SPRESSER is an architecture studio specialising in a wide range of projects. The studio engages with built and speculative architectural work, object design and fine art.

Jessica Spresser is an emerging Australian architect. She has practiced in London, Tokyo and Venice, and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Queensland, where she was awarded the Karl & Gertrude Langer Memorial Prize for Design (2011). Jessica is a PhD Candidate in the intersection of architecture and art in exhibitionary environments. She remains a sessional design tutor and guest critic at the University of Sydney and the UQ School of Architecture. Jessica is a regular juror for the Australian Institute of Architects awards program.

Public Lectures

2022 UnCommon Practice Symposium, Hobart, Australia
2022 ‘Pavilions’ at Tusculum, Sydney, Australia
2022 OCCUPY National Student Congress, Brisbane, Australia
2022 National Architecture Conference, Melbourne, Australia
2022 The Architecture Symposium, ‘Beyond the Building’, Australia
2021 Perspectives vol. 25, Eternity Playhouse Sydney
2021 Barangaroo Pier Pavilion, Brickworks Sydney
2020 Superstudio
2019 Bruce Speaks, UQ School of Architecture
2019 ‘Value’ Speaker Series, Brisbane
2019 Griffith University School of Architecture
2015 Pecha Kucha vol. 42, Brisbane Powerhouse
2013 Venice Biennale 2012, QUT School of Design
2012 Pecha Kucha vol. 27, Brisbane Powerhouse

Exhibitions

2022 COVID Retrospective: A Reconsidered Residential Habitat (group exhibition)
Brickworks, Brisbane
2018 Radical Architecture: Erasing the City (group exhibition)
Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2016 FORAGE (solo art exhibition)
ACH Gallery
2012 Feel the Ground: Wall House One to One with Anupama Kundoo
(participant)
Venice Biennale