Melbourne, AU

The OFFICE of CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY and ARCHITECTURE (OCTA) is a non-traditional architectural practice whose work includes residential and workplace projects, exhibition and furniture design, and installations and public art. An ongoing focus of OCTA’s work is the relationship architecture has to society and contemporary life. The practice understands sustainability as a far-reaching paradigm with consequences for architecture beyond the invention of new technologies and materials. OCTA sees architecture as inherently temporary but active in its capacity to engender new possibilities for human behaviour and relations. The practice is currently researching pre-modern approaches to building practices in the pursuit of an architecture of temporality and environmental flux. OCTA was an invited participant and finalist in the 2023 NGV Architecture Commission.

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