Rate My Professor Ross Brewin

Ross Brewin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, a department he helped establish in 2008. He earned a Master of Architecture (Research) from RMIT University in 2007, a Bachelor of Architecture from Curtin University in 2000, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Architecture from Curtin University in 1999. Throughout his tenure at Monash, Brewin has contributed extensively to design teaching across all course levels. From 2008 to 2013, he led the Foundation program, earning a Government Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. He subsequently served as Master of Architecture course director, achieving full five-year accreditation from the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia in 2022. Presently, he leads the Design Make education stream, where students engage in live design and fabrication projects for communities. As a registered architect and co-director of Gilby Brewin Architecture, his practice has received multiple accolades, including the 2023 John Lee Archer Triennial Prize from the Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Awards, the 2018 Tasmanian Architecture Awards Small Project Architecture Award, 2014 Western Australian Institute of Architects Residential New Commendation, 2008 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work Special Mention, and Houses Awards commendations and shortlists in 2019.

Brewin's research centers on the retrofit of housing for people with special needs and the creative repair and regeneration of post-industrial landscapes, primarily through the Monash Urban Lab's Better Life at Home stream. His projects include Triabunna Tomorrow, an ongoing post-industrial urban revitalization in Tasmania, and contributions to the River Derwent Heavy Metals Project. Key publications encompass 'Rethinking temporary architecture pavilions through the lens of circularity and embodied greenhouse gas emissions: an as-built demonstrator' (2025, with A. Stephan), 'The Shed, University of Tasmania' (2025), 'Spring Bay Mill; The Transformation of a Peculiar Modern Industrial Heritage Site' (2024), and 'Spring Bay Mill: A Place to Gather Again - Triabunna, Tasmania' (2024). Gilby Brewin Architecture's work has been published in leading journals such as Architecture Australia and featured in two recent Australian pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Brewin has delivered public lectures, including 'The Architecture Symposium: A Broader Landscape: Spring Bay Mill' in 2022.