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The latest Climate Action in Australian Architectural Practice report has been released, and one thing is clear: practitioners in architecture want to see action.

Addressing challenges such as wastewater recycling, transport management, disaster resilience and energy efficiency, the SM Bay City Sustainability Framework project establishes a compelling vision and sustainability principles for the city.

The power of architecture and visions of its future are explored through five research projects from the UQ School of Architecture, Design and Planning paired with State Library of Queensland collection content in a new exhibition at slq Gallery.

The world faces an uncertain geopolitical future, and advances in technology make it difficult to predict what the future of warfare will look like.
So, how can defence forces around the world educate personnel to fight in an ever-changing environment?

The University of Queensland’s School of Architecture was well represented on the podium of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) state awards last week.

Gunyah Goondie + Wurley by UQ School of Architecture's Professor Paul Memmott, has been awarded a 2023 National Trust Award.

A collaboration between the UQ School of Architecture and Tsinghua University has produced a dynamic installation at Botanica: Contemporary Art Outside exhibition. Traditional Japanese bamboo weaving technique known as Kagome has utilised by Dr Dan Luo and Weixin Huang to mimic natural landscape. The resulting structure is a captivating surreal landscape scene interplay between traditional craftsmanship and futuristic structure, creating a sense of harmonious balance between the natural and the digital.

On Thursday 20 April, the School of Architecture celebrated the 2022 prize winners and acknowledged our generous donors at UQ Brisbane City. 

The University of Queensland (UQ) and leading global architecture design firm, Buchan, have taken takes a bold step forward to support the next generation of Indigenous architects and designers.

On Friday 2 December, the School of Architecture hosted its end-of-year exhibition Blurrd, highlighting the exceptional work of the graduating Bachelor of Architectural Design and Master of Architecture cohorts. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Maryam Shafiei and Senior Lecturer, Dr Fred Fialho Teixeira from the School of Architecture collaborated with researchers at the QUT and ARM (Advance Robotic Manufacturing)- Hub to develop robotically fabricated prototypes for SHErobots exhibition at the University of Sydney

The School of Architecture celebrates the Urban Design Challenge team who were awarded a UQ Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning this week.

Acclaimed author David Malouf discussed “all things Queensland” with Professor Cameron Bruhn to celebrate the release of The New Queensland House at Brisbane’s The Calile Hotel on Saturday 24 September.

The University of Queensland’s cutting-edge Visualisation Laboratory is now operational, enabling students and academics to investigate complex architectural, engineering and urban design problems through an immersive experience of digital twins. A “digital twin” is a virtual model of something that exists in the physical world, achieved using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.

An atmosphere of “excited curiosity” characterised the 2022 Australasian Student Congress – Occupy – which was this year held in Brisbane for the first time since 1991.

The UQ School of Architecture has established the Biography of Queensland Architects Fund to help make the state’s architectural history more accessible. To support the cause, anonymous donors have generously committed to matching gifts up to a total of $25,000 on and in the lead-up to UQ Giving Day on 19 October.

Two members of the School of Architecture community have been recognised in the 2022 UQ Alumni Awards. Dr William Yang received the Vice-Chancellor’s Alumni Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to Australian culture, and Georgia Birks received the Indigenous Community Impact Award for advocacy for architecture that welcomes people of all cultural backgrounds.

On Friday 19 August, UQ officially opened “Camps, cottages, and homes: A brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland”, a collaboration between the School of Architecture and UQ Anthropology Museum.