Alex Brown is an architect and senior lecturer at Monash Art, Design and Architecture. Her research explores twentieth-century and contemporary art-architecture relationships, as well as architecture and radicality from the 1960s onwards.
Alexandra Brown's Latest contributions
Meadows Primary School by Project 12 Architecture
By gaining a thorough understanding of the perspectives of staff and students at this suburban Melbourne primary school, Project 12 Architecture has designed new spaces that reflect the current community’s specific needs, rather than any particular pedagogical approach.
Mary Street House by Edition Office
An undulating brick wall is a proud and protective edge to an exposed suburban site, enfolding a rich and unexpected domestic setting within a cohesive architectural gesture.
‘A feeling of joyful exuberance’: Wowowa Architecture
With a fervent dislike for ‘boring spaces,’ Wowowa designs memorable homes driven by a keen appreciation for history, context and client relationships.
Urban unity: Melbourne Connect
Melbourne Connect constitutes a range of research, commercial and residential spaces in three interconnected buildings with the aim of fostering innovation through planned and incidental collaboration.
Confident and composed: House K
Balancing boldness and restraint, this small-scale addition to a family home in the Melbourne suburbs is a confidently composed riff on the cellular order of the original house.
Functional and flamboyant: Pony
Delicious colours of Dolcetto, Iced Vovo and banana Paddle Pop delineate the zones of this hard-working home for a family of six in Melbourne.
An abstracted terrace: Fitzroy North House 02
In a quiet street in Melbourne’s Fitzroy North, this curious family home, appearing as an abstracted worker’s cottage from the street, conceals an open design shaped by two verdant garden courtyards.
Complex relationships: Geelong Arts Centre
In the second stage of the rejuvenation of Geelong Arts Centre (formerly Geelong Performing Arts Centre), Hassell has inserted into the site a hovering form that incorporates not only large foyers and studios but also ancillary spaces that speak to the institution’s desire for greater accessibility and inclusivity.
Eclectic yet unified: Oak House
Colour and geometry permeate this bold addition to a double-fronted Victorian terrace house that offers new-found connections to an established oak tree.
Uncompromising geometry: Hawthorn House
Two monolithic pavilions shrouded in concrete rise from a landscaped platform in an skilful balance of architectural expression, material composition and comfort.