Philip Thalis

Philip Thalis is Principal of Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects. Philip actively promotes the culture of architecture and city making, combining directing the practice with teaching, research, conference papers and public lectures and architectural criticism. The substantial book Public Sydney; Drawing the City (co-authored with Peter John Cantrill) was published to acclaim in 2013. In 2016 Uro Publishing released Minomono #2 on Hill Thalis’ work. In 2009 Philip was awarded the AIA NSW Presidents Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Architectural Profession (jointly with Peter John Cantrill), and in 2019 was made a Life Fellow of the AIA. In conjunction with practice, Philip served a Councillor of the City of Sydney (2016-21) and is Professor of Practice in Architecture (fractional) at UNSW.

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.