Jacqui Alexander is a lecturer in the department of architecture of Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA), director of Alexander Sheridan Architecture and co-editor of POST Magazine. Her current PhD research investigates the impacts of the sharing economy on architecture and the city.
Jacqui Alexander's Latest contributions
38 Albermarle Street by Fieldwork
A new housing model in inner-urban Melbourne aims to provide renters with a pathway to ownership alongside high-quality design and shared resident facilities.
Nightingale Housing five years on
Jacqui Alexander traces the evolution of Nightingale Housing and reflects on two of the built developments.
Disruptive domesticity: Housing futures and the sharing economy
Jacqui Alexander’s speculative design research project investigates the large-scale effects of Airbnb on housing and, with a vacant site in Melbourne’s western suburbs as a test case, experiments with a new domestic prototype to support home-sharing in the broadest sense.
Commodifying the sharing economy
Online platforms such as Airbnb have facilitated public access to privately owned space. But what happens to the sharing economy when these platforms start experimenting with the city’s hardware?
Stone House (1953) revisited
Designed in 1953 by Robin Boyd for Victor and Peggy Stone, this modest home in Melbourne’s Eaglemont reflected the progressive attitudes of its owners.
Airbnb and the authentic urban experience
Social media is reconfiguring our experience of the city and tapping into our appetite for authentic urban experience.
Our Lady of the Southern Cross Chapel
Branch Studio’s chapel forges a new connection between two suburban schools, serving dual purpose as a sacred and a civic space.
Double Monk
MRTN Architects gives a Melbourne shoe shop a gentleman’s salon style.
Extra/ordinary
Four delegates at the Australian Institute of Architects National Conference respond to its exploration of the culture.