Our Studios in Brisbane & Melbourne create projects throughout Australia & Internationally.
Alexandra Buchanan Architecture are an award-winning residential practice producing distinct, enduring architecture across urban, rural, regional and coastal contexts in Australia and internationally. Our work spans architecture, interiors and landscape, developed through close collaboration with our clients and shaped by place and personal narrative rather than by a fixed aesthetic.
Our work is recognised for its evocative, highly resolved qualities, unfolding through light, materiality, landscape and movement. Spaces are designed to feel emotionally resonant, calm, intuitive and highly functional rather than contrived or excessive. Careful attention to proportion, craft and detail ensures that every element contributes to a cohesive whole, with resolution achieved through restraint, depth, and considered decision-making.
Each project is conceived as a singular, site-specific response to its context and the lives it supports. By understanding how people live, what they value and how they want to experience their home over time, architecture emerges with clarity and intent. Daily rituals, emotional connection and landscape inform our work rather than formula or stylistic repetition, with diversity across our portfolio reflecting the specificity of each site and brief.
We have a transparent process that keeps our clients informed and educated as projects progress. While much of the technical and strategic complexity is absorbed by the studio, we guide clients through each stage, ensuring they feel confident and supported as they make complex decisions.
The homes we design are created to last and to grow with the people who live in them, adapting to changing life stages and long-term use. From the outset, we focus on flexible layouts, durable materials and passive environmental strategies that support efficiency and longevity. Our work is guided by a strong sense of responsibility to our clients, their budgets, the builders we collaborate with and the environments our projects call home.
Working from studios in Brisbane and Melbourne, our practice is shaped by a collaborative, people-first culture and a team with diverse backgrounds and experience. This collective approach strengthens our design outcomes and enables us to deliver architecture for discerning clients who value individuality, quality and homes designed to support living well, now and into the future.
Our Vision
Enduring, evocative architecture that is responsive to people and place
The work of the practice explores key ideas of enduring, evocative, connected design in order to achieve client specific outcomes that are responsive to context and place. These explorations form the basis of all of our work. Our philosophy centres around functional, elegant, timeless spaces that are crafted for you, your site and your lifestyle.
Design with a social, cultural and ecological conscience, always
At ABA we feel incredibly strongly about the impact of the construction industry on the environment and as such we have invested in our team to provide you with an approach that considers the longevity of each project and its impact on the climate. In 2021 ABA has committed to run a carbon neutral studio.
High quality architectural outcomes no matter the scale or budget
At ABA our skill is in crafting high quality, innovative architectural outcomes, no matter the scale or budget. We care about the detail and finesse of each building
