Nguyen Hoang Nam Bui

Nguyen Hoang Nam Bui is a Master of Architecture student at Swinburne University of Technology whose work explores the intersection between social purpose, spatial experience, and material storytelling. Building on an Honours degree in Interior Architecture back in 2021, Nam’s practice focuses on how design can restore connection, belonging, and well-being within contemporary urban life.

Professionally, Nam works with Hayball Architects for the past 4 years, contributing to projects that span student housing, community spaces, and large-scale residential developments. His experience in practice has shaped a strong interest in socially sustainable housing and community-driven design models.

Nam’s design process is grounded in empathy and experimentation, combining digital workflows, architectural detailing, and psychogeographic research to reveal how people inhabit and emotionally respond to space. His recent academic projects investigate themes of learning environments, public engagement, and the cultural narratives embedded within everyday materials.

Beyond academia, Nam continues to develop Linked Space, his family’s creative studio, which bridges architecture, sculpture, and craftsmanship to create meaningful spatial and artistic experiences.

Through this multidisciplinary approach, Nam aims to redefine architecture as a medium for care, dialogue, and collective imagination, crafting environments that are both beautiful and transformative.

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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.