UTS School of Architecture

SWAMP CAMP visit to Wild Plant Rescue Nursery in Katoomba for the Masters of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Students. Learning in depth about seed collection and horticulture’s role in ecology restoration. Thank you to the amazing volunteers who showed us around and let us into the exclusive fernery! Plant of the month was my favourite grass, Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (button grass). We finished the day with a rainy walk through Popes Glen Swamp in Blackheath. It’s such a joy to teach this incredible group of students. They all lead with curiosity and respect as they follow threads of design, critique and reflection. Everyday is a blessing!

What are you mArching for? 🏛️ Join us for an exclusive Master of Architecture Info Session designed for final-year Bachelor of Design in Architecture students ready to take the next step in their academic journey. Hear from Brooke Jackson, Director of the Master of Architecture Program as she shares insights into the vision, structure and opportunities within the Master of Architecture, and discover how the program can support your pathway towards professional registration. Engage in meaningful conversations about your study options and explore how you can align your postgraduate experience with your career aspirations. 📅 22 April 2026, Wednesday 5-6pm 📍City campus The Guthrie Theatre, Building 6 (CB06.03.028) Register here: https://www.uts.edu.au/events/master-of-architecture-info-session

Congratulations to all our winners at the 2026 FDS Research and Engagement Awards! FDS Student Engagement Award: Prof Emily McDaniel, Matte Ager-McConnell, and Dr Endriana Audisho FDS Inclusive Innovation Award: Samantha Donnelly FDS Community Engagement Award: Luke Tipene and Christina Deluchi FDS HDR Best Thesis Award: Dr Linda Buhagiar supervised by Dr Linda Matthews and Dr Lawrence Wallen @utsfds @endriana @matte.mcconnell @emilymc_d @samanthadonnelly1111 @lptip @christinaalexandradeluchi @linda_matthews_architecture @lawrence_wallen

@vannyweldy ’s day as an architecture student at UTS! ✨ #architecture #architecturestudent #universityoftechnologysydney #sydneyaustralia #UTS

Please join us for a lecture by Prof. Rafiq Azam (FIAB), Principal architect of SHATOTTO architecture for green living from Bangladesh. Prof Azam will introduce his new book Rafiq Azam – Old Dhaka New Storey: Architecture in Bangladesh and discuss several decades of his award winning architectural and urban practice in Bangladesh. Wednesday March 25, 2026​, 6:30pm - 8:00pm​ Register via the link in our bio.

In November 2025, in my capacity as Public Programs Director, I had the privilege of once again overseeing the UTS School of Architecture End of Year Show, presented as part of the inaugural Faculty of Design and Society Showcase @utsfds It was a joy to collaborate with the brilliant mori @mori__earth (Umi Graham and Janelle Woo), whose thoughtful curation brought together an inspiring body of work from our students across Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture. So generous, rigorous and full of possibility. A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors who made the exhibition possible: Platinum Sponsors: NSW Architects Registration Board & @acoufelt Gold Sponsors: @hassell_studio @stukelarchitecture @aboutsjb @government.architect.nsw Silver Sponsors: @ptwarchitects @nettletontribe @brickworksbp @steensenvarming @batessmart @jmd.design @stantonarchitects @oculusstudios @moir_studio @architectusau And a special thank you to Hamish McIntosh @hamishmcintosh for the extraordinary photographs that captured the exhibition so beautifully So proud of our students 🤝

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 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 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 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 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 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