RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design

Design Studios, Studio Leaders / Tutors

Brent Allpress is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT Architecture. His research areas include digital ornamental practices, adaptive reuse, urban data economies and OSIntel investigative practices.

Design Studio: Alter

Associate Professor Dr. Richard Black is a registered architect, educator, author and Associate Professor with RMIT. His teaching, design practice and research activities explore overlaps and adjacencies between architecture and landscape.

Design Studio: Upside-down Country

Dr. Emma Jackson is an architect with an abiding interest in earth science. She worked as a field assistant to acclaimed naturalist Harry Butler in the Northwest of Australia while studying Science and Architecture at the University of WA. Emma completed her practice-based Phd in 2019 at RMIT.

Design Studio: Hammer & Tong

Laura Bailey is an architect working at WOWOWA, she has previously worked at ARM architecture as an Associate. Her experience is predominantly within the cultural and educational sectors. Laura has taught both Masters and Bachelors studios at RMIT since 2020.

Design Studio: The Architect

Paul van Herk is an architect and current PhD candidate at RMIT. He has worked as an Architect and urban designer at MCR (Melb.), MVRDV (Rotterdam), Adjaye Associates (Accra) and Snøhetta (Melb.). He is a founding director of urban design studio EXCX (Melb.) which undertakes public art, urban research and adaptive re-use projects.

Design Studio: Like, Literally

Beau de Belle is a VC Research Fellow at RMIT and Gamilaraay Muri from Tamworth exploring research by translating Gamilaraay male Traditional Knowledges into contemporary architecture and design.

Design Studio: Hammer & Tong

Arif Mokhtar is an Associate (Design) with Elenberg Fraser and the sector leader of the commercial portfolio. Arif has worked across a diverse range of sectors including, multiresidential, commercial and hospitality, delivering some of Melbourne’s most recognisable buildings.

Design Studio: Regenerative Identities

Kevin Huynh is a Graduate at Elenberg Fraser. His interest in architecture is the process of designing innovative and sustainable spaces coupled with the use of emerging technologies, virtual reality, and different kinds of fabrication techniques (3D printing + model making) to communicate a design vision.

Design Studio: Regenerative Identities

Senesios Frangos is a Graduate of architecture and RMIT Architecture alumnus, and Project Designer at ARM Architecture, with 8 years of practice in Melbourne and Barcelona. His interests span across the discipline of architecture and its role in the contemporary world.

Design Studio: Here, There & Everywhere

Dale Schlosser is a registered architects & associate at NH Architecture, working on various public & commercial projects. He co-led three lower pool design studios with Michael Strack with a focus on heterogeneity in the city.

Design Studio: 2oup

Estelle Roman (CPHD GSAP LFA) Project Architect (environmental) at Elenberg Fraser. She has worked on largescale projects for over 10 years. Estelle is passionate in delivering inspiring projects in line with her values of social justice and ecological restoration. A regenerative design specialist, Estelle is shaping a transition to a net-zero regenerative future.

Design Studio: Regenerative Identities

Kathleen Bainbridge is an Associate at Elenberg Fraser, working on Adaptive Reuse projects and sites. Though extensive master planning studies to assess typology, compliance implications and construction times, we have led our clients through the journey of the emerging typology.

Design Studio: Regenerative Identities

Jack Mansfield-Hung is a Graduate of architecture at Kerstin Thompson Architects. He has led design studios at RMIT Architecture and the University of Melbourne/MSD, researching the cultural implications machine learning practices might have on the field of architecture

Design Studio: The Barbie Malibu DreamHouse by AirBnB

Michael Strack is a registered architects & associate at NH Architecture, working on various public & commercial projects. He co-led three lower pool design studios with Dale Schlosser with a focus on heterogeneity in the city.

Design Studio: 2oup

Darcie Vella is a graduate from the RMIT Master of Architecture program and currently works at Kerstin Thompson Architects. She has previously taught in the first-year foundation program as a studio associate in the design studio Babylon.

Design Studio: Bland God

Jimi Chakma is an urban designer, academic and overseas architect from Bangladesh. His international expertise ranges from professional practice to academic teaching, with a focus on multiplicities in architecture and urbanism.

