Rennie Liffen is a British Architect from London who has practiced in Europe and Australia. Rennie was involved in design studio teaching for many years in the UK and has been living, working and teaching in Melbourne since 2005. Rennie established the Master of Architecture Studio 2 at the Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, over a decade ago. Rennie’s teaching was recognized in 2022 by the faculty with an ABPL Teaching Excellence Award.
Saran Kim is an alumnus of Masters’ Design Studio 2 (2022, semester 1) and a Graduate of Architecture at Architectus. Saran has four years of sessional teaching, research collaboration and assistance experience at the ABP faculty and she received an ABP Staff Excellence Engagement Award in 2023. Saran enjoys the rigorous, iterative design process and proactive design culture that Studio 2 is known for.
Oskar Kazmanli-Liffen is an associate with Edition Office and an Education Fellow at The University of Melbourne, originally from London. With experience in award winning practices, Oskar has co-led studios across the masters and undergraduate degrees at RMIT and MSD. He has been teaching Studio 2 with Rennie Liffen since 2019. Through teaching and practice his interests lie in a close understanding of site, diagrammatic and compositional clarity and the experiential qualities of object and space.
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Marijke Davey
Virginia Mannering
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Marijke Davey
Jarrod Haberfield
John Gatip
Stephanie Liddicoat
Ben Kronenberg
Kate Finning
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Simeon Chua
Alessandro Antoci
Alex Savory
Amanda Goh
Amasha Samaratunge
Amos Ng
Andrea Winata
Andy Duan
Anson Zheng
Axel Sugiarto
Bofan Yi
Breanna Goh
Bryan Tan
Carina Cao
Carla Mileo
Carson Chan
CD Truong
Charlotte Li
Charlton Drake
Chee Kit Wan
Chen Dong
Cherry Deng
Christine Chen
Christine Jorge
Connor McBeath
Crystal Zhu
Daisy Zhang
Daniel Ji
Daniel Zou
David Liu
Dirui Zou
Domenique Cosentino
Duncan Crowe
Ellin Minogue
Emilie Evans
Emily Liu
Eunju Kim
Evan Jape
Evelynne New
Fan Zhang
Felix Garner Davis
Fengrui Si
Francis Burne Thompson
George Wilmott
Georgia Huang
Georgia Spencer
Gerald Low
Gregory Wang
Hannah Worley
Hao Yu Chen
Hoi Chin Lai
Hosna Eqbal
Isaac Laker
Isaac Yong
Jack Halls
James Winata
Jasmine Lam
Jason Le
Je Yen Tan
Jennifer Carey
Jenny Liu
Jenny Zhou
Jeremy Bailey
Jeremy Bonwick
Jesse Shen
Jessica Livia Darmali
Jessica Richardson
Jia Tan
Jian Shuang Cheok
Jiayi Chen
Jing Wang
Jinrui Lui
Jixin Wang
Joanne Tran
Jodie He
John Tanner
Johnny Xu
Jonathan Stathy
Julia Xu
Kairu Lui
Kaiting Huang
Katja Wagner
Kevin Lam
Kristy Tna
Kundan Bhandari
Kundi Shu
Lauren Nguyen
Lewis Vincentzatos
Li Sze Shum
Li Xie
Louis O’Connor
Linbei Huang
Lo Wan Hui
Louis Saunders
Lu Bai
Lucas Becerra
Lucy Jenkins
Maddy Laslett
Maia Guppy-Hall
Mandy Ye
Maneet Singh
Manning McBride
Mason Mo
Meichen Duan
Melissa Chong
Mengyan Yu
Michaela Prunotto
Mike Lam
Monica Percudani
Naiji Tian
Nakita Tsz Yan Chan
Natasha Su Wadi
Nenad Dabic
Nick Dean
Nina Nervegna Holden
Nural Muhamad
Oliver Wang
Philip Cen
Rachel Soebekti
Rayyan Roslan
Ricky Amos
Riley Woosnam
Roc Liu
Rosie Liaoyu Zhou
Ruby Yao
Ryan Small
Sabrina Lee
Saibal Dutta
Samual Halsall
Saran Kim
Sean Fu
Sean Shan
Sharleen Wonorahardjo
Sharvari Rane
Shengzi Huang
Sihui Huang
Simeon Chua
Simon Leung
Soke Yee Leong
Sophia Huang
Sophie Shen
Su Myat Naing
Sylvia Dong
Tahli Hogberg
Tang Wen Xuan
Tanzina Harun
Thandi Paterson
Thin Myat Noe
Tonia Pan
Torwin Tu
Tracy Liu
Uzhma Zulkifli
Valentina P Zambrano
Ved Patel
Vincent Rijanto Heru
Viya Zhang
Wanda Yang
Wenqin Sheng
William Chen
Winten Xu
Xinyue Wu
Yao Wu
Yaqing Tu
Yaseera Moosa
Yichen Wang
Yidi Chen
Yifei WangYilan Zhao
Yuan Liang
Yurika McGuire
Zac Goldberg
Zahid Shamsul Kamal
Zijun Mo
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