Reframing Design: Deconstruction and Reuse in the Context of Sydney’s Built Environment - EOYS UTS School of Architecture

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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How is architecture tested, judged and honoured, a

How is architecture tested, judged and honoured, and what does recognition do to the discipline? Across eleven days, the University of Technology Sydney is hosting a fantastic series of events that celebrates Architecture, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Architecture Awards. All events are held in UTS, and all are free.

01 Aga Khan Architecture Awards Exhibition - 1–11 Sept (Free admission- No registration needed)

02 Public Lecture by Aga Khan Director Farrokh Derakhshani - Wed 2 Sept (Free admission – Link in bio)

03 The life of a building Panel discussion, moderated by Professor Anthony Burke - Thu 3 Sept (Free admission – Link in bio)

#ArchitectureRecognised #AgaKhanAward #UTS #SydneyArchitecture #AKDN #ArchitectureEvents #UTS #Architecture #PublicLecture

Merrit Bucholz of Bucholz McEvoy Architects will b

Merrit Bucholz of Bucholz McEvoy Architects will be lecturing for the mArch Introduction to Professional Development (IPD) this Friday 1-2pm

@bucholzmcevoy

Climate Experiments : Crafting Civic Architecture

Bucholz McEvoy Architects began with an international competition win: a civic building for Fingal, crafted in response to an ambitious low energy brief for a newly created Irish county, in 1996. Since then we have completed a number of civic buildings in Ireland and most recently in Toronto Canada. Civic buildings, publicly owned and maintained, have been for us a site of experimentation for how architecture responds to civic identity and climate, measured in use over time. To do this the buildings are crafted, resource efficient legible assemblies, designed to be understood and interacted with.

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Seld-Directed Studio

with Brooke Jackson of @utsarchitecture + @informal_architects

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.

Application via EOI > check CANVAS announcements for details

IMAGE: Tessa Iversen, The Intersection of Heritage and the Housing Crisis_Self-Directed Studio AUTUMN 2026

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Designing for a burnt-out society, Take Two

with Prof. Gerard Reinmuth @gerardreinmuth of @utsarchitecture + @terroir_

Over the past six years I have developed a series of nested theoretical positions in studio at UTS, the result of which is three books - Instruments, Third Spaces and Territories – that together form something of a manifesto for architecture in the age of neoliberalism. However, the “problem” of neoliberalism and these attempts to redirect the impacts of capital through alternate spatial propositions appears quaint in the current context where we are subject to a constant assault of distressing content and contexts.

Fifteen years ago, Byung-Chul Han pre-empted what we now call a lack of “social cohesion” in his book, The Burnt-Out Society. We ask if architecture has any role in this and can offer any respite. To assist us, we triangulate the IPCC’s intensified focus on sufficiency, Helmut Rosa’s concept of resonance, and Jem Blendell’s preparation for collapse, staking out a terrain for a burnt-out society to recover. The place we will test our hypotheses will be Copenhagen, arguably the happiest society in the world and specifically, at Refshaleoen, a former industrial area at the edge of the city that is the hottest redevelopment project happening in the city at present.

Application via EOI > check CANVAS announcements for details

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Burial / Quarantine Studio

with Ursula Meyer @u.meyer @holding_studio
and Rory Jamison @rgd.jamieson

A burial ground, overgrown, bowered with flannel flowers, looks back across the water to the city.

This studio asks how architecture can tell a story: how we can navigate entangled narratives of site, their commonalities, their frictions; stories sacred, mundane, and profane; to reckon with the haunting.

We start with Eve Tuck and C. Ree’s Glossary of Haunting, a text ‘about righting (and sometimes wronging) wrongs; about hauntings [...] and what they might mean for understanding settler colonialism, ceremony, revenge, and decolonization.’ We take this thinking to Car-rang-gel, to North Head’s Third Quarantine Cemetery. Students will use landscape thinking to read the critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub, an ancient ecology growing from
century-old graves and their associated stories of material sourcing, migration, imported design culture, languages, lineages and plants.

We will be thinking about the intimacy of burial on unknown soil. We will tactically dismantle ‘heritage’ structures and in turn look to ruderal ecologies to learn how to live among the ruins. This studio asks whether belonging can be found through looking-after, and what our reciprocal obligation to the Country that cares for us is.

We will spend time with questions of sickness, grief, death practices, and burial, and invite a depth of engagement from students who join us.

On Gaimaragal Country.

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

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Highlights

10

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

5

Research

2

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

How is architecture tested, judged and honoured, a

How is architecture tested, judged and honoured, and what does recognition do to the discipline? Across eleven days, the University of Technology Sydney is hosting a fantastic series of events that celebrates Architecture, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Architecture Awards. All events are held in UTS, and all are free.

