Linda Cheng is Editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She has written extensively on architecture and design in Australia and around the world. Linda completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at the University of Melbourne and has worked at a small architecture practice in Melbourne. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Houses, Artichoke, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines.
Linda Cheng's Latest contributions
Dana Cuff: Do the work that follows your convictions
Ahead of her address at the 2024 Australian Architecture Conference, Dana Cuff sits down with ArchitectureAU to discuss how architects can regain their agency in making the world a better place.
Tadao Ando’s MPavilion set to remain until 2025
Tadao Ando’s MPavilion is set to remain in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens until June 2025, after City of Melbourne approved a request from the Naomi Milgrom Foundation to extend the temporary structure.
100 Women: Architects in Practice
Described as a “coffee table trojan horse,” 100 Women: Architects in Practice is both a celebration of exceptional practitioners around the world, and a rallying call for a different kind of practice.
We need a different conversation about Australia’s housing supply
Talk of increasing the supply of housing to increase housing and rental affordability is only pedalling private financial interest and obfuscating the real problem.
Vasse House by Joshua Duncan Architect
Western Australian architect Joshua Duncan’s approach to designing his own home stretched people’s imaginations, but it demonstrates what can be achieved on a modest budget and with utilitarian materials.
Architecture firms’ gender pay gaps revealed
Australia’s Workplace Gender Equity Agency published gender pay gap data for more than 5,000 private employers with 100 or more employees for 2022-23, which includes architecture and landscape architecture firms.
Architects ‘bewildered’ by secret termination of competition-winning scheme
Architects Jessica Spresser and Peter Besley said they were “blindsided” by a government decision to axe their design for National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
DP House by Bokey Grant
This modest home in Sydney’s Wahroonga is an exemplar in how small, relatively inexpensive modifications can totally transform a dwelling.
City of Melbourne approves design competition guidelines
City of Melbourne councillors have unanimously approved the revised Design Competition Guidelines, following a period of community engagement.
Winning design for Australia’s first Indigenous residential college revealed
The University of Technology Sydney has revealed the winning design for the first comprehensive Indigenous residential college in Australia.