Bridget Smyth

For the past 30 years Bridget Smyth has pursued a career in urban design/architecture on major public domain and infrastructure projects in Australia and the USA.

Currently, Bridget is City Architect/Design Director for the City of Sydney and manages a range of urban design, strategic and special projects, including the Sustainable Sydney 2030 (SS2030) vision and currently 2050. She is currently responsible for implementing key SS2030 projects such as the transformation of the city center including the design of the pedestrianisation of George St and a program of works to improve Sydney’s public domain across the local government area. In addition to project implementation, she is developing key strategies and policies to guide the design of Sydney’s public domain and built environment and is responsible for directing the City’s Public Art Program. She also manages the City’s Design Advisory Panel and Public Art Advisory Committee.

Bridget holds a Masters Degree in Design Studies (Urban Design) from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) and a Bachelor of Planning and Design from the University of Melbourne.

Bridget is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 AIA NSW President’s Award, the 2014 Marion Mahoney Griffin Award by the AIA, the 2001 NSW Max Kelly Government Architecture Award (Venice Fellowship) and the 1999 National Women in Construction Lend Lease Women Development and the 2000 Innovation Award.  She is a member of the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Dean’s Industry Advisory Board . She served as board member of the UNSW College of Fine Arts, National Institute of Experimental Arts from 2010- 2015 and from 2003 – 2010 she was the Vice Chair of Object Gallery, Australia’s Centre for Design and Craft. She is an ambassador and founding member of the Australian Institute of Architects Venice Biennale Organizing Committee. Bridget holds Adjunct Professorship at UTS .

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.