01 Aga Khan Architecture Awards Exhibition - 1–11 Sept (Free admission- No registration needed)

02 Public Lecture by Aga Khan Director Farrokh Derakhshani - Wed 2 Sept (Free admission – Link in bio)

03 The life of a building Panel discussion, moderated by Professor Anthony Burke - Thu 3 Sept (Free admission – Link in bio)

#ArchitectureRecognised #AgaKhanAward #UTS #SydneyArchitecture #AKDN #ArchitectureEvents #UTS #Architecture #PublicLecture

Merrit Bucholz of Bucholz McEvoy Architects will b

Merrit Bucholz of Bucholz McEvoy Architects will be lecturing for the mArch Introduction to Professional Development (IPD) this Friday 1-2pm

@bucholzmcevoy

Climate Experiments : Crafting Civic Architecture

Bucholz McEvoy Architects began with an international competition win: a civic building for Fingal, crafted in response to an ambitious low energy brief for a newly created Irish county, in 1996. Since then we have completed a number of civic buildings in Ireland and most recently in Toronto Canada. Civic buildings, publicly owned and maintained, have been for us a site of experimentation for how architecture responds to civic identity and climate, measured in use over time. To do this the buildings are crafted, resource efficient legible assemblies, designed to be understood and interacted with.

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Seld-Directed Studio

with Brooke Jackson of @utsarchitecture + @informal_architects

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.

Application via EOI > check CANVAS announcements for details

IMAGE: Tessa Iversen, The Intersection of Heritage and the Housing Crisis_Self-Directed Studio AUTUMN 2026

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Designing for a burnt-out society, Take Two

with Prof. Gerard Reinmuth @gerardreinmuth of @utsarchitecture + @terroir_

Over the past six years I have developed a series of nested theoretical positions in studio at UTS, the result of which is three books - Instruments, Third Spaces and Territories – that together form something of a manifesto for architecture in the age of neoliberalism. However, the “problem” of neoliberalism and these attempts to redirect the impacts of capital through alternate spatial propositions appears quaint in the current context where we are subject to a constant assault of distressing content and contexts.

Fifteen years ago, Byung-Chul Han pre-empted what we now call a lack of “social cohesion” in his book, The Burnt-Out Society. We ask if architecture has any role in this and can offer any respite. To assist us, we triangulate the IPCC’s intensified focus on sufficiency, Helmut Rosa’s concept of resonance, and Jem Blendell’s preparation for collapse, staking out a terrain for a burnt-out society to recover. The place we will test our hypotheses will be Copenhagen, arguably the happiest society in the world and specifically, at Refshaleoen, a former industrial area at the edge of the city that is the hottest redevelopment project happening in the city at present.

Application via EOI > check CANVAS announcements for details

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Burial / Quarantine Studio

with Ursula Meyer @u.meyer @holding_studio
and Rory Jamison @rgd.jamieson

A burial ground, overgrown, bowered with flannel flowers, looks back across the water to the city.

This studio asks how architecture can tell a story: how we can navigate entangled narratives of site, their commonalities, their frictions; stories sacred, mundane, and profane; to reckon with the haunting.

We start with Eve Tuck and C. Ree’s Glossary of Haunting, a text ‘about righting (and sometimes wronging) wrongs; about hauntings [...] and what they might mean for understanding settler colonialism, ceremony, revenge, and decolonization.’ We take this thinking to Car-rang-gel, to North Head’s Third Quarantine Cemetery. Students will use landscape thinking to read the critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub, an ancient ecology growing from
century-old graves and their associated stories of material sourcing, migration, imported design culture, languages, lineages and plants.

We will be thinking about the intimacy of burial on unknown soil. We will tactically dismantle ‘heritage’ structures and in turn look to ruderal ecologies to learn how to live among the ruins. This studio asks whether belonging can be found through looking-after, and what our reciprocal obligation to the Country that cares for us is.

We will spend time with questions of sickness, grief, death practices, and burial, and invite a depth of engagement from students who join us.

On Gaimaragal Country.

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

EOYS UTS School of Architecture

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10

Undergraduate

23

Masters

18

Exhibitions

4

Lectures

16

Publications

5

Research

2

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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702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

T. +61 2 9514 8024

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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

How is architecture tested, judged and honoured, a

How is architecture tested, judged and honoured, and what does recognition do to the discipline? Across eleven days, the University of Technology Sydney is hosting a fantastic series of events that celebrates Architecture, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Architecture Awards. All events are held in UTS, and all are free.

