Paul Morgan Architects has emerged as one of Australia's most innovative architectural practices. The practice specialises in educational design for universities and technical colleges and has also completed housing, urban design, master planning, commercial, government and library projects in Melbourne, regional Victoria and Asia.
Paul Morgan Architects is a design-led practice that takes a strategic and expressive approach to create innovative projects for ambitious clients. The practice works strategically with the client from inception to align project outcomes to the client's vision whilst amplifying the brief's spatial and expressive potential. PMA's method is to examine architectural prototypes so that the project at hand becomes a contemporary test case for architectural progression. In order to ensure the success of this process, Paul is personally involved in each project from initiation to completion.
In striving for truly innovative buildings and spaces, the practice has developed expressive design techniques resulting in space types such as ecology performance envelopes, spatial-acoustic environments and blended learning spaces. The resultant projects are inclusive and inspiring for the users. PMA offers the skills to synthesise architectural design with environmental and sustainable energy design principles (bio-climatic design including solar, ventilation, wind and landscape management). These principles are integrated from the early stages of design and throughout the project with environmental engineers.
PMA has been widely published in Australia and internationally. In 2007, The Cape Schanck House was one of only twenty projects nominated globally for the biennial Zumtobel Award which recognises outstanding sustainable contributions in architecture and humanity. The practice exhibited in the 2004 Beijing Architecture Biennale, the first architecture Biennale to be held in China.