Building & Construction
Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is one of Sydney’s leading public intellectuals. Currently writer in residence at the University of Sydney’s Henry Halloran Trust, she was for 30 years the Sydney Morning Herald’s weekly principal essayist on urban planning and city-making. Trained in architecture and philosophy, with a PhD in urbanism from the University of Sydney, she is a director of the National Trust NSW, a former City of Sydney councillor and a former associate professor (practice) at UNSW. Author of several published books, she is a Walkley-shortlisted writer, an internationally awarded architecture critic, a former assistant editor of The Architectural Review, London, inaugural chair of The Australian Award for Urban Design, a regular commentator on urban affairs and contributor to Architectural Record NYC. Her most recent book is Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City’s Soul (Picador 2021).
