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Kristin Green is the founding and creative director of Australian practice Kristin Green Associates architecture (KGA architecture,www.kgaarchitecture.com.au). Green established KGA architecture in 2009, with its main office in Melbourne, Australia, and projects also conducted in other parts of the world.

Projects have included: the Spring Street Grocer[1] — a coffee bar, gelateria, and fine food grocer with a cheese room and event space in Melbourne’s CBD; La Plage du Pacifique[2] — an as-yet unfinished resort in Vanuatu; and Three Springs Residence and Art Gallery[3] — a 'gesamkunstwerk' comprising a residence and art gallery in a landscape design (also by KGA); and in two separate locations on the property in Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges – an ‘art bunker’/carport and a wine cellar.

Early life and education

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Born and educated in Melbourne, Australia, after high school Green worked as a builders’ labourer, house painter and landscaping assistant in Australia and the USA. These hands-on experiences contributed to her pursuing architectural studies, undertaken both personally – seeking examples of historical and contemporary architecture across the USA, Europe and Australia – and academically. In 2004 she graduated with honours from RMIT University Architecture, renowned for its focus on innovative design practice, project-based research and critical debate. Green continues these approaches through KGA as well as reciprocating her learning experiences by running studios and 'crits' with architecture and design students at both RMIT University and the University of Melbourne.

Green’s contributions to Australia's architecture culture also entails professional and non-academic arenas, including:

  • Professional member (Architect), Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)
  • Juror, 2014 AIA Interior Architecture Awards
  • Invited speaker, 2015 National Architecture Conference investigating the theme of RISK
  • Invited speaker, 2017 Practice Matters: Women in Practice Lecture Series, Newcastle University School of Architecture & Built Environment

Career

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Having worked for a variety of Melbourne architectural practices, such as Hassell, BKK Architects, Peter Mills, Boschler and Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL), in 2009 Green established KGA Architecture. At TCL, Green was part of the project team on the multi-award-winning Craigieburn Bypass project.[4]

In 2014, her project La Plage du Pacifique was included in the Sustainable Empires[5] exhibition at the Palace Albrizzi as part of the collateral events for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, Fundamentals, directed by Rem Koolhaas. In 2015, she is an invited speaker at Risk, the Australian Institute of Architects National Conference.[6]

Green teaches design regularly at RMIT and Melbourne Universities. She is active in Australian architecture culture as a member of the Australian Institute of Architects and sat on the Interior Architecture Awards Jury in 2014.[7]

Her project, La Plage du Pacifique, features on the cover of RMIT's Innovation Professor of Architecture Leon Van Schaik's 2015 book Practical Poetics in Architecture.[8]

Notable works

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La Plage du Pacifique, Vanuatu.[9]

Spring Street Grocer, Melbourne Australia.[10]

Awards

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  • 2013: KGA was awarded Best Retail Design at the 2013 Eat-Drink Design Awards for the Spring Street Grocer in Melbourne.[11]
  • 2015: Joint award winner of the Inaugural Tapestry Design Prize for Architects with Michelle Hamer for their work Long Term Parking, along with John Wardle Architects for Perspectives on a Flat Surface.[12]

References

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  1. ↑ "Spring Street Grocer by KGA Architects". knstrct. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
  2. ↑ "La Plage du Pacifique". Architecture, Au. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
  3. ↑ "A stunning home gallery seven years in the making". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 September 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
  4. ↑ "Craigieburn Bypass Project Credits". Architecture Australia. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sustainable Empires". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Australian Institute of Architects National Conference Speakers, 2015". Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "2014 Victorian Architecture Award Winners Announced". 23 June 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  8. ↑ van Schaik, Leon (17 April 2015). Practical Poetics in Architecture. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 978-1118828892.
  9. ↑ van Schaik, Leon. "La Plage du Pacifique". Architecture AU. Architecture Australia. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  10. ↑ Harrison, Stuart. "Spring Street Grocer". ArchitectureAU. Architecture Australia. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "2013 Eat Drink Design Awards". ArchitectureAu. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "John Wardle Architects, Kristin Green and Michelle Hamer take top honours at inaugural Tapestry Design Prize for Architects". 1 July 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
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