Housing Atlas
Housing Atlas for Australia documents important and instructive housing case studies designed and realised in Australia.
Project team
- Maryam Gusheh
- Louise Wright
- Lee-Anne Khor
Monash Urban Lab - Kerstin Thompson
Kerstin Thompson Architects
Partner organisations
- RMIT (Kerstin Thompson, Leo Showell, Hannah Wilson, Olivia Peel)
- University of Canberra (Ann Clearly)
- University of New South Wales, Sydney (Dijana Alic)
- University of South Australia (Damian Maddigan)
- University of Tasmania (Hellen Norrie)
- University of Queensland (Michael Dickson)
- University of Western Australia (Jennie Officer)
- Western Sydney University (Angelo Korsanos)
Undertaken within
Housing Atlas for Australia is an education-led, multi-year project coordinated across multiple and nationwide schools of architecture, led locally by Kerstin Thompson and Maryam Gusheh, Louise Wright and Lee-Anne Khor of Monash University’s Urban Lab. The Atlas aims to document important and instructive housing case studies designed and realised in Australia.
Australian medium to higher density multi-residential housing has matured and there are a range of projects throughout Australia that warrant documentation and analysis. Further, there is over a century of housing production in Australia to document, analyse and critically evaluate. The Australian Housing Atlas will address a gap in existing literature on housing case studies, providing useful references on Australian medium-density housing. The compilation encompasses examples across a range of typologies, timelines and locations to capture a diversity of approaches according to context, culture and climate. These will include seminal examples as well as significant but lesser-known projects, with selected case studies described through drawings, photographs and core data.
Our hope is that the Australian Housing Atlas will become an essential reference for architects, students and the broader housing industry, to inform critical conversations around the liveability, sustainability and constructability of our housing stock and to assist with the design of multi-residential homes as we meet Australia’s higher density housing demands.