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During her visit to the Melbourne School of Design for the Dean’s Lecture Series in October, Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, sat down with Professor Donald Bates to discuss her career beginnings, philosophy, and her award-winning works.

From spending a semester abroad at Tongji University, to reaching the finalist stage of a design competition, Lindy Huang has made the most of opportunities in her final year of undergraduate studies.

Tony Luo recently started at the Victorian Planning Authority as a Student Planner, after finishing his undergraduate studies in urban planning at Melbourne. He believes it has boundless opportunities to build positive urban outcomes for all communities and neighbourhoods and shared with us his student experience.

Leelee was always in creative endeavours in high school, so she decided to study the Bachelor of Design. Read her story.

Did you know that the Bachelor of Design offers a pathway into a number of areas in Engineering? Spatial Systems student John Darwin Oanes shares his experience so far.

First year Bachelor of Design student Nora Tal received the DELWP Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship for 2018. We caught up with her to find out how urban planning inspires her and what her experience studying the Bachelor of Design has been like so far.

Catherine Bruckard studied urban planning because she is passionate about global sustainability. During the Master of Urban Planning, she travelled to Amsterdam and Singapore for credit and she shared with us her reflections on her student experience.

Nancy (Nan) Ma reflects on her time studying at the Melbourne School of Design, and what inspired her to pursue an international career in research which has led her to undertake her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.

James Urlini was initially thinking about studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts, but after speaking with his school's career advisors and researching different courses, he chose to take the leap and apply for the Bachelor of Design and major in graphic design. He spoke to us about his student experience so far.

Sarah Chan majored in architecture in her undergraduate degree, but decided to change her focus to construction for her graduate studies. We caught up with her to find out about her experiences as a Master of Construction Management student so far, and to learn any advice she has for anyone thinking about studying at the Melbourne School of Design.

The Melbourne School of Design's newest qualification, the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Design, will be taught from 2019 onwards. We recently caught up with Dr André Stephan, coordinator of the GCED programme, to find out just how important it is for environmental design to be at the heart of all built environment disciplines in this day and age, and going forward.

Alumnus Stephen Yuen featured in this year's program for The Mental Health Services Conference in Adelaide, presenting his Master of Architecture thesis on the potential of virtual reality for therapeutic support.

Beijing is a modern city steeped in tradition that is now leaping into the cutting-edge of architecture. MSD Master of Architecture student Adrian Dong recently completed a four month internship with MAD Architects in their headquarters in China’s capital. He shared his experience with us there.

Many of us dream of living and working in New York. Earlier this year, Robert A.M. Stern Architects offered an internship, organized by RAMSA Partner and University of Melbourne alumnus Grant F. Marani, for a student from Melbourne to undertake ten weeks of paid work in their office in Midtown Manhattan.One of 24 interns and the only Australian, Master of Architecture student Hannah Puckey was this year’s successful candidate. We caught up with her when she returned to learn more about her experience.

Bona Lee relocated to Melbourne from Brisbane earlier this year to start her Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne. We caught up with her to ask about her first year experience with us.

Recent graduate Jeff Davies reports back from his burgeoning career in the property industry.

We recently chatted with 2018 Master of Architecture graduate Derek Huynh about how his career has progressed since finishing uni, and what advice he has for those thinking about studying design.

Matthew Oates moved from Lismore in northern NSW to Melbourne for the Bachelor of Design at the start of 2018. He’s pursuing a double major in Landscape Architecture and Property, and sat down with us recently to share his experience.

Your first year at university is often the toughest. Adjusting to new-found independence and being surrounded by so many people can be overwhelming, but it is also a time full of opportunity. Enter Felicity Karakiklas, a Bachelor of Design student who just finished her first year and shared with us her tips for nailing university.

Shruti Baporikar moved to Melbourne to pursue a Master of Construction Management after studying Architectural Design as an undergraduate student in Mumbai. We asked Shruti to share some of her experiences so far.

Often plans change after you start a course. For Lochlan Todd, originally from Launceston, starting work in the construction industry led him to switch majors within the Bachelor of Design. He sat down with us to share more.

Claire Woodward took a year off after high school and travelled to Canada before deciding to pursue the Bachelor of Design at The University of Melbourne. She recently shared her first year experience with us.

Charlie Rosanove made the move from Sydney last year to study the Bachelor of Design at The University of Melbourne. He sat down with us to share his first year experience.

Charlotte Miller moved from Brisbane to study the Bachelor of Environments and is now in her second year of the Master of Urban Design. We caught up with Charlotte to hear about her experiences.

Iris Fong developed a longing for green space while growing up in Hong Kong. Her passion for nature and geography led her through the Bachelor of Environments to the Master of Landscape Architecture. We caught up with Iris, now in her final year, to hear about her studies so far.

Siobhan Hudson came to the Master of Urban Design after completing undergraduate architectural studies in Sydney. We caught up with Siobhan, now in her second year at Melbourne School of Design, to hear about her experiences.

Alexia Baikie moved to Melbourne from Launceston to study the Bachelor of Environments and stayed on for the Master of Architecture. We caught up with Alexia to hear about her studies, her passion for health care and education architecture, and her hopes for the future.If you're a future student, you can speak to us at upcoming events, including one-on-one consultations in Tasmania on May 18.

After making an international engineering career at global multinational Arup, Enterprise Professor Brendon McNiven is shaping our architectural engineering curriculum.

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 at the University of Melbourne. She shared with us her family connection to the university and her student experience so far.

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.

Targol Khorram started studying architecture in Iran in 1998 and completed a Master of Urban Planning in 2015 at the University of Melbourne. She currently works as an urban designer at the City of Stonnington and leads a place making studio at the University of Melbourne. She previously worked on the Queen Victoria Market redevelopment. More recently, she was the President of Architects for Peace for two years.

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.