell

#repost @institute_architects_aus It’s National Reconciliation Week (NRW), with the 2025 theme of “Bridging Now to Next,” reflecting the ongoing connection between past, present and future.

It is worth highlighting how Dave Pigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster explore how to align designing with County and designing for climate change using technology.

“This article explores the productive synergies between design for climate and design for Country, and the ways that computation can contribute meaningfully. Our context is a world experiencing multiple crises (climate, biodiversity loss, equity) and a discipline (architecture) that has historically reinvented itself by embracing the transformative potential demanded (and offered) by such challenges. We frame these lesser discussed use cases of computation via three case studies: a robotic re-enactment of a place-based craft, a system of earth-cast vaults, and a pavilion constructed from minimally processed tree forks.” – Dave Pigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster

Architecture Bulletin | Technology: AI and Architecture | 2025

Read the full article by Dave Pigram @davepigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell @iainmaxmaxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster @bangawarra with the link in bio.

NSW Chapter members receive the printed copy of the Architecture Bulletin as part of their membership.

Pictured: Gibba Gunya earthen vaults. Doug and Wolf Visualisation

#ArchitectureDesign #Architecture #Architect #AustralianArchitecture #Design #InteriorDesign #ContemporaryArchitecture #Architects #AustralianArchitects #NSWArchitecture #SydneyArchitecture #AffordableHousing #NSWarchitecture #artificialintelligence #AI #nrw2025 #Reconciliation #BridgingNowtoNext #NRW

We’re so proud to see our students’ work featu

We’re so proud to see our students’ work featured in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. As part of this year’s exhibition, HOME, the students responded by expressing what home means to them — through Indigenous-led design, storytelling, and objects (Living Belongings) that reflect deep connections to Country, culture and community.

@home_as_country @utslandscape @utsdab

UTS Architecture academics Matte Ager-McConnell an

UTS Architecture academics Matte Ager-McConnell and Dr Endriana Audisho were privileged to join Dr Michael Mossman, Jordan Eaton and Elle Davidson on the panel ‘HOME: ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE’ as part of the @home_as_country Australian Pavilion public program at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Thanks to @home_as_country Creative Sphere for the invitation to contribute to this important conversation exploring future practice and the role of First Nations representation in architectural design and education.

@utsdab

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21

Masters

21

Exhibitions

6

Lectures

28

Publications

16

Research

8

Archive

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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

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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

#repost @utsdab Big congrats to the 2025 Australia

#repost @utsdab Big congrats to the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Student Architecture Award winners! 🎉

Hosted at the University of Technology Sydney, this year’s awards celebrated bold ideas, strong narratives, and socially engaged design. We are proud to see our students shine:

NSW Architectural Technologies Award
- Award – Cheera Montriwat and Neha Kayastha

Special Commendation for Social Impact
- Commendation – Tyler Smith and Miles Agius

University of Technology Sydney
- History & Theory Prize – James Bell
- Construction & Practice Prize – Claudia Koks
- Graduate of the Year (Master’s Program) – Ricky Gagliardi
- Graduate of the Year (Bachelor’s Program) – Claudia Koks

Incredible work from the next generation of architects!

We are happy to announce an upcoming Master of Arc

We are happy to announce an upcoming Master of Architecture block mode global design studio:

Quantifying Quality of Urban Space: A Generative Approach
Dr. Mohammed Makki @m_a_k_k_i
with SJB and Abu Dhabi University @aboutsjb @abudhabiuni

mArch 12cp Global Design Studio 2025

The utility of quantitative data sets in the design of urban space is critical to achieving a strong understanding of the environmental and climatic conditions that the urban fabric is situated within, allowing for a contextual urban response that is finely tuned to the local conditions of the site. The data sets implemented in current generative design models of urban space are primarily quantifiable metrics associated with the environment at macro-scale (climate, population density, solar gain, rainfall, etc.); although they are critical to the design of an urban space that is robust to current and future conditions, the quantification of quality is sparsely implemented in current generative models. This is primarily due to the complexity of converting qualitative understandings of urban space (usually associated with feelings, emotions, social and cultural impacts) into numeric representations. The studio explores this Quantification of Quality through the integration of qualitative data sets in both analytic and generative computational models for the design of multiple suburbs throughout Sydney. Students will work in groups and redesign neighbourhoods in Abu Dhabi, capital city of the United Arab Emirates. As part of the studio, students will travel to Abu Dhabi and collaborate with students and academics from Abu Dhabi University. The studio will also be supported by practitioners from the urban design office SJB Sydney, who will provide industry driven insight on improving the quality of urban space.

