I am an architect and an earth science enthusiast. While undertaking a science degree I worked as a field assistant for esteemed Australian naturalist Harry Butler, monitoring wildlife on mines in the Pilbara. My other passion is design. I completed a Master of Architecture in 1996 and went on to work for some of Australia’s leading architectural firms. In 2019 I completed a PhD that proposed new ways of designing in the Pilbara that respond to its billion-year-old geology.

 

Design for me is a way of seeing and processing the world. My training as an architect enables me to synthesise complex ideas through geometry. My interest in science gives me a subject to interrogate through design. For me, a successful design outcome must have agency beyond the aesthetic. It needs to educate and communicate hope.