Professor Alan Pert
Director, Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
Environment
Architecture and design in a post-pandemic world
The pandemic has reinforced that design and physical space plays a role in enabling disease to spread. But the built environment can also support infection control, as the past has shown
Environment
Investing in social housing during a pandemic
Australia needs a National Housing Strategy, as well as consistent funding and policy mechanisms, to reverse our long-term declines in social housing
Health & Medicine
Designing for wellbeing in children’s hospitals
New research sets out guidelines for architects and designers to create supportive, positive hospital spaces for children and their families at a difficult time
Environment
Australia’s top 10 iconic architectural sites
Architecture can define a nation. Ten of the University of Melbourne’s top architectural experts look at some of Australia’s most iconic designs