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About CL_AD
We are an architecture practice based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.
With extensive experience designing and delivering public and private sustainable architecture throughout Australia and with a systems design background, we believe strongly in holistic design thinking through a collaborative design process that enables high value spatial outcomes.
Our cooperative method means we can tap into the right team for any project whether it requires architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists or any other design professional.
About Carey
Alongside architectural practice, Carey has a passion for education and research currently working as a sessional academic teaching architectural design and theory.
His research interests lie in future living typologies, regenerative design, participatory design, spatio-temporality, public policy and the role of the state in architecture.
Affiliations
- Australian Institute of Architects (AIA - Accredited Member)
- Architects Registration Board of Victoria (ARBV - Registered Architect)
- Architects Declare (Member)
- Living Future Institute of Australia (LFA - Accredited Member)
- Professional Architects Australia (PAA - Vice President 2024-26, Committee 2022-2024)
- Parlour Collective (Member)
- Sustainable Builders Alliance (Member)
- Emerging Architects and Graduate Network (EmAGN - Member)
Awards
- DesignInc Positive Legacy Design Award - 2018
- Bates Smart Graduate Prize (Thesis Commendation) - 2018
- Melbourne Global Scholars Award (India/United Kingdom) - 2016
Education
- Graduate Certificate (Public Policy) - Australian National University (2024)
- Graduate Certificate (Education) - Charles Sturt University (2021)
- Master of Architecture - The University of Melbourne (2018)
- Summer Study - CEPT University - Ahmedabad, India (2017)
- Aditnálta - Architectural Association - London, United Kingdom (2016)
- Bachelor of Arts (Design) - Curtin University, Perth (2012)
Practice & Teaching
- Principal - Carey Landwehr Architecture & Design (2021 - Present)
- Teaching Associate - Monash University (2024 - Present)
- Sessional Lecturer - Melbourne Polytechnic (2024 - Present)
- Sessional Academic - Swinburne University of Technology (2023 - Present)
- Sessional Academic - Melbourne School of Design (2020 - Present)
- Project Architect - Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (2021 - 2024)
- Architect/Ops Manager - Tandem Design Studio (2018 - 2021)
- Draftsperson (Civic & Education) - Cross Section (2010 - 2018)
Registrations
- Australian Institute of Architects (AIA: 61378)
- Registration Board of Victoria (ARBV: 800063)
- Board of Architects of Tasmania (Registration: 1416)
- Carey Landwehr Architecture & Design (Firm Registration: F197)
- ABN - 61 657 080 043
Writing, Talks & Academic Work
- Architecture as Spectacle - Melbourne School of Design (2024)
- Design Studio Gamma - Melbourne School of Design (2024)
- Architectural Technology 2 - Melbourne Polytechnic (2024)
- Positions & Dialogues in Architecture 2 - Monash University (2024)
- Cross Cultural Contexts - Swinburne University of Technology (2024)
- Privileged Praxis: Antipodean Perspectives on the Need for an Architecture of Community - Building Diversity DK Vol 2: ...but who are we building for? (2024)
- All that is public melts into air - Melbourne School of Design (2024)
- Architectural Design Studio 02 - Swinburne University of Technology (2024)
- Contexts of Architectural History - Swinburne University of Technology (2024)
- Housing: Ever Learn to Dwell - Mpavilion (2023)
- Feeding the Moloch: on Crisis, Speculation and Public Housing Renewal in Victoria - Inflection Vol. 10 (2023)
- Labour in Architecture: The future of the profession - Mpavilion (2023)
- Design Studio Alpha - Melbourne School of Design (2022, 2021)
- Design History & Theory in the Making - Melbourne School of Design (2021)
- Global Foundations of Design - Melbourne School of Design (2020)
- An Exploration of Architectural Temporality - Thesis (2018)
- Is there a place for traditional construction techniques in post-industrial Ahmedabad? (2017)
- A Reading of the Utopic-Dystopic Future City in Film (2017)
- Searching for Urban Complexity in Contemporary Digital Practice (2017)