Alan Pert is the director of the Melbourne School of Design. His forthcoming book on Merchant Builders, The Total Environment, will be published by MUP later this year.
Alan Pert's Latest contributions
Revisited: Vermont Park
In the1960s and ’70s, Merchant Builders used the suburbs to experiment with innovative, affordable housing models. Today, Vermont Park remains an exemplar for how we might rethink residential development.
‘Vertical cruise ships’? Here’s how we can remake housing towers to be safer and better places to live
There is a long international history of vilifying public housing estates. But high density is not the problem, say academics from the University of Melbourne. It is the way such buildings are designed, maintained and funded.
Vale David Yencken, a modern-day polymath
Graeme Davison and Alan Pert remember the late David Yencken, a prodigious contributor to the built environment and Victoria’s “unofficial minister for design and environmental planning.”
‘A dramatic and disruptive impact on the world’: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
The distinctive design of this eminent cancer centre in Melbourne, by Silver Thomas Hanley, DesignInc and McBride Charles Ryan, evokes optimism and inspires hope.
