Dr Michael Spooner is a Melbourne-based designer, writer, curator, and teacher in the discipline of architecture. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University.

Michael has 18 years of experience contributing to architectural education in Australia. He is the Cocordinator of the RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design -Architecture Design Studio program (2025-), and Reflective Practice course (2022-). He was the coordinator of the Bachelor first-year design course from 2014-2024. He supervises Bachelor of Architectural Design and Master of Architecture design studios, Masters graduate thesis ‘Major Projects’, and PhD (by project) candidates.

His research focuses on implementing innovative pedagogical models that confront design through speculative architectural propositions, with particular emphasis on exploring ficto-critical methodologies and alternative architectural histories.

His published work includes the book A Clinic for the Exhausted: In Search of an Antipodean Vitality, essay 46 Little Latrobe Street: the office of Edmond and Corrigan, and project Frederick Romberg (1913-1992): an architectural survey.

This website is a personal, non-commercial academic archive documenting teaching, research, design studios and student design-led enquiry. Student projects and studio documentation may include third-party images, quotations or references as part of research or study, criticism or review, parody or satire, where applicable under the Copyright Act 1968 . Such material is presented within the educational, curricular and design-research context in which it was produced.