Antony Gutkin

Master of Architecture & Urban Design

Problem solving, creating contemporary visions of fiction and non-fiction and designing Architecture that is multisensory; these are the themes I enjoy exploring most when connected to the built environment.

I am currently a Master of Architecture student at Swinburne University of Technology. I come from a background of Interior Architecture and my short term goals are to expand my learnings in the Architecture space in a bid to achieve formal registration. In the long term, I aim to pursue the experience of an Architect that holistically creates buildings that impact positively on communities and societies. I also strive to be a leader of people. Learning and teaching are a passion of mine and together these things drive my abilities to be able to communicate with all levels of peers, group members and superiors.

I believe in the idea that it is important to learn the fundamentals in anything a person wants to know. However, in modern times, it is just as important to explore the unexplored and create things that test the boundaries of commonplace and normality.

Odin's Crib - An Earthen Home

Netwalk Morphology

200 Gipps Street

Swinburne Dormitory

MOD-X Relief Housing

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.