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RMIT Architecture is interested in ideas-led venturous design exploration that aspires to contribute to the future of our discipline and an increasingly complex world.

This publication contains a selection of RMIT Master of Architecture independent graduating projects from seven semesters between 2019 and 2022. It seeks to capture the ideas, pre-occupations, motivations and propositions of this cohort of architectural designers who are searching for new ideas and possibilities through design and by designing.

RMIT Architecture is interested in ideas-led venturous design exploration that aspires to contribute to the future of our discipline and an increasingly complex world. Architecture schools should be concerned with experimentation that challenges the orthodoxies of the discipline, as well as our underlying assumptions about what architecture is and what it should do next. Architecture schools should point towards possible futures not yet evident within existing understandings of the discipline or the profession. The significant challenges of our time are wicked problems, which require new ideas and transdisciplinary approaches. Architects need to find ways to contribute, be effective and have agency in situations in which architecture – in its expanded definition – is often considered to be a peripheral contributor.

PROFESSOR VIVIAN MITSOGIANNI (Architect ARBV) is Dean of the School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne. Vivian was the Associate Dean and Head of RMIT Architecture (2013-2022) and is a partner in M@ STUDIO Architects.


TOM MURATORE (Architect ARBV) an Associate Lecturer at RMIT Architecture in the School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne

DR JOHN DOYLE (Architect ARBV) is Associate Dean and Head of RMIT Architecture in the School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne. John was the Master of Architecture Program Manager (2013–2022). John is a partner at Common.

AMY MUIR (Architect ARBV) is a Lecturer and the Master of Architecture Major Project Coordinator (2019-) at RMIT Architecture in the School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne. Amy is director of MUIR Architecture.

MIETTA MULLALY completed the RMIT Master of Architecture Major Project in Semester 1, 2021.