MAJOR: RMIT ARCHITECTURE GRADUATING PROJECTS 2019-2022

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. 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. With Contributions of Professor Vivian Mitsogianni, Amy Muir, Dr John Doyle, Dr Emma Jackson, Helen Duong, Tim Pyke, Professor Roland Snooks, Professor Alisa Andrasek, Simone Koch, Dr Peter Brew, Vicky Lam, Dr Michael Spooner, Liam Oxlade, Mietta Mullaly, Caleb Ka Lok Lee, Flynn Eady-Jennings, Nicole Kirby, Riley Pelham-Thorman, Brooke Barker, Matthew Tibballs, Lachlan Wiles, Youjia Huang, Wang Jingyuan, Meagan Brooks, Benjamin Strong, Jacqueline Tang, Akash Vazirani, Shuai Tang, Xu Tang, Jitesh Sapra, Alan Ho Kyeong Kim, Aimee Howard, Nic Morgante, Nicola Cortese, Darcie Vella, Jennifer Chen, Briony Ewing, Ruby Lang, Matthew Lochert, Harry Bardoel, James McLennan, Andrea Milovanovic, Zachary Bunston, Rebecca Boland, Alexandra Waldron-Clark, Jessica Simons, Christopher Buchhorn, Eilidh Ross, Longge Zhang, Gavrila Mandy Kahuni, Guled Elyas, Justin Chong, David Mundattuchundayil Thomas, Senesios Frangos, Leon Koutoulas, Temitope Adesina, Emma Ka Wing Li, Michelle Zhang, Tidus Lok Tin Shing, Natalie Angus, Stephanie Pahnis, Jack Murray, Laura Szyman, Dylan Findlay.