Sacha Coles

National Studios Director, Registered Landscape Architect, AILA



Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons 1), RMIT

Sacha is the National Studios Director and founder of ASPECT Studios Sydney. His focus is to ensure that the studios are recognised as a rigorous design offices, consistently producing high quality work. Sacha has been involved in the planning and design of significant award winning public landscapes locally, nationally and internationally, most notably receiving both the ‘Medal’ and the Sir Walter Burley Griffin award for urban design for Pirrama Park. Over the last 12 years as a director of ASPECT Studios, the Sydney studio has received over 30 design awards and he has written and been published widely in relation to the office’s work.

Sacha is enthusiastic about advancing the exchange of ideas within landscape architecture and has given talks in Zurich, Beijing, Sydney, Adelaide and New Zealand. He continues to be involved at Universities : UNSW where he is a member of the UNSW’ Faculty of the Built Environment academic advisory board, UTS, University of Adelaide and Victoria University and Wellington as an invited critic for graduating studios. He is the immediate past president of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects NSW and is currently on the executive committee.

 

Fields of Experience

Recent Professional History

  • 1999-Current  ASPECT Studios
    National Studios Director

  • 1998-2002 University of New South Wales - Associate Lecturer Part time lecturer in the program of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment

  

Recent Professional Achievements / Panel and Board Positions

  • 2011 IFLA World Congress ‘Topos Seminar’, Zurich - Guest Speaker
  • 2011 UNSW Built Environment Graduation Ceremony - Guest Speaker
  • 2011 AILA NSW Executive Committee
  • 2010 - 2011 UNSW Built Environment Advisory Council
  • 2010 Unlandscaped Jury Panel
  • 2010 Academic Advisory Council UNSW
  • 2009-2010 AILA NSW President
  • 2009 Lecture and visiting critic University of Adelaide
  • 2009 External Examiner UNSW