You're standing in front of a forgotten building thinking it could be extraordinary. So are we.
Logan Architecture Studio is a registered architecture practice with a painter's eye, shaped by Katrina Logan's lifetime of extraordinary spaces — from Italian hill towns to heritage conversions, passive solar homes to co-housing.
We work on complex and considered briefs to transform sites for clients who want more than default solutions.
If you can see the potential, we can realise it.
Growing up in inner-city Melbourne in the 1970s, with school holidays on Gran's farm and periods living in Italy, Katrina Logan learned early that there was no one right way to inhabit space.
That curiosity led to becoming an architect. Shaped by architecture and art school in Melbourne, a job at the Royal Academy of Arts London, a study exchange to India under Pritzker Prize-winning architect V.B. Doshi, and an internship at Daniel Libeskind's Berlin studio, Katrina built the practice while raising two children – and today lives in a church she converted herself, paints, practices yoga, and shares the kitchen garden she designed with her neighbour.
What makes us different?
Three decades of architectural experience
Katrina is a registered architect with three decades of experience — which means she can take on the complex briefs requiring professional registration: heritage overlays, planning applications, multi-residential, subdivisions, co-housing, hospitality and church conversions.
Trained as an architect, Katrina thinks in scale, proportion, form and volume. Her acute spatial reasoning puts her in the 99th percentile — which is useful when you're solving problems in three dimensions (less so on a tennis court or at a karaoke night). She implements a clear and rigorous design process rooted in the traditional architectural discipline — no style without substance, no Pinterest mishmash.
Good design solves a problem. Preferably in a way nobody has thought of before.
A lifelong environmental commitment, not a professional stance.
The practice's environmental commitment represents a lifelong personal conviction. The practice is serious about reducing environmental impact and doesn't shy away from the knowledge that we are in a climate emergency — while at the same time believing in the need for well-designed, climate appropriate, affordable buildings.
All our projects have passive solar design and site ecology built into our initial concept design process. We are in the process of adding carbon metrics to our work.
As a demonstration of that commitment, the studio makes regular donations to Greenpeace, WWF-Australia, Animals Australia and the Australian Conservation Foundation.
A painter's eye
Katrina’s fine art training brings an eye for light, composition and material that AI can't replicate. Hands-on construction experience — from circular saw to welder to biscuit joiner — means every detail is drawn with first-hand knowledge of how it will actually be built.
“I’ve always liked making things. I chose woodwork as an elective in year eleven and was the only girl in the class. I'd like to think things are less gendered now. Making a cheeseboard was way more fun than secretarial studies.”
