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For MUIR, architecture is derived from place. We relish the nuances and narrative that results from interrogating the context that surrounds a site and brief. MUIR takes pride in being inclusive, acknowledging that strong and successful projects are the result of a collaborative relationship between the client, community and the design team. Craft, care and passion drive the design process. MUIR’s Director Amy Muir brings over 15 years of experience in high end residential, commercial and public architecture. Holding degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture from RMIT University has ensured that the practice places equal value on the holistic crafting of interior and external form as one. The practice engages with a range of projects including those for public and institutional briefs bringing a sympathetic and strategic attitude to the varying contexts that they work within. The practice is underpinned by a firm belief in project-based research and investigations into the role of the civic. By investing public work with the language of memory and place, we hope to speculate on a new civic architecture. MUIR has been recognised through state, national and international awards and the work has been widely published locally and internationally. Amy is a lecturer at RMIT University and is committed to establishing strong links between her teaching and research, architecture practice and public advocacy through her role as the Immediate Past Victorian President of the Australian Institute of Architects.

iredale pedersen hook architects are driven by design excellence and is passionate about how architecture can make a positive impact on people’s lives and contribute to Australian communities, towns, and cities. We are motivated by a belief that all people should have access to excellent affordable design in their homes, workplaces, schools, recreational and cultural precincts and have built a reputation for delivering projects with a focus of the triple-bottom-line sustainable design - that is, environmental, social and economic sustainability. Our architecture is drawn from a landscape that is dominated by the horizon. In Australia, the desert and the ocean operate as constant counterpoints to the occupation of land by built objects and our work shares an understanding of landscape within the pragmatics of context. We reject the idea of a ‘signature style’ to our architecture and seek to make a considered response to the specific and unique conditions that are presented by each project.