Markus Jung
Markus Jung is a practising architect, critic and researcher in Urban Design and Housing.
After graduating at the KIT in Germany, he worked for leading practices in the UK and Switzerland on projects of transportation, mixed-use redevelopments and urban design.
In 2005 he founded the Architecture and Urban Design practice XPACE. Their works stress diversity, social and environmental responsiveness and has been widely published internationally. In parallel to practising, he has taught at the ETH and the ZHDK in Zurich.
Markus’ practise-rooted research explores processes of urban transformation, dynamic programmes, potentials for intensification and the implementation of urban strategies incorporating natural resources and human capital as drivers for resilient growth.
His housing research investigates high-density types, as an important sustainable model for addressing needs of an expanding and diversified future population.
Urban Design Research
Building Mixity! Cremorne 2025/37.83°S/144.993°E
co-authored book by M. Cassaignau, M.Jung with M.Xue
urban strategies for site responsive and inclusive urban densification
Kunshan Studio
water city design, water and food security, knowledge production
The Melbourne Section
territorial research, resources networks and human capital
Cremorne 2025
industrial suburb transformation, bottom up + top down tactics, heritage
Geneva 2020
city intensification, infrastructures, new typologies and dynamic programs
Current research projects
At Monash Art, Design and Architecture, we focus on the pursuit of research that addresses the social, economic and human issues facing Australia.
Industrial Revolution
An evidence-based framework for capturing the tacit + future values of Melbourne’s ‘National Employment and Innovation Clusters’.
The Melbourne Section
Investigating future scenarios for a sustainable growth across Melbourne.
Past research projects
Cremorne2025
From suburbanisation to inner densification and transformation, combining bottom up and top down as strategies.
Kunshan Studio
A real time project examining new urban typologies and form for the emerging city of Kunshan in China.
Kunshan Studio II
A real time project examining new urban typologies and form for the emerging city of Kunshan in China.
Additional research
Maud Cassaignau and Markus Jung with Matthew Xue, Building Mixity! Cremorne 2025/37.83°S/144.993°E
“Building Mixity!” has been shortlisted in the Leadership, advocacy and research – local and neighbourhood scale category of the 2019 Australian Urban Design Awards.
ISBN 978-1-925523-51-5 / Monash University Publishing, 2018
Markus Jung, Roentgenstrasse apartments, Zurich
XPACE architecture + urban design with afgh
Markus Jung, Roentgenstrasse apartments, Zurich
XPACE architecture + urban design with afgh
Markus Jung, Copperfish, Luxemburg
XPACE architecture + urban design
Markus Jung, Copperfish, Luxemburg
XPACE architecture + urban design
Markus Jung, Geneva 2020 urban vision
XPACE architecture + urban design with OOZE
Markus Jung, Mapping Zurich
XPACE architecture + urban design
Markus Jung, Birnbeck Island, Weston-Super-Mare
XPACE architecture + urban design with Eberhard Troeger
CREMORNE2025 vision, Melbourne AUS
MADA Architecture with XPACE
CREMORNE2025 on MoMA’s Uneven Growth platform
MADA Architecture with XPACE
CREMORNE2025 article in NZ exhibition, Venice Biennale IT
XPACE with Matthew Xue
The Melbourne Section in Urban Scenarios AV, Melbourne AUS
XPACE with Matthew Xue
Kunshan Studio, water city vision 2035, Kunshan CN
MADA Architecture with CRCWSC
CITYSPEAK! in trans 20 Relevanz, GTA ETH-Zurich CH
Markus Jung
Garden City Talgut, Winterthur CH
XPACE with afgh
Garden City Talgut, Winterthur CH
XPACE with afgh
Urban Hybrid Kalkbreite, Zurich CH
XPACE with oliv brunner volk
Urban Hybrid Kalkbreite, Zurich CH
XPACE with oliv brunner volk
Urban Hybrid Kalkbreite, Zurich CH
XPACE with oliv brunner volk
Urban Hybrid Kalkbreite, Zurich CH
XPACE with oliv brunner volk