Frank Burridge Regenerative Architectureal Environemnts

ABOUT


Frank creates the products, organisations and places that foster collective shifts to regenerative futures, reimagining designed environments as ecological assemblages that cultivate conditions for all life to flourish and re-connecting people with the shimmering, entangled unfolding of life on Earth.

The way we build today shapes how people will live, work, learn and play tomorrow. Let's build a world where all forms of life flourish together.

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Frank is a registered Architect, a member of Architeam and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, and one half of Main Studio.

PROJECTS




CV


Curent Positions

2022 co-founder of Main Studio, the interdisciplinary creative practice of Frank Burridge and Bronwen Main. 

Selected Architectural Works

Woodleigh School Year 10 Regenerative Futures Studio with Joost Bakker and McIldowie Partners. New school building. Completed January 2025. 

Lia’s Futurecave with Joost Bakker, an off-grid new home. Completed 2024.

Shelly House, alterations & additions to an existing home. Completed 2023.

Battery Cottage, alterations & additions to an existing home. Completed 2018. 


Lecturing

2023 & 2024 guest speaker at Woodleigh Institute’s ReimaginED conference, running workshops on relationships between regenerative pedagogy and space design.

2022-2024 Guest Lecturer in RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Practice Unit.

2022 Guest Lecturer in University of Melbourne Master of Architecture Professional Practice Unit.


Publications

Journal of Architectural Education. “Beyond Capitalism? Organizing Architecture Education.” With Peggy Deamer et al. 2022.

Log. Volume 49. “Jacques Rancière: The Time of Landscape”. Interview with Jacques Rancière. 2020.

Inflection Journal. “Mistaken Identity.” 2020. 


Teaching

2017-2024 Teaching Associate at Monash University Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, teaching 19th & 20th Century History & Theory of Architecture, Architectural Performance and Technology, and various units

2023 Design Studio Leadat Monash University Master of Architecture: STUDIO WASTED

2022 Design Studio LeadMonash University Master of Architecture: STUDIO DAM

2021 Design Studio LeadMonash University Bachelor of Architecture: STUDIO REGEN


Awards & Scholarships

2020 & 2021 Deans Honours Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Master of Architecture 

2019 Architect Michael Kaufmann Scholarship at Melbourne School of Design 

2018 Scholarship for Faculty of Arts Honours Academic Merit



LIBRARY



Here is a selection of books that guide my practice.