Juror: Robert Backhouse

HASSELL (Vic)

Robert is the Managing Director of international design practice HASSELL and has built a reputation for design leadership through major projects in Australia and Asia. His broad portfolio of built work includes a range of commercial and residential commissions from some of the world’s largest and most complex workplaces to unique apartments and houses.

One of his recent projects, the ANZ bank’s global headquarters in Melbourne was the overall winner of the 2010 World Architecture Festival Awards Interiors and Fitout category. 

An interior designer who promotes collaborative, transdisciplinary design practice, Robert’s work has been widely publicised and recognised by several major awards.  He is regularly invited to speak and contribute articles for publication on latest thinking in interior architecture and design.