This is a 12cp block-mode Design Studio open to Master of Architecture Students
Running 17th November to 19th December, 2025 - travel dates to Abu Dhabi 7th-20th(inclusive), pre-sessions (UTS campus + zoom) 22nd-26th September.
Info session Wednesday 4th June 1pm (zoom link via CANVAS)
EOI due 9pm Wednesday 11th June (instructions via CANVAS)

Proud to see members of our UTS Architecture commu

Proud to see members of our UTS Architecture community contributing to such an important conversation. @davepigram @jo.kinni @shannon_foster444 @bangawarra @supermanoeuvre @iainmaxmaxwell

#repost @institute_architects_aus It’s National Reconciliation Week (NRW), with the 2025 theme of “Bridging Now to Next,” reflecting the ongoing connection between past, present and future.

It is worth highlighting how Dave Pigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster explore how to align designing with County and designing for climate change using technology.

“This article explores the productive synergies between design for climate and design for Country, and the ways that computation can contribute meaningfully. Our context is a world experiencing multiple crises (climate, biodiversity loss, equity) and a discipline (architecture) that has historically reinvented itself by embracing the transformative potential demanded (and offered) by such challenges. We frame these lesser discussed use cases of computation via three case studies: a robotic re-enactment of a place-based craft, a system of earth-cast vaults, and a pavilion constructed from minimally processed tree forks.” – Dave Pigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster

Architecture Bulletin | Technology: AI and Architecture | 2025

Read the full article by Dave Pigram @davepigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell @iainmaxmaxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster @bangawarra with the link in bio.

NSW Chapter members receive the printed copy of the Architecture Bulletin as part of their membership.

Pictured: Gibba Gunya earthen vaults. Doug and Wolf Visualisation

#ArchitectureDesign #Architecture #Architect #AustralianArchitecture #Design #InteriorDesign #ContemporaryArchitecture #Architects #AustralianArchitects #NSWArchitecture #SydneyArchitecture #AffordableHousing #NSWarchitecture #artificialintelligence #AI #nrw2025 #Reconciliation #BridgingNowtoNext #NRW

We’re so proud to see our students’ work featu

We’re so proud to see our students’ work featured in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. As part of this year’s exhibition, HOME, the students responded by expressing what home means to them — through Indigenous-led design, storytelling, and objects (Living Belongings) that reflect deep connections to Country, culture and community.

@home_as_country @utslandscape @utsdab

UTS Architecture academics Matte Ager-McConnell an

UTS Architecture academics Matte Ager-McConnell and Dr Endriana Audisho were privileged to join Dr Michael Mossman, Jordan Eaton and Elle Davidson on the panel ‘HOME: ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE’ as part of the @home_as_country Australian Pavilion public program at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Thanks to @home_as_country Creative Sphere for the invitation to contribute to this important conversation exploring future practice and the role of First Nations representation in architectural design and education.

@utsdab

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Lectures WAI Architecture Think Tank – Loudreading in the Post-Colonial Landscapes August 13th 3:37 AM

Masters Architecture – Lonesome Stranger June 19th 12:25 AM

Lectures Baukunst – Architecture as Language September 23rd 1:40 AM

Highlights Kangaroo Island Ecological Infrastructure – Jordan Bamford November 6th 5:52 AM

Lectures Richard Stampton in conversation September 2nd 2:53 AM

Undergraduate Landscape – Old Growth Still June 19th 1:54 AM

Publications Oe House at DOMA April 1st 5:05 AM

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Lectures Common Accounts – The products of the American academia August 19th 2:55 AM

Highlights The Island – Joel Spring November 6th 4:24 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

#repost @utsdab Big congrats to the 2025 Australia

#repost @utsdab Big congrats to the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Student Architecture Award winners! 🎉

Hosted at the University of Technology Sydney, this year’s awards celebrated bold ideas, strong narratives, and socially engaged design. We are proud to see our students shine:

NSW Architectural Technologies Award
- Award – Cheera Montriwat and Neha Kayastha

Special Commendation for Social Impact
- Commendation – Tyler Smith and Miles Agius

University of Technology Sydney
- History & Theory Prize – James Bell
- Construction & Practice Prize – Claudia Koks
- Graduate of the Year (Master’s Program) – Ricky Gagliardi
- Graduate of the Year (Bachelor’s Program) – Claudia Koks

Incredible work from the next generation of architects!

