Rate My Professor Jacqui Alexander

Dr Jacqui Alexander is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture from Monash University in 2023 with a thesis titled “Dwelling on the Platform: Housing Access and Equity in the Digital Society,” alongside a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Architectural Design from RMIT University. As Director of Alexander & Sheridan Architecture, she leads projects that integrate building design, speculative research, teaching, exhibitions, publications, lectures, and public broadcasting. The firm received the Emerging Architects’ Prize at the 2021 Victorian Architecture Awards.

Alexander’s research investigates the interplay between architecture, contemporary culture, technology, politics, and media, with key interests in platform urbanism, housing speculation, the sharing economy, rental and shared housing, architecture and capitalism, Italian radical design, activist practices, housing inequality, and the commons. Her work critiques the financialisation of housing driven by platform technologies and proposes sustainable alternatives. Notable projects include the Supershared installation for RMIT Design Hub’s Occupied exhibition (2016) in collaboration with Sibling Architecture, and Tenancy ≠ Title (2020), shortlisted for the 2021 Architecture Australia Unbuilt Prize. In architectural publishing, Alexander co-founded POST Magazine, a Melbourne- and Paris-based independent journal that won the 2009 Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media (VIC) and toured internationally in the Archizines exhibition at institutions like the Vitra Design Museum, V&A Museum London, ETH Zurich, RMIT Design Hub, and National Gallery of Victoria. She was an inaugural recipient of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Australia Council for the Arts Top 5 Arts Residency in 2020, producing content for ABC platforms. Alexander has contributed to award-winning projects, including the Horbury Hunt Award for Residential Architecture (2018) and national commendations in residential architecture (2012). Since 2023, she serves on the Heritage Committee of the Australian Institute of Architects. Her recent publications feature “38 Albermarle Street” in Architecture Australia (2023) and “A Sc(ore) for Listening: Attuning to the Hidden Material Bodies of Queenstown” (2023). Through exhibitions, public lectures, and media, Alexander significantly impacts discourse on housing equity, architectural activism, and urban futures.