Dr Tom Morgan
Tom Morgan is a Lecturer in the school of Architecture.
His research has worked with ideas of utopia and the future image of the city - with ‘the city beyond’. He is convinced that the stories and images that emerge from new parametric processes have something to offer the already rich discourse around the urban. His recently completed PhD addresses many of these issues - but there are many more to unpack.
In another life he would have wanted to be a science fiction writer. In another world, he probably is.
His work is visible on the increasingly atavistically named www.sharkmouse.org
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.
Warracknabeal Creative Circuit
Creating a makerspace for regional Victoria that fuses low-cost technology and craft.
Past research projects
Designing Affordable, Sustainable Housing (DASH)
High-quality, innovative architecture and urban design provides great living places.
Intensifying Places: Transit-Oriented Urban Design for Resilient Cities
Investigating how design research approaches can contribute to guiding the intensification of Australian cities.
Towards a New Development Model for Housing Regeneration in Greyfield Regeneration Precincts
Improving the effectiveness of infill development.
Additional research
Dr Tom Morgan, Alterity
2014
Manipulations of high-modernists frameworks.
Dr Tom Morgan, An Engine of Cities
2015
Dr Tom Morgan, Corb's Suburbia
2014
Generative reappraisal of Corbusier's north african super-structures through the lens of pervasive suburban expansion.
Dr Tom Morgan, Dusk Towers
2014
Emergent massings contaminate the old commission flats.
Dr Tom Morgan, Skyland
2014
Altered towers loom out and beyond all familiar scales.
Dr Tom Morgan
Building off existing GIS data, procedural victoriana is counterposed with the looming edifices of the contemporary city. Complexity is everywhere.