Peter Richards
Peter is a registered architect with a masters degree in urban design. He is highly respected for his strategic thinking and design leadership on projects at all scales and complexities from urban regions and centres to individual buildings and places. Throughout Australia, he is sought after for his expertise in collaborative design processes and contributes to defining its practice here. Underscoring his work is a strong understanding of urban quality and the rich relationship between people and place to form a sustainable regional urbanism.
Peter has directed the practice’s involvement in significant master planning and transit oriented projects, including the award winning Varsity Station Village, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Health City Springfield and the Bowen Hills and Yeerongpilly TODs. He has also contributed to planning for new settlements in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the Northern Territory and most recently, Western Australia.
Peter often combines urban design with architecture and is currently designing two significant high density CBD projects in Brisbane – a residential apartment development in South Brisbane and a large scale, mixed-use project in inner Fortitude Valley, incorporating residential, retail and commercial uses.
Peter is committed to research as an integral and consistent part of his work and recently led the practice’s contribution to the Next Generation Planning Project. He is an adjunct professor at QUT, a member of the Board for Urban Places and former chair of the Centre for Subtropical Design. He is actively involved in a range of research projects, most notably those dealing directly with design thinking and urbanism, settlement form and patterns, new housing typologies, character and place. He is a published author and contributes regularly to universities, local and international conferences on a broad variety of topics including how to draw.