Melbourne Polytechnic Bachelor of Applied Architecture

Our lecture Dr Rajjan Chitrakar made a presentation with the title "From CBD to CAD: Melbourne city centre as a model for sustainable urban regeneration" at the State of Australasian Cities Conference 2025 being held at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

Thank you Dr Chitrakar for representing Melbourne Polytechnic in this significant event which is being attended by highly accomplished academicians and researchers from the top universities in Australia and New Zealand.

Thank you all for visiting the HEBAA End of Year Exhibition 2025 at our Collingwood Campus. It was a wonderful evening to showcase some of our best and selected student design work of this year.

We are very grateful to i2C Architects for sponsoring the Best Student Design Awards. Many thanks to Sandy Law at Law Architects for presenting the awards to the students.

Congratulations Theo Marque and Andrej Dreicko for wining the the Best Student Design Awards for 2025.

Thank you Peter Hogg, our Head of Program, the staff and students for making it a successful event.

Some glimpses of our End of the Year exhibition held at Collingwood Campus.

We thank everyone who came to the event.

Our Bachelor of Applied Architecture students are unveiling their most innovative and inspiring designs of the year. Witness the future of architectural talent as they showcase projects that push the boundaries of design and sustainability.

📅 Opening Night - Friday, November 22
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Level 2, Collingwood Campus, 20 Otter St, Collingwood
🥂 Refreshments served

Whether you're passionate about a career in Building Design, Planning, or Architecture - this is your chance to see the creativity of the next generation!

It was a very fruitful session with Oliver Griffin-Danby who came to talk to our architectural design students about the importance of graphic design and presentation in architecture.

Ollie has recently completed a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT and now works with Law Architects ( https://www.lawarchitects.com.au/).

Thank you Ollie for the talk.

Some glimpses of the History of Modern Architecture study tour of some iconic buildings and urban spaces in the Melbourne CBD. The tour was conducted by the course lecturer Peter Hogg on Friday, 13 September.

A huge thanks to Dr Elisa Casagrande for delivering a lecture on system thinking and complex theories in urbanism for our students in the Architecture and Urbanism subject.

It was an interesting and growing topic and hope our students have benefited from the lecture.

Elisa is a Senior Urban Designer at the City of Whittlesea and an Executive Member of Urban Design Forum Australia.

Some more outstanding work produced by our students last semester for the "Finding the missing" housing design project.

This week we had Mr Joe Ballester, the Country Manager for Abodo Wood Australia (www.abodo.com.au), to talk to our students of Architectural Technology about various timber products the company produces.

Thanks to Mr Ballester for the insightful talk.

We had a team from CSR on Thursday to talk about a range of building products that they manufacture. CSR is a leading building products company in Australia and New Zealand.

The session has been very informative for our students.

Thanks to Angeliqua, Tim and Liam for coming and talking to the students.

https://www.csr.com.au/

Our students made a tour of the Iglu Melbourne Central student accommodation building as part of thier design studio project.

It was a pleasure for us to see the building and the fantastic student support facilities. It has been a very helpful learning experience for the students.

We would like to thank Karin Wang, General Manager and the team for hosting the tour.

Our design studio students visited the Assemble Housing complex in Kensington this week.

Thanks to Andy Fergus and Ingrid Langtry for explaining about the project.