Housing Atlas
Housing Atlas for Australia documents important and instructive housing case studies designed and realised in Australia.
Project team
- Professor Maryam Gusheh
- Professor Louise Wright
- Associate Professor Lee-Anne Khor Monash Urban Lab
- Professor Kerstin Thompson Kerstin Thompson Architects
Partner organisations
- Bond University:
Daniela Ottman and Matt Eagle - Adelaide University:
Damian Madigan, Julie Collins and Lyrian Daniel - RMIT University:
Kerstin Thompson, Leo Showell, Hannah Wilson and Olivia Peel - University of Canberra:
Ann Cleary - University of Queensland:
Michael Dickson, Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis - University of Tasmania:
Helen Norrie - University of Western Australia:
Jennie Officer - UNSW, Sydney:
Dijana Alic and Michael Zanardo - Western Sydney University:
Angelo Korsanos - Other affiliates:
Phillip Pender
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.