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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

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Australian Dream

Jack Gillbanks, Building Research Workshop

@jackgillbanks @building_research_workshop

mArch studio

The single-family household is the foundation of the Australian dream. With the financialisation of housing, that dream increasingly resembles a fantasy.

Accepting the material, economic and regulatory realities of the construction industry, we will develop models of increased density on a typical suburban lot while asserting pleasure, not efficiency, as the fundamental organising principle of domestic life.

Through the study of forms of life that challenge orthodoxy we will be exposed to new patterns of habitation, learning from amongst other things neolithic dwellings, medieval scottish castles, bourgeois Milanese Villas, American utopian communes, and London artist squats.

Our typological foundation is that distinctly Australian typology, the six-pack apartment block — a three-storey building containing six apartments. Born between planning anomaly and property speculation it has rarely been the subject of architectural interest.
We will reconsider the six-pack by closely examining the plan as an instrument for the organisation of life — a modest proposal intensely interrogated, from the skirting board to the suburban block.

IMAGE: The Secret Life of Us, Southern Star Entertainment

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

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

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture A

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture AUTUMN 2026

Australian Dream

Jack Gillbanks, Building Research Workshop

@jackgillbanks @building_research_workshop

mArch studio

The single-family household is the foundation of the Australian dream. With the financialisation of housing, that dream increasingly resembles a fantasy.

Accepting the material, economic and regulatory realities of the construction industry, we will develop models of increased density on a typical suburban lot while asserting pleasure, not efficiency, as the fundamental organising principle of domestic life.

Through the study of forms of life that challenge orthodoxy we will be exposed to new patterns of habitation, learning from amongst other things neolithic dwellings, medieval scottish castles, bourgeois Milanese Villas, American utopian communes, and London artist squats.

Our typological foundation is that distinctly Australian typology, the six-pack apartment block — a three-storey building containing six apartments. Born between planning anomaly and property speculation it has rarely been the subject of architectural interest.
We will reconsider the six-pack by closely examining the plan as an instrument for the organisation of life — a modest proposal intensely interrogated, from the skirting board to the suburban block.

IMAGE: The Secret Life of Us, Southern Star Entertainment

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

0

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Lectures Talking Water – A public lecture by Jane Wolff August 13th 2024

Lectures Maintaining Adaptation: Two Decades of Public Sensemaking around Urban Water Following Hurricane Katrina – Public Talk by Dr. Joshua A. Lewis October 22nd 2024

Lectures Symposium: Echoes of Empire February 24th 2025

Lectures In The Round: A Conversation on Grounding Energy with Rosalea Monacella August 5th 2024

Lectures Living in Symbiosis – an Archaeology of the Future: Public Lecture by Lina Ghotmeh August 28th 2025

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Lectures Pride in Practice | SONA Lecture Series x AWP x UTS August 6th 2025

Lectures WINHANGANHA Film Screening – Jazz Money September 26th 2024

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