Architecture at Monash

Architecture at Monash is an innovative program that engages with practice, industry, and the broader community. It seeks to advance the contemporary practice of architecture through social and environmental sustainability. The program is characterised by its location with an art and design faculty that is focused on architecture as a creative discipline.  Connections are established between architecture, art and design, enabling students to establish a creative network by studying alongside industrial designers, painters, sculptors, interior architects, glass artists and more. Architecture at Monash fosters design as a mode of thinking, seeing and working.

Monash recognises architecture as the core discipline of the built environment, and has developed a program with a creative vision underpinned by the Faculty’s broad philosophical framework and its extensive studio and technical resources. The Architecture program at Monash grew out of an extensive feasibility study and industry dialogue, including consultation with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and a distinguished Advisory Group of eminent architectural practitioners and educators. It seeks to build on Melbourne’s strong position, both in Australia and globally, as a ‘hot spot’ for innovative architecture.

Architecture at Monash emphasises the important contribution of research and practice to teaching. Students seeking to progress into higher research degrees will be encouraged to undertake research by design ‘in’ architecture. This means carrying out creative and innovative work at the cutting-edge of architecture. This research philosophy achieves a close research-teaching nexus, where the experimental work of faculty members and other researchers is brought into the studio.