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Having a keen interest in computing, Kabir Sawhney originally from India, is now studying the Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne. We caught up with Kabir to talk about his student experience so far.

Ever since high school Melvin has had his mind set on architecture in pursuing a design career. But a year after coming from Indonesia to study the Bachelor of Design, Melvin decided to add Construction as a second major to his degree. Melvin spoke to us about his experience so far.

Penelope Web Gilbert is a second year Bachelor of Design student who transferred from Monash to the University of Melbourne. She shared with us her family connection to the university and her student experience so far at MSD.

Master of Landscape Architecture students Iris Fong, Wenjin Wang and Heidi Nurmio completed a three week internship with Tract Consultants, a leading planning & design practice using the professional disciplines of town planning, landscape architecture & urban design. We caught up with Wenjin to chat more about his time there.

Three MSD Master of Architecture students volunteered at the biennial Australasian Student Architecture Congress in Sydney in 2017. Rita Liao, Jinwoo Jung and Nathania Widjanarko report back on their highlights.

Antonia Besa Lehmann from the University of Melbourne as the winner of the 2018 HASSELL Travelling Scholarship - Robin Edmond Award.

Chen Shiting (Hazel) is an international student from China who is currently in her final semester of the Master of Construction Management. We had a chat with Hazel to talk about her studies so far.

Saran Kim is a Japanese international student who has just completed her first year of the Bachelor of Design. Having come from Mater Christi College in Belgrave, we caught up with Saran to chat about her experiences so far.

MSD alumna Elinor Moshe recently featured in Top 100 Women, an initiative celebrating influential women in the construction industry. The Master of Construction Management graduate shared her insights on building her career with the Top 100 Women community.

Not all our architecture graduates complete an architecture major in their bachelor degree before starting our masters program. Meet Ariani Anwar, currently employed at John Wardle Architects. She recently completed her Masters of Architecture, following a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Hispanic Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne. She is a founding editor of Inflection, the internationally published student-run journal of the Melbourne School of Design.

How did Federation Square redefine the city of Melbourne? Listen to Professor Don Bates, the man responsible for its design, in conversation with Professor Alan Pert on Federation Square, the changing face of Melbourne and what the architects of the future will need to succeed.

Lauren Murrant is the second recipient of the DELWP Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship. Hailing from Berwick, Lauren began a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University, before transferring into the Bachelor of Design where she was awarded the scholarship.

Construction management students Ian Alcazar, Liam Nuttall, Matt Thompson and James Miller travelled to Hong Kong recently to represent the University of Melbourne at the CIOB Global Student Challenge Finals, accompanied by Dr. Paolo Vaz Serra.

Laura Brown is amongst the first cohort of students to undertake the Bachelor of Design, commencing study in Semester 1, 2017 and is the first recipient of the DELWP Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship.

Australian Design Review speaks to Lola Digby-Diercks, a current graduate architect and a past student of the Nightingale Night School at The University of Melbourne. She discusses the studio and what she gained from its teachings.

Machining Aesthetics is one of the studio subjects taught in the Master of Architecture and is one of many hands-on making experiences our students use to explore their creativity at the Melbourne School of Design. Our students produce stunning digital designs, making them using our state-of-the-art Fabrication Workshop. They also get to learn how to use robots...!

Catherine Duggan (Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design) and Michael Roper(Architecture Architecture) teach the Unliveable Berlin studio, which takes masters students to the ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory in Berlin for three weeks of intensive design work.

MSD’s program of travelling studio subjects regularly take our students to India. This year Master of Architecture students took a deep dive into Ahmedabad’s famous architectural craft practices. This program of design subjects, which take our students all over the world for intensive experiences of design in other cultures, are only on offer at the University of Melbourne.

Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Andrew Saniga, talks about his outback studio Terra Oddities and watercolour stunts at dawn.

In October 2016, the exhibition Pholiota Unlocked took place in the MSD’s Dulux Gallery. Master of Architecture students built a small house in the gallery space which was knit together by a beautifully unique brick system.

This piece is part of a series of interviews and pieces co-produced with the Australian Design Review. Here we speak to Elliot Summers, who graduated from MSD’s Master of Landscape Architecture course in 2012 and has since gone on to establish his own studio, Polygon, via which he has overseen the development of over 40 designs for play centres, residential and public spaces. He also teaches in his field at both Melbourne University and RMIT.

This is part of a series of interviews and pieces co-produced by the Australian Design Review and the Melbourne School of Design. Here we speak to Danielle Savio, who graduated from MSD’s Master of Architecture course in 2010 and is now a project coordinator at Brookfield Multiplex. She has recently worked on NAB D2 700 Bourke Street, the University of Melbourne: Faculty of ABP and the Monash Stage 1 Residential Project. In her spare time, she co-runs Gazella, a blog for women in the built environment.

This is part of a series of interviews and pieces co-produced by the Australian Design Review and the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). Here we speak to Dr Karen Burns, senior lecturer in Architectural Design at MSD. She is a frequent contributor to academic and professional architectural journals, a critic, and public commentator on issues in contemporary architecture. She is also the co-editor of Parlour, a website building discussion and exchange on women, equity and architecture.

Danielle Mileo is a recent graduate of the 300-point Master of Architecture program, which is for students who have studied a prior degree outside the built environment disciplines (career changers), at Melbourne School of Design (MSD). She is an artist and aspiring architect, and travelled to New Zealand in 2016 to install her thesis as part of FESTA – the Festival of Transitional Architecture.