The regeneration of regional town centres and High Streets.

Ashley Dunn is a founding director of Sydney based practice DunnHillam Architecture + Urban Design and is Professor of practice in Architecture at the University of Sydney, Adjunct Professor at UNSW and Visiting Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai. Ashley studied and worked in London and Germany, spending time in the offices of Caruso St John, David Chipperfield and McAslan before coming to Australia in 2000.

The work of DunnHillam has won industry awards from the NSW Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), NT AIA, National Trust and Houses Awards. Ashley’s work has been widely published both Nationally and Internationally. He has expertise in housing, heritage and adaptive reuse projects, master planning and design for arts, culture and tourism, and has a particular interest in development in rural and regional Australia. Ashley has developed specialist expertise in the application of sustainable design principals and systems, as demonstrated in the award winning Junee Library project. He has co written a research paper titled

Thermal Comfort Reality in the Australian Climate

A case study of the Junee Library, Junee NSW and Aries House, Wantiool NSW and his current research interests are the regeneration of regional town centres and High Streets.

Ashley is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, was one of the inaugural members of the NSW State Design Review Panel (SDRP) and has sat on the Design Excellence Panel for Cumberland City Council and the Sutherland Shire Independent Hearing and Assessment Panel (IHAP).