George Tsitsinaris

I’m an emerging architectural designer currently completing my Bachelor of Design (Architecture) at Swinburne University of Technology, after earning my Advanced Diploma of Architectural Building Design from RMIT University. My approach to design is grounded in the relationship between spatial experience, creating spaces that feel thoughtful, functional, and inspiring, with a focus on how people move and experience architecture.

My current project, The Intersection Museum, reimagines Melbourne’s industrial landscape as a contemporary arts precinct. Through tools like Rhino, Revit, Enscape, I explore interior circulation, the play of natural light, and the adaptive reuse of existing materials. This project reflects my broader interest in designing spaces that respond thoughtfully to context while maintaining a strong conceptual narrative.

Alongside my studies, I work as a Traffic Controller with Alpha Facilities Group, managing safety and flow on active construction sites, an experience that has deepened my understanding of coordination, sequencing, and the practical realities behind design execution.

Outside of architecture, I’m a dedicated football player, having played for clubs such as South Melbourne FC and Altona Magic SC in the National Premier League, and currently Manningham United Blues FC in the Victorian Premier League. The discipline, teamwork, and leadership I’ve developed through sport continue to shape my mindset as a designer, being focused on performance, collaboration, and application.

Architectural Design Studio 5

DeXign MuXeum of X: A New viXion for Newport - The Intersection Museum by Glimpse Studios

Architectural Design Studio 4

Wominjeka Place - Waterfront Intervention

Architectural Design Studio 3

From Digital to Physical - Panelled Roof and Market Wall Systems (Grasshopper)

Architectural Design Studio 2

Beyond Isolation: Senior Housing Competition - SmoothWay Senior Housing Complex

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.