Elizabeth Farrelly

Columnist, Author & Speaker

Dr Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who trained in architecture and philosophy, practiced in London and Bristol and holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Sydney, where she is also Adjunct Associate Professor.

Elizabeth Farrelly was Assistant Editor of the Architectural Review in London, an independent Sydney City Councilor and inaugural chair of the Australia Award for Urban Design before lapsing into fulltime writing.

Elizabeth holds a number of national and international writing awards including the Paris-based CICA award for architectural criticism (1992), the Adrian Ashton Award (1994), the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (2001), and the Marion Mahony Griffin Award (2002).

Her books include Three Houses, a monograph on 2003 Pritzker prizewinner Glenn Murcutt (Phaidon, London 1993) and Blubberland; the dangers of happiness (MIT Press, 2007). 

Elizabeth Farrelly writes a weekly opinion column and has written critical columns on architecture, urban design and planning for the Sydney Morning Herald. She has also written insightful essays in the Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum, and articles in international journals as well as The Age, the Bulletin, the Architecture Bulletin, Architecture Australia, Architectural Theory Review, Interior Design, Pol Oxygen and Monument.

An articulate and engaging speaker, Elizabeth Farrelly has made several television and radio appearances and spoken publicly, often sharing the stage with Hon. Paul Keating.

Elizabeth Farrelly talks about:

Architecture (her background discipline), design, the arts, planning, the environment and social commentary.