Mark Burry
Mark Cameron Burry (born 24 February 1957) is a New Zealand architect. He is the Foundation Director of Swinburne University of Technology’s Smart Cities Research Institute. Previous to that, he was the Professor of Innovation and Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and founding Director of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Name
- Mark Burry
- Born
- 24 February 1957
- Birthplace
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Occupation
- Architect, Academic, Professor
- Nationality
- New Zealand · Australia
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of Australia
- Languages
- English
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Mark Cameron Burry (born 24 February 1957) is a New Zealand architect. He is the Foundation Director of Swinburne University of Technology’s Smart Cities Research Institute. Previous to that, he was the Professor of Innovation and Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and founding Director of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
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He is also executive architect and researcher at the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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• Name — Mark Burry • Born — 24 February 1957 • Birthplace — Christchurch, New Zealand • Parents — Hugh Burry • Education — University of Cambridge • Occupation — Architect, Academic, Professor • Significant Projects — Sagrada Família
Early life and family
Early life and family
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1957, Burry is the son of All Black Hugh Burry. He studied architecture at the University of Cambridge, receiving a BA in architecture in 1979, a Diploma in Architecture in 1982 and an MA in architecture in 1989.
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Mark Burry was born at Christchurch.
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Books
• The Innovation Imperative: Architecture of Vitality (with Pia Ednie-Brown and Andrew Burrow), Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, • Scripting Cultures: Architectural Design and Programming, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2011, • Sagrada Familia sXXI: Gaud ara-ahora-now (with Jordi Coll Grifoll and Josep Gomez Serrano), Ediciones UPC: Barcelona, 2010, • The New Mathematics of Architecture (with Jