About

We are an architecture practice based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.

With extensive experience designing and delivering public and private sustainable architecture throughout Australia and with a systems design background, we believe strongly in holistic design thinking through a collaborative design process that enables high-value spatial outcomes.

Our cooperative method means we can tap into the right team for any project whether it requires architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists or any other design professional.

Image of Mt Atkinson Vision Centre Skylights

Recent work

Malwood Place (Residence)
New residential build in Lutruwita Tasmania.

Wangaratta Rural Social Housing
3-storey mix of 44 specialised accomodation units (including SDA).

Abbott Street Housing
Coastal 24 dwelling multi-residential apartment building.

Mt Atkinson Vision Centre
Mixed use prefabricated community facility in Truganina.

Bangs Street Prahran Housing
228 social housing and 206 market residences in Prahran.

Shand Townhouses
Consultancy services for not-for-profit Victorian developer Ys Housing.

Doncaster East (Residence)
Residential renovation and refurbishment of postwar home.

About Carey

Alongside architectural practice, Carey has a passion for education and research currently working as a sessional academic teaching architectural design studios and architectural theory.

His research interests lie in future living typologies, regenerative design, spatio-temporality, public policy and the role of the state in architecture.

  • Practice & Teaching

    Principal - Carey Landwehr Architecture & Design
    2021 - Active
    Sessional Academic - Swinburne University of Technology 2023 - Active
    Sessional Academic - Melbourne School of Design 2020 - Active
    Project Architect - Jackson Clements Burrows Architects 2021 - 2024
    Architect/Ops Manager - Tandem Design Studio 2018 - 2021
    Draftsperson (Civic & Education) - Cross Section 2010 - 2018

    Education

    Graduate Certificate (Public Policy) - Australian National University 2024
    Graduate Certificate (Education) - Charles Sturt University 2021
    Master of Architecture - The University of Melbourne 2018
    Summer Study - CEPT University - Ahmedabad, India 2017
    Aditnálta - Architectural Association - London, United Kingdom 2016
    Bachelor of Arts (Design) - Curtin University, Perth 2012

    Awards

    DesignInc Positive Legacy Design Award 2018
    Bates Smart Graduate Prize (Thesis Commendation) 2018
    Melbourne Global Scholars Award (India/United Kingdom) 2016

    Affiliations

    Living Future Institute of Australia (LFA - Accreditated Member)
    Professional Architects Australia (PAA - Vice President 2024-26)
    Professional Architects Australia (PAA - Committee 2022-2024)
    Parlour Collective (Member)
    Sustainable Builders Alliance (Member)
    Emerging Architects and Graduate Network (EmAGN - Member)

    Registrations

    Australian Institute of Architects (AIA: 61378)
    Registration Board of Victoria (ARBV: 800063)
    Board of Architects of Tasmania (Registration: 1416)
    Carey Landwehr Architecture & Design (Firm Registration: F197)
    ABN: 61 657 080 043

  • All that is public melts into air - Melbourne School of Design 2024
    Contexts of Architectural History - Swinburne University of Technology 2024
    Housing: Ever Learn to Dwell - Mpavilion 2023
    Feeding the Moloch: on Crisis, Speculation and Public Housing Renewal in Victoria - Inflection Vol. 10 2023
    Labour in Architecture: The future of the profession - Mpavilion 2023
    Design Studio Alpha - Melbourne School of Design 2022
    Design History & Theory in the Making - Melbourne School of Design 2021
    Design Studio Alpha - Melbourne School of Design 2021
    Global Foundations of Design - Melbourne School of Design 2020ᅠ
    An Exploration of Architectural Temporality - Thesis 2018ᅠ
    Is there a place for traditional construction techniques in post-industrial Ahmedabad? 2017ᅠ
    A Reading of the Utopic-Dystopic Future City in Film 2017ᅠ
    Searching for Urban Complexity in Contemporary Digital Practice 2017