We are happy to announce an upcoming Master of Arc

We are happy to announce an upcoming Master of Architecture block mode global design studio:

Quantifying Quality of Urban Space: A Generative Approach
Dr. Mohammed Makki @m_a_k_k_i
with SJB and Abu Dhabi University @aboutsjb @abudhabiuni

mArch 12cp Global Design Studio 2025

The utility of quantitative data sets in the design of urban space is critical to achieving a strong understanding of the environmental and climatic conditions that the urban fabric is situated within, allowing for a contextual urban response that is finely tuned to the local conditions of the site. The data sets implemented in current generative design models of urban space are primarily quantifiable metrics associated with the environment at macro-scale (climate, population density, solar gain, rainfall, etc.); although they are critical to the design of an urban space that is robust to current and future conditions, the quantification of quality is sparsely implemented in current generative models. This is primarily due to the complexity of converting qualitative understandings of urban space (usually associated with feelings, emotions, social and cultural impacts) into numeric representations. The studio explores this Quantification of Quality through the integration of qualitative data sets in both analytic and generative computational models for the design of multiple suburbs throughout Sydney. Students will work in groups and redesign neighbourhoods in Abu Dhabi, capital city of the United Arab Emirates. As part of the studio, students will travel to Abu Dhabi and collaborate with students and academics from Abu Dhabi University. The studio will also be supported by practitioners from the urban design office SJB Sydney, who will provide industry driven insight on improving the quality of urban space.

This is a 12cp block-mode Design Studio open to Master of Architecture Students
Running 17th November to 19th December, 2025 - travel dates to Abu Dhabi 7th-20th(inclusive), pre-sessions (UTS campus + zoom) 22nd-26th September.
Info session Wednesday 4th June 1pm (zoom link via CANVAS)
EOI due 9pm Wednesday 11th June (instructions via CANVAS)

Proud to see members of our UTS Architecture commu

Proud to see members of our UTS Architecture community contributing to such an important conversation. @davepigram @jo.kinni @shannon_foster444 @bangawarra @supermanoeuvre @iainmaxmaxwell

#repost @institute_architects_aus It’s National Reconciliation Week (NRW), with the 2025 theme of “Bridging Now to Next,” reflecting the ongoing connection between past, present and future.

It is worth highlighting how Dave Pigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster explore how to align designing with County and designing for climate change using technology.

“This article explores the productive synergies between design for climate and design for Country, and the ways that computation can contribute meaningfully. Our context is a world experiencing multiple crises (climate, biodiversity loss, equity) and a discipline (architecture) that has historically reinvented itself by embracing the transformative potential demanded (and offered) by such challenges. We frame these lesser discussed use cases of computation via three case studies: a robotic re-enactment of a place-based craft, a system of earth-cast vaults, and a pavilion constructed from minimally processed tree forks.” – Dave Pigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster

Architecture Bulletin | Technology: AI and Architecture | 2025

Read the full article by Dave Pigram @davepigram, Iain (Max) Maxwell @iainmaxmaxwell, Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, and Shannon Foster @bangawarra with the link in bio.

NSW Chapter members receive the printed copy of the Architecture Bulletin as part of their membership.

Pictured: Gibba Gunya earthen vaults. Doug and Wolf Visualisation

#ArchitectureDesign #Architecture #Architect #AustralianArchitecture #Design #InteriorDesign #ContemporaryArchitecture #Architects #AustralianArchitects #NSWArchitecture #SydneyArchitecture #AffordableHousing #NSWarchitecture #artificialintelligence #AI #nrw2025 #Reconciliation #BridgingNowtoNext #NRW

We’re so proud to see our students’ work featu

We’re so proud to see our students’ work featured in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. As part of this year’s exhibition, HOME, the students responded by expressing what home means to them — through Indigenous-led design, storytelling, and objects (Living Belongings) that reflect deep connections to Country, culture and community.

@home_as_country @utslandscape @utsdab

UTS Architecture academics Matte Ager-McConnell an

UTS Architecture academics Matte Ager-McConnell and Dr Endriana Audisho were privileged to join Dr Michael Mossman, Jordan Eaton and Elle Davidson on the panel ‘HOME: ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE’ as part of the @home_as_country Australian Pavilion public program at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Thanks to @home_as_country Creative Sphere for the invitation to contribute to this important conversation exploring future practice and the role of First Nations representation in architectural design and education.

@utsdab

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

All

Highlights

25

Undergraduate

21

Masters

21

Exhibitions

6

Lectures

28

Publications

16

Research

8

Archive

18

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

Research October 23rd 2020

PhD – Architectures of the Dirty Real: Projects of Affective Realism in Architectural and Landscape Culture

Andrew Toland, PhD (conferred)

Supervisor: Professor Charles Rice

If, as some commentators claim, we are now living in an age of ‘post-truth’, ‘post-fact’ and ‘post-reality’, the past several decades of architectural and landscape architectural culture offer clues to the trajectory that brought us here. This PhD traces the genealogies of certain debates around ‘realism’, ‘reality’ and ‘the real’ in these fields to illustrate how a surprisingly widespread, yet little acknowledged, set of interconnected conceptual and aesthetic codes produced a view of the world in which everything could be simultaneously both ‘real’ and ‘constructed’, and within which conceptual, aesthetic and affective experience are inextricable from scientific and political-economic ‘realities’.

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