Studio — TAUT

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WHAT WE DO

TAUT is an architectural practice based in Melbourne with experience in residential, multi-residential, institutional and commercial projects.

We engage with our clients and consultants in joint design workshops and by conducting extensive design research. TAUT formulates well-founded architectural responses that value memorable experiences and refined details, and believe all our projects should push the boundaries of innovation.

Our studio approach, ensures our team’s expertise is available to each of the projects we deliver. TAUT enjoys working across all scales, from furniture design to architecture to urban design and everything in-between.

COLLAGE [PARK] CITY

Drawing allows an understanding of context beyond the simple production of content. The daily practice of ‘building and surrounds’ is exchanged for ‘park, infrastructure, and neighbourhood.’ The composition allows for the comparison of scale and grain, highlighting the wonder of how these patterns evolved. The flâneur sees infinite loops through favourite spaces—a different form of understanding through repetition and experience. Ink reproduced and rendered with markers and watercolour. A collage of Yarra Park, Tiergarten, El Retiro, Yoyogi Park, and Central Park (and surrounds). 2B or not 2B 2025 exhibition: ‘on the periphery of Architectural thought’ The exhibition raises money to enable for the Sinclair-Nelson Drawing Scholarship, a drawing scholarship for Masters students of the Victorian Schools of Architecture. It’s an annual scholarship and the funds raised in 2024 are funding the scholarship which is being awarded this year and annually after. Accordingly to enable the wider understanding of hand drawing as a part of the DNA of architects and their being. Qdos Fine Arts Gallery Lorne

TAUT SPACE

TAUT Space is a platform to facilitate exploration of diverse contemporary cultural interests, and provides a supportive environment for discovery and discussion across disciplines. Operating year-round to present up to five exhibitions, TAUT invites artists and creative practitioners whose practices somehow, whether obviously or more tangentially, connect with TAUT ideals to develop and show an original exhibition.

COLLABORATION

Embracing collaboration is essential in architecture.

Accepting and exploring, accelerating and realising ideas with others is always a rewarding experience.
Projects are enhanced through the layering and mediation of ideas or the reinforcement and growth of a single idea.

TAUT loves this dialogue; whether it be with clients, contractors, consultants, authorities, artists or other architects.
Respect and openness is crucial to a collaborative approach.

TAUT x CLR

As way of a shout out and credit for our Web Site and Identity Design…..

The production our new identity with Clear Design was always on our to do list. What we did not realise was the extent to which Clear would challenge and exceed our expectations. We are super proud of the result, from a talented design team, whose commitment to the project (and patience with their client) has already been recognised with a 2012 AGDA award.

The design captures our commitment to structure and responsiveness, the generic and the specific.

We look forward to future collaborations with Clear and sharing different beautifully realised collateral with our colleagues and clients.

Visit Clear Here
Wonderful code produced by Jake Bonin

WOMINJEKA!

TAUT wishes to acknowledge the traditional owners of the site in which our office resides, the people of the Kulin Nation. We have also collated some of our favourite links:

Koorie Heritage Trust has recently relocated to a location more befitting its standing, adjacent to Birrarung Marr @ Federation Square; KHT includes wonderful mix of contemporary, living and past heritage.

Museum Victoria’s Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre also features wonderful ever-changing exhibitions.

Indigenous Art: Moving Backwards into the Future is an interdisciplinary exhibition that features the finest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works from the NGV collection.

Davin Smith contributed to the initial Reconciliation Action Plan for the Victorian Chapter of RAIA as a member of the RAP Working Group.

CONTACT

Please contact us to discuss your project and our services.

DAVIN SMITH
DIRECTOR
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TAUT wishes to acknowledge the traditional owners of the site in which our office resides, the people of the Kulin Nation.

We are currently not seeking to add to our team. We are happy to receive unsolicited applications from experienced graduates, architects and/or a technicians that are passionate about Architecture.

Please email CV (max 5mb) to DAVIN SMITH.