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Cathy Smith
Cathy Smith is a registered Australian architect, interior designer and senior lecturer in interior architecture at UNSW, where she is also the inaugural Turnbull Foundation Women in Built Environment scholar (2018–20). With professional qualifications and a Ph.D. in architectural theory and history (University of Sydney), her design practice, scholarly research and teaching focus on small-scale urban, interior and temporary installations, both public and private. As an academician, she has taught in the subject areas of architectural design, history and theory and construction at several Australian universities including the University of Queensland, the University of Newcastle and Queensland University of Technology. She was also a Richard Rogers fellow (Harvard University GSD, Fall 2018), and a visiting professor at Carleton University (Winter 2019 and 2020). Her scholarly research on do-it-yourself (DIY) architecture and DIY urbanism has been widely published as book chapters and in international journals including Australian Feminist Studies, Architectural Histories, Interstices, Architectural Theory Review, IDEA and Design Ecologies.
Contact: Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney, Kensington Campus, NSW, 2052, Australia.
