Dr Jacqui Alexander is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, and Director of Alexander & Sheridan Architecture, an award-winning practice recognised with the Emerging Architects’ Prize at the Victorian Architecture Awards (2021). Jacqui's work combines design-led research with traditional scholarly approaches, focusing on inequalities in the contemporary city – particularly in relation to housing, access, and the political economies shaping urban space. 

Alexander & Sheridan Architecture adopts an expanded model of practice that spans the design and delivery of buildings, speculative and research-led projects, teaching, and the public dissemination of architectural ideas through exhibitions, publications, lectures, and broadcast media. Across these modes, the practice engages housing as a critical site through which broader questions of how we live – individually and collectively – can be examined, while also testing alternative modes of practice that challenge conventional models of architectural production.

Jacqui’s research examines the relationship between architecture, culture, technology, and politics. It positions architecture as a field of practice through which systems of distribution – of space, resources, labour, and knowledge – can be critically examined and reconfigured. Her PhD, Dwelling on the Platform: Housing Access and Equity in the Digital Society, investigates how digital disruption is reshaping housing production through accelerating processes of financialisation, while also developing and testing alternative housing models and forms of sharing that support more equitable urban futures. Her work engages installation, exhibition, and publishing as critical tools for making spatial questions public; this includes Supershared (with Sibling Architecture, RMIT Design Hub, 2016), Tenancy ≠ Title (2020), shortlisted for the 2021 ArchitectureAU Unbuilt Prize, and This Time Tomorrow (with Monash Art Projects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014).

Alongside her design and research practice, Jacqui has made a significant contribution to architectural discourse. She co-founded the independent journal POST Magazine (Melbourne/Paris), recipient of the 2009 Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media (VIC), which has been exhibited internationally as part of the Archizines project at institutions including the Vitra Design Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, ETH Zurich, the RMIT Design Hub, and the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2020, she was an inaugural recipient of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Australia Council for the Arts Top 5 Arts Residency, where she developed public-facing architectural content that extends architectural discourse beyond disciplinary boundaries and engages broader audiences in questions of housing and urban justice and the politics of space.

Jacqui is a researcher in the Monash Urban Lab and Art/Architecture intersections cluster.