Off Grid 6: Architecture in the Garage

What makes an architectural culture? Where is this architectural culture made? Where does it belong?

In a setting with no insulation, no zoning, no floor finishes, and no OH&S, Naarm/Melbourne-born quarterly journal Garage Papers sets out to reclaim architecture as a hobby—as something fun. Rather than ‘critique’, their efforts were grounded by interest, passion, and dedication.

Join Garage Papers co-founders Andrew Murray, Kate Finning, and Jean-Marc Tang, for a discussion on building an unconventional critical culture for architecture.

Networking drinks to follow the discussion. Seating limited. Registration essential.

This event is supported by QUT’s Queensland Architecture Research Group within series Off Grid: a program of architecture discussions led by Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University of Queensland, and Andrew Leach, Professor of Architectural History at Queensland University of Technology, both Meanjin/Brisbane.

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Andrew Murray is a research fellow in architectural history at the University of Melbourne. Upon completion of his PhD in 2023, he worked as a caseworker for the Twentieth Century Society in London and is the current vice-president of DOCOMOMO Australia. 

Kate Finning is an architect practising in Melbourne. Kate is a graduate of the Architectural Association London and current Studio leader in the Master of Architecture program at The University of Melbourne. Kate co-edited the publication Five Good Swiss Plans (Quart, 2025) with Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal. 

Jean-Marc Tang is an architectural assistant at NMBW in Melbourne and one half of davulyte.tang. He was the 2023 Boas Scholar at the British School at Rome during his study at the University of Cambridge. He teaches, researches, and writes on and around the early modern period.