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The Master Plan 2008 proposed nine planning principles for future development, which articulated key environmental, conservation and urban design issues to assist realising the vision, Growing Esteem.

Growing Esteem was the University’s visionary…

In March 1971 the Council of the University of Melbourne gave authority for the release of the University of Melbourne Master Plan Report 1970 under the seal of the University. The principles of the 1970 Report have governed the development of the…

"The master plan presented in the 1970 Report has completed the first decade of its active existence. This is an appropriate time to review that decade; to report on, and illustrate, the development that has taken place; to assess the effectiveness…

The 1970 Master Plan focused on preserving open spaces, encouraging foot traffic and highlighting areas/land in Carlton into which the University could expand.

A shared path running in the east-west direction, connecting Swanston Street to the central section of the campus, Masson Road took its shape as a street during the rectangularisation of the campus in the 1930s. The street had existed before, but was…

Formerly known as Arts South, the modernist John Medley building was named after the Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1938-1951. It was designed by Roy Grounds and constructed between 1969 and 1971, with the aim of relieving the crowding in the…

Built in 1899, the Engineering Building was the home of the first permanent Engineering course in Australia. Its construction was jointly funded by Professor William Charles Kernot, and the Government.

Built in 1885, first known as New Medical Building then Old Pathology, it was the first expansion of the medical school at the University of Melbourne (the first medical school in Australia). The building was remodelled in 1908 and a second storey…

Professor of Architecture, Brian Lewis proposed a master plan in 1948. He proposed that all tall buildings should act as the perimeter of the campus site to keep the traditional centre of the University open. Another radical move in his plan was that…

Opened in 1888 as the Biology School under the direction of Baldwin Spencer, the first professor of biology at the University of Melbourne. The building contained a lecture theatre, teaching museum, and laboratories. In 1899 further rooms were added.…

The original School of Architecture, Building and Planning building opened in 1964 providing a dedicated home for the school for the first time since the Architectural Atelier was established in 1919. It was demolished in 2012, with the present…