Helen Lochhead
Helen Lochhead is an architect and urbanist. She joined UNSW Sydney after her Loeb Fellowship as Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment and then Pro Vice-Chancellor, Precincts and 2016-21. Her career has focused on city-shaping projects ranging from public buildings to citywide improvement programs and major urban regeneration projects. She has combined academic and advisory roles with practice and also held in senior roles in the US and Sydney Australia. She now maintains a diverse portfolio as an educator, a commentator, a curator of exhibitions and symposia and as expert on numerous competition juries, panels, NFP Boards and Public Commissions.
She maintains a high profile in the Australian profession as a contributor to public debate and also as a curator and creative director of national and international architecture and landscape architecture conferences and lecture series in Sydney. Current appointments include Chair, Sydney Planning Panel and the Independent Planning Commission. She also serves on a number of Boards and Design Panels nationally, including the National Board of the Australian Institute of Architects, the Australian Venice Architecture Biennale Commission and the AIA Foundation Board. In 2019 she is the President of Australian Institute of Architects.
Her professional contribution has been recognized through many professional and industry awards including Australian Institutes of Architecture (AIA) and Landscape Architecture (AILA) project awards in Architecture, Urban Design and Sustainability, the NAWIC Vision Award for leadership in the construction industry and the AIA Presidents Prize; while her leadership in advancing women in the professions has also been recognised. Notably, she was named one of the 100 most influential women in Australia for her contributions in this arena in the 2019 AFR awards. Helen was appointed a professor emeritus of UNSW Sydney, Australia for her significant contributions to teaching, research exchange.
A graduate of both the Sydney and Columbia Universities. She was a Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of numerous Fellowships including the Lincoln/Loeb Fellowship.