Paul Morgan Architects

Paul Morgan Architects has emerged as one of Australia's most innovative architectural practices. The practice specialises in educational design for universities and technical colleges and has also completed residential and urban design, master planning, commercial, government and library projects in Melbourne, regional Victoria and Asia.
PMA’s design-led team takes a strategic and expressive approach, creating innovative projects for ambitious clients. Working with the client from inception to completion, Paul’s personal involvement in each project ensures results that meet the client's vision, whilst amplifying the brief's spatial and expressive potential.
Our design processes result in space types such as ecology performance envelopes, spatial-acoustic environments and blended learning spaces that both embrace and inspire end users. PMA offers the skills to synthesise architectural design with environmental and sustainable design and through consultation with environmental engineers. These principles are integrated from the project beginning to end.
PMA has been published extensively in Australia and abroad. In 2007 The Cape Schanck House was one of twenty projects nominated globally for the biennial Zumtobel Award, for outstanding sustainable contributions to architecture and humanity and was also the recipient of the RAIA Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture, Australia’s highest residential design accolade. The practice has exhibited widely and was recently included in the Australian Pavilion at the prestigious 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

2009
Think Brick, Invited Entry Design Competition 

2001        
Environmentally Sustainable Housing Design Competition

1997        
Federation Square Design Competition

1991        
Companion City - Second Transition Architectural Design Competition

1988        
Haddon Scholarship Design Competition

2008
Winner, Built Form and Design category, Victorian Coastal Awards for Excellence – Building and Design category, Cape Schanck House

2007
Winner, Robin Boyd Award, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, Residential category for Cape Schanck House

Winner, Houses Award, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, Victorian Chapter, Residential category for Cape Schanck House

1st Commendation, Architectural Excellence in the South East Awards, Best Residential Building category for Cape Schanck House

Nominated, Zumtobel Group Award. Cape Schanck house was one of twenty projects nominated internationally for the biennial award which honours outstanding sustainable solutions in architecture and humanity

Winner, (Inside): Australian Design Review IDEA Awards, Residential Interior Category for Cape Schanck House

2006    
Shortlisted, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, Victorian
Chapter, Heritage category for Newman College Refurbishment
 
2005   
Shortlisted, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards,
Victorian Chapter, Institutional (Alterations and Extensions)
category for RMIT University SIAL Sound Studios

2003   
Shortlisted, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards,
Victorian Chapter, Institutional (Alterations and Extensions)
category for RMIT University School of Computer Science &
I.T.

2001       
Commendation, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, Victorian Chapter, Institutional category for Lecture Theatre, VUT Werribee.

2000   
Shortlisted, Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, Victorian
Chapter, Interior Architecture category for Monash Faculty of
Information Technology Interior

1991       
Second Prize, Companion City -Second Transition Architectural Design Competition

1987       
Commendation (Transition magazine) Journalism Category, RAIA Awards 

blowhouse: life support unit, Mornington Peninsula, Australia, Speculative residential project, 2008

Chisholm Institute of TAFE Automotive & Logistics Centre, Chisholm, Australia, Due for completion in 2010

Lal Lal Cabin, Lal Lal, Australia, Due for completion in 2010

GippsTAFE Leongatha Learning Centre, Leongatha, Australia, Due for completion in 2010

NMIT Stage One development, Epping, Australia, Due for completion in 2010

Cape Schanck House

The Avenel House

Box Hill TAFE Precinct Plan

Newman College Refurbishment (University of Melbourne)

SIAL Sound Studios (RMIT University)

Victoria University Lecture Theatre

Arianna Dagnino, ‘Mother House’, Domus, Issue 922, Milan, 2009

Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, Phaidon Press, London, 2008

Adam McCulloch, ‘Cape Schanck House’ Surface magazine, New York, 2008

‘Raum Teiler’, Kristina Raderschad in Details, Ideen und Lösungen für den Innenraum, Callwey Verlag, Berlin, 2008

‘Cape Schanck House’ in Kristin Feireiss and Lukas Feireiss (Eds.) Architecture of Change: Sustainability, Humanity in the Built Environment, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2008

Simone Schleifer (Ed.) Architecture Materials: Wood, Evergreen, Köln, 2008
[Featuring the Cape Schanck House on the cover]

Lukas Feireiss (Ed.) Strike a Pose: Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Spaces, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2008

Harriet Edquist and Elizabeth Grierson (Ed.) A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2008

‘Notice Board’ (GippsTAFE Leongatha Learning Centre), Mark, Number 15, Amsterdam, 2008

‘Paul Morgan Architects, Avenal House’ in Robyn Beaver (Ed), 100 Dream Houses from Down Under, Images Publishing, Melbourne, 2008

‘2007 RAIA National Architecture Awards’, Architecture Australia, Volume 96, Number 6, Melbourne, 2007

Inside Magazine, Issue 49, Melbourne, 2007 [Featuring the Cape Schanck House on the cover],
‘Cape Schanck House’, Sergi Costa Duran in Green Homes: New Ideas for Sustainable Living, Loft Publications, Barcelona, 2007

Anna Johnson, ‘Water Feature’, Monument, Number 79, Melbourne, 2007