IG: @folio_jimi.chakma

Design Studio: Vertical Assemblage

Lecture, Amy Muir is director at MUIR Architecture and brings over 15 years of experience in high-end residential, commercial and public architecture. Amy holds degrees in both Interior Design, and Architecture from RMIT. Amy was the AIA Victorian Chapter President and recipient of the AIA National Emerging Architect Prize in 2016.

Design Studio:

Dylan Li is an Associate and registered Architect at ARM architecture and has taught in the ARM practice studio since 2019 at RMIT, AAVS and computational design studio at university of Melbourne. He has a distinct interest in the field performance architecture and public housing.

IG: @dylan______l

Design Studio: Urban Wave Pool

Charles Deicke is a graduate from the Melbourne School of Design and currently works at Paula. He has previously taught the first-year foundation program as a tutor in Architecture History Introduction.

Design Studio: Bland God

Alan Kim is is a Ph.D. candidate, specialising in large-scale 3D printing and innovative material integration, with emphasis on carbon fibre and polyepoxides, producing intricate fibrous tectonics. Prior to the Tectonic Formation Lab, he has practiced in Melbourne, Sydney and Seoul. M.Arch (RMIT), B.Des.Arch (UTS), B.I.Des (KHU).

Design Studio: Ephemeral Morphology: Forces & Fields

Senior Lecturer

Dr. Jan van Schaik is an artist and architect based in Melbourne. He is the director of MvS Architects, a creativepractice researcher and seniorlecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, the founder of +Concepts, creator of Lost Tablets, and a creative sector activist at Future Tense.

Design Studio: The Drawing Room

Cecilia Yao is a talented architectural designer at ARM architecture, with experience working on residential and commercial building projects. She is interested in exploring better living environments for everyone, particularly in the context of an ageing population in urban environment.

IG: @ceciliayao1125

Design Studio: Urban Wave Pool

Jack Murray (he/him) is a queer theatrical designer, writer, and architectural graduate whose work has been exhibited and presented internationally, published in youth architecture journal Caliper, and most recently presented at the 2022 Major Discourse event.

Design Studio: Bridal Shower

Hannah Zhu (she/they) is an architectural designer who has extensive industry experience through their work at Searle x Waldron Architecture, March Studio, John Wardle Architects, as well as their multidisciplinary work shown across Australia, Asia and Europe and most recently preparing for an exhibit at The New Institute in Rotterdam.

Design Studio: Dead Reckoning

Laura Szyman is a PhD Candidate at RMIT, a multidisciplinary practitioner, betwen architecture, arts, and academia. Her practice investigates the relationship between finance and space; looking at the speculative commodification of suburban space, relational urban systems, issues of dwelling, & sustainability in Melbourne’s periphery.

Design Studio: Bridal Shower and Dead Reckoning

Lucinda Mason is a director of Herbert & Mason Architecture (HMA). Lucinda’s focus is both architectural and urban, exploring how cultural practice reaches beyond architecture and urbanism to cross pollinate issues of private and collective property territories, sustainable growth, social cooperation, ecology, and agronomy.

Design Studio: Non Pedigree

Aimee Howard (they/them) is a Graduate of architecture and new media artist. Her work has been exhibited globally. They have been teaching at RMIT within the School of Architecture and Design since 2022. Aimee has recently contributed to Architect Victoria Magazine and was shortlisted for the AA Unbuilt Prize in 2022.

Design Studio: Bridal Shower

Bryn Murrell (he/they) is a graduate of architecture working at Denton Corker Marshall, where they work on projects at every scale. They have contributed to art works exhibited at the NGV, and the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Bryn also teaches into the RMIT Fashion school, educating on digital design and emerging technologies.

Design Studio: Dead Reckoning

Peter Bickle is is a registered architect with 40 yrs experience in practice as a project leader on many significant public buildings including Federation Square, the MTC & MRC and the Sydney Opera House. Peter has taught architectural design over the past 30 years, as a studio leader and major project superviso, at RMIT Architecture.

Design Studio: A Public Convenience

Matthew Herbert is a director of Herbert & Mason Architecture (HMA) and FORM Work. He has a degree in Architecture from RMIT University, and was awarded the the Anne Butler Prize. He has also studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Design Studio: Non Pedigree