Director
ASPECT Studios
Australia,
Adjunct Professor,
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Faculty of Design, Architecture
and Building

Australia's Sacha Coles will be part of the Friday afternoon discussion on Theme Four | Places and Spaces. 

Sacha Coles is Director of ASPECT Studios one of Australia’s preeminent landscape architecture and urban design practices with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Shanghai. The award-winning studio specialises in designing places where people want to be. With a practice comprising over 150 people, the studios are recognised for their rigorous design process and consistently innovating to produce the highest quality sustainable design outcomes across both public and private sectors.

Sacha has led the design and delivery of significant award winning public landscapes on a local and global scale, most notably receiving the International Federation of Landscape Architecture APR – ‘President’s Award’ and on multiple occasions the ‘Australia Award for Urban Design’ and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architect’s ‘Medal’. Recognised as an expert on the culture of Landscape Architecture in 2014 he was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. He is a believer that design thinking can save the world.