Libby Gallagher

Libby, director of Gallagher Studio, is a landscape architect with 20 years of experience. Libby’s delivered innovative public domain projects including parks, squares and streets as well as strategic, urban design and master planning projects whilst in practice in the UK, Canada, Malaysia and Australia. Libby has dedicated the last five years to researching the design and delivery of high quality public spaces to address climate change and has completed a PHD focused on climate adaptation for urban streets. Gallagher studio’s “Cool Streets’ pilot project in Western Sydney, based on this PHD research won an AILA NSW 2017 Award of Excellence. She has been a member of the Georges River (formerly St George) Design Review Panel since 2012. and has taught in undergraduate and graduate programs at UNSW, UTS and USYD.