01 Aga Khan Architecture Awards Exhibition - 1–11 Sept (Free admission- No registration needed)

02 Public Lecture by Aga Khan Director Farrokh Derakhshani - Wed 2 Sept (Free admission – Link in bio)

03 The life of a building Panel discussion, moderated by Professor Anthony Burke - Thu 3 Sept (Free admission – Link in bio)

#ArchitectureRecognised #AgaKhanAward #UTS #SydneyArchitecture #AKDN #ArchitectureEvents #UTS #Architecture #PublicLecture

Merrit Bucholz of Bucholz McEvoy Architects will b

Merrit Bucholz of Bucholz McEvoy Architects will be lecturing for the mArch Introduction to Professional Development (IPD) this Friday 1-2pm

@bucholzmcevoy

Climate Experiments : Crafting Civic Architecture

Bucholz McEvoy Architects began with an international competition win: a civic building for Fingal, crafted in response to an ambitious low energy brief for a newly created Irish county, in 1996. Since then we have completed a number of civic buildings in Ireland and most recently in Toronto Canada. Civic buildings, publicly owned and maintained, have been for us a site of experimentation for how architecture responds to civic identity and climate, measured in use over time. To do this the buildings are crafted, resource efficient legible assemblies, designed to be understood and interacted with.

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Seld-Directed Studio

with Brooke Jackson of @utsarchitecture + @informal_architects

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.

Application via EOI > check CANVAS announcements for details

IMAGE: Tessa Iversen, The Intersection of Heritage and the Housing Crisis_Self-Directed Studio AUTUMN 2026

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Designing for a burnt-out society, Take Two

with Prof. Gerard Reinmuth @gerardreinmuth of @utsarchitecture + @terroir_

Over the past six years I have developed a series of nested theoretical positions in studio at UTS, the result of which is three books - Instruments, Third Spaces and Territories – that together form something of a manifesto for architecture in the age of neoliberalism. However, the “problem” of neoliberalism and these attempts to redirect the impacts of capital through alternate spatial propositions appears quaint in the current context where we are subject to a constant assault of distressing content and contexts.

Fifteen years ago, Byung-Chul Han pre-empted what we now call a lack of “social cohesion” in his book, The Burnt-Out Society. We ask if architecture has any role in this and can offer any respite. To assist us, we triangulate the IPCC’s intensified focus on sufficiency, Helmut Rosa’s concept of resonance, and Jem Blendell’s preparation for collapse, staking out a terrain for a burnt-out society to recover. The place we will test our hypotheses will be Copenhagen, arguably the happiest society in the world and specifically, at Refshaleoen, a former industrial area at the edge of the city that is the hottest redevelopment project happening in the city at present.

Application via EOI > check CANVAS announcements for details

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture D

What are we mArching for? Master of Architecture Design Studio Lineup SPRING 2026

Burial / Quarantine Studio

with Ursula Meyer @u.meyer @holding_studio
and Rory Jamison @rgd.jamieson

A burial ground, overgrown, bowered with flannel flowers, looks back across the water to the city.

This studio asks how architecture can tell a story: how we can navigate entangled narratives of site, their commonalities, their frictions; stories sacred, mundane, and profane; to reckon with the haunting.

We start with Eve Tuck and C. Ree’s Glossary of Haunting, a text ‘about righting (and sometimes wronging) wrongs; about hauntings [...] and what they might mean for understanding settler colonialism, ceremony, revenge, and decolonization.’ We take this thinking to Car-rang-gel, to North Head’s Third Quarantine Cemetery. Students will use landscape thinking to read the critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub, an ancient ecology growing from
century-old graves and their associated stories of material sourcing, migration, imported design culture, languages, lineages and plants.

We will be thinking about the intimacy of burial on unknown soil. We will tactically dismantle ‘heritage’ structures and in turn look to ruderal ecologies to learn how to live among the ruins. This studio asks whether belonging can be found through looking-after, and what our reciprocal obligation to the Country that cares for us is.

We will spend time with questions of sickness, grief, death practices, and burial, and invite a depth of engagement from students who join us.

On Gaimaragal Country.

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

Masters July 9th 2025

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

Shahar Cohen & Amy Seo of Second Edition with Robert Plumb Build, Tiffany Liew, and Andrew Burges Architects

This studio delves into the examination of deconstruction and reuse of building materials within the local context of Sydney, on the lands of the Cameregal, Dharug, Dharawal, Gadi and Ku-ring-gai People.

Utilising surrounding building stock as an inventory to design with, this approach shifts the conventional design paradigm by starting with the materials in lieu of form or function, whilst seeking to unravel the potential and feasibility of this method within the local context. Students engage in a process that challenges traditional design methodologies, encouraging a thoughtful reconsideration of the built environment. The studio aims to foster a resourceful mindset by emphasising the significance of material availability. Through this exploration, participants gain insights into the practical application of deconstruction and reuse, contributing to the discourse on circular design.

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