Professor Helen Lochhead

Helen Lochhead is cross-disciplinary, an architect, urban and landscape designer and combines teaching, research, practice and advisory roles. Her career has focused on the inception, planning, design and delivery of complex multidisciplinary projects ranging from a city wide improvements program for the City of Sydney leading up to the 2000 Olympics to major urban regeneration and waterfront projects both in Australia and the US. More recently she led the development of 30-year plan for the transformation of Sydney Cove and was instrumental in setting a new strategic vision for Sydney Harbour.

Her projects have received numerous awards including an AIA Urban Design Award, AILA Urban Design and Sustainability Awards. In addition, her professional contribution to practice has been recognised through the AIA Marion Mahony Griffin Award, the NAWIC Vision Award for leadership in the construction industry and the AIA NSW President’s Prize.

A graduate of both the Sydney and Columbia Universities she has taught in Australia and the United States, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney, at UTS and UNSW and also as a visiting academic at Harvard, MIT and Columbia Universities. In 2014-15 she was also the Lincoln/Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy where her research interrogated design strategies for building more resilient waterfront cities.