Melbourne Architours are:

• Mark Skiba – landscape architect
• Andy Fergus – urban designer
• Esther Sugihto – architect

We are a group of local Melburnians who work, live and breathe architecture and design in this city. Keen to share the knowledge and generate discussion about the built environment, we invite you on a walking tour with us to learn about Melbourne’s evolution through its building fabric. Come and join us for one of three tours, followed by a caffeine pitstop or beer at the bar to dissect the good and the bad about the city and its architecture.

MELBOURNEarchitours

PO BOX 265 Fairfield VIC 3078

+61 430 389 740

melb@architours.com.au

www.twitter.com/architours_melb

Now go forth and book a tour here, check out tour options here, or tweet us to spread the MELBOURNEarchitour love, or write us a bit of ego-building prose, as per the following past tour guests/media:

Brilliant! Esther, Mark and Andy brought Melbourne to life in an intelligent, thought-provoking tour.  Because all three are currently working in Melbourne, listening and debating with them the merits of various buildings (in a remarkably jargon-free way) gave us a richer perspective on Melbourne’s architecture than through the “traditional” historical walking-tour alternatives that were on offer.  I would highly recommend this tour to visitors and long-term Melburnians alike. 

• That’s Melbourne blog, City of Melbourne, 10.01.12

“Tour groups already zigzag around our streets and laneways, learning about the city’s history, shops, chocolates and other charms, but a new series of tours is hitting the pavement, this time celebrating Melbourne’s architecture…” click here to read more

• “Unveiled, step by Step,” The Sunday Age M magazine, 22.01.12

“Learn about buildings old and new from Melbourne Architours’ design and architecture professionals ($30, $20 concession, architours.com.au).”

• Seedpods blog, Gemma Billing (landscape architect), 27.02.12

Organised by young local design professionals…the three share a passion for design, architecture & the built environment. Their tours offer fresh, insightful & well planned excursions into the rich heritage & architectural history of Melbourne’s CBD. The various tours reveal various milestones in Melbourne’s development and offer inspiring insights into the hidden historical life of Melbourne…Encouraging an informal & friendly forum for discussion & debate, the tours enlighten & advocate the need to slow down & consider the layers of past influence that have shaped what Melbourne is today… click here to read more

• Hung Vo, attendee on Tour 3: Modernism to Contemporary (city east) tour, 11.03.12

I thought the entire tour was great and thoroughly informative…it was refreshing! The critique on the general infrastructure and architecture about the city was excellent and the conversational approach with the tour was enjoyable. Your group were very articulate in addressing all the various historical, contextual and aesthetic elements with every place. Again, kudos.

• Aliki Komps, founder of A City With Quirk, attendee on Tour 3: Modernism to Contemporary (city east) tour, 11.03.12

Thank you for your lovely tour yesterday I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it, every moment of it…I now look at buildings in a different light – honestly!

• Joseph Boey, architectural photographer, Boey Photography, attendee on Tour 4: Melbourne Evolutionism tour, 14.04.12

I felt that the tour has made me realise the significance of some buildings that I have overlooked on a day to day basis. It was exciting to discover hidden architectural gems hidden and tucked in Melbourne laneways. It was also interesting to discover the importance of some older buildings that provide a clear glimpse of past Melbourne architectural styles. At the end of the tour, it was great to see changes occur through time but it was fascinating to see some attributes of past architectural styles live in today’s architecture in various forms. I will definitely come back for future tours to learn more about Melbourne’s history and how it shaped the architecture today.

• Unlocking the Grid, The City Weekly, 19.04.12

“The building blocks of our fascinating city contain a multitude of stories, some of them closer to the surface than you might expect. This rich fabric led urban designer Andy Fergus (pictured) and his mates, landscape architect Mark Skiba and architect Esther Sugihto, to form Melbourne Architours…” click here to read the entire article