Bio + CV

Alexandra (Zana) Wright is a student and an active member of the slash/slash generation, seeking to explore the full extent of her creative complexity through projects fusing the aural, visual and spatial. She is a vagabond on the highway of education, about to finish a Masters of Architecture at the AAA in Aarhus, having studied at UTS and the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, and at the Technische Universitaet in Berlin.

EDUCATION

2009 – present – Masters of Architecture – University of Technology Sydney, NSW

2007 – 2008 – Bachelor of Architecture – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

2006 -2009 – Bachelor of Design in Architecture – University of Technology Sydney, NSW

2004 – 2006 – Bachelor of Design – College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, NSW

2003 – NSW Higher School Certificate – SCEGGS Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW

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2010 – ‘Extra/Ordinary’ National Architecture Conference – Sydney

2009 – ‘Parallax’ National Architecture Conference – Melbourne

STUDY TOURS

2009 – UTS  Post Traumatic Urbanism study trip + site investigation - Berlin/Beirut

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010 – present – Architectural Assistant – De Manincor Russell Architecture Workshop (DRAW) – Sydney

2010 – Graphic Designer & Architectual Assistant - International Design Group – working on site in Ordos City (Inner Mongolia, China) + Sydney

2010 – Architectural Assistant – Grice Lynch Architecture + Interiors – Sydney

2010 – Designer on Sonamarg House alterations + additions project, Byron Bay

2009 – present – C0-director – Carrotmob Sydney

2008 - 2009 – Designer on Byron Bay House alterations + additions project, Byron Bay

2006-2007 – Architectural Assistant – Grice Lynch Architecture + Interiors – Sydney

EXHIBITIONS + AWARDS

2011 – exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space as part of a larger conceptual artwork

2011 – ‘Pop-up Kasbah’ installation exhibited at Mils Gallery, Sydney

2010 – 1st prize winner of ‘Time of the Signs’ hoarding design competition for future UTS construction with ‘The Periscope’. Proposal under negotiation to be built 2011.

2010 – Presented The Diversity Machine and the Resilient System studio project at Sydney Pecha Kucha

2009 – National finalist in SONA Superstudio Student Architecture Competition

2009 – The Diversity Machine and the Resilient System studio project selected for curated exhibition- INDEX: A Measure of Thinking from UTS School of Architecture in 2009

2009 – UTS 2020 Library Studio project selected for UTS City Campus Masterplan Exhibition – University of Technology Sydney

2007 – Eco-trekking Centre Studio project selected for curated UTS Annual School of Architecture Exhibition