never ever modern IV
MADA Monash University
Architecture 2025
Tutors: Luca Lana
Never Never Modern IV returns—this time to Harry Seidler’s masterwork and extractive icon, Shell House. Students critically unpack the tower’s modernist legacy, tracing its material, financial, and infrastructural lineages while testing adaptive reuse as ecological repair. Through drawings and 1:1 hybrid prototypes, the studio reframes Shell House not as a monument of progress, but as a living system demanding care, circularity, and accountability.
participants
Yixin Meng
Chloe-Gabrielle Fuller
Ayoola Sholola
Meka Cian Rakhmat
Jelena Tosic
YeeWen- yvonne Chuah
Louis Magree
Peiwen Jia
Caitlyn Cai
Brandon J Chow
Jacky Wong
Liang Zhang
never ever modern
MADA Monash University
Architecture 2018
Tutors: Luca Lana
Never (Ever) Modern takes its name from 1991 book ‘we have never been modern’ by Bruno Latour.
The studio like Latour will explore hybrid models in an attempt to challenge architecture’s very own ‘modern Constitution’.
ICI House by Bates Smart Mccutcheon the first curtain wall skyscraper in Australia here plays the part of the quintessential
modernist tower. Thorough integration, and proposition studio Never ever Modern attempts to challenge the socio-political
economic or design reasoning from which ICI was built and present new hybrid models.
participants
Alexander Lamarche
Anthony vitally Tchourilov
Cameron Foo
Danielle Angelina Pozzobon
Enzo Lara-hamilton
Jasmine Choucair
Liam Francis Dame
Naila Salicin
Nancy meng-shi Luo
Natalie Ruth Spivak
Neil Jason France
Riley Thomas Kilkenny-Jones
Sylvania Shum ye dong
Thierry Clifford Pydiah
Yixuan Li
Zachary Ryan Quinn
never been modern
MADA Monash University
Architecture 2017
Tutors: Virginia Mannering, Luca Lana
This studio took the corporate tower (in this instance, Rialto Tower, Melbourne) and unpack its use as corporate vertical real estate. Critiquing the tower’s role in social, economic and political divisions, participants will propose alternate usages, atmospheres, structures, and programs, with the ultimate aim of critiquing an outdated and exclusionary modernist system.
Students were asked to work individually, each designing interventions in a part or parts of the Rialto Tower. Model-making will be emphasised as a collaborative and key communicative tool, with drawings influenced by those of radical architecture.
participants
Sithij RinaldiCooray
Haroula LiaKarapanagiotidis
Briony Cathrine McKenzie
Michael Scott Finlay
Samuel David-HudsonTardrew
Shane JohnPristov
Seray-Nur Onal
Joyce Truong
Margot ChantalVuillier
Vital BiSheng Hoo
LeanneHaidar
Ethan JamesCarter
XiangLi
SameerAzamy
Xiaoxin Chen
Harrison IsaakMourelatos
Francesca RoseSanguinetti
Curran MartinSmith
Teoboon Kiat
