Andy Fergus is a Melbourne (Naarm) based urban designer with concurrent roles including his personal practice, head of urban design at Assemble Communities and advocacy lead at the Urban Design Forum.
Andy Fergus's Latest contributions
Who influences urban development, and how?
Andy Fergus and Felicity Stewart asked urban practitioners with a seat at the decision-making table to reflect on their diverse agendas and the techniques they employ to influence the shaping of our built environment.
Reflections on transforming the city: A conversation with Kees Christiaanse
Dutch urban designer and architect Kees Christiaanse speaks with Andy Fergus about creativity in making urban rules, the supervision of large-scale urban transformation projects, and the next generation of urban practitioners.
‘Sliding doors’ moments: Pathways to public practice
Public sector roles for architects are neither highly visible in Australia nor accessed by defined pathways from education. Monash University lecturers highlight the diverse opportunities for graduates.
Small urban: Against the grain of bigness
Andy Fergus examines tactics to enable smallness in cities, where investment patterns favour the large scale.
Sheds for sharing: North Melbourne House
Seizing an opportunity to build on an empty neighbouring block, the owners of a worker’s cottage in North Melbourne (with the help of NMBW Architecture Studio) have added a flexible secondary house that will allow them to age in place.
Community, not commodity: Whitlam Place
A self-initiated housing venture in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, replete with conceptual clarity, delicate form-making and extraordinary quality of finish, is a rare counterpoint to the uniformity of multiresidential development.
Designer public dunnies: Civic dignity in small public architecture
Three recently completed public amenities blocks represent the importance of small projects in the discourse of public architecture. Andy Fergus considers the phenomenon of the architect-designed public toilet.
Learning from Berlin: lessons for emerging collective housing
Katherine Sundermann and Andy Fergus to investigate the Baugruppe phenomenon in Berlin through a series of project visits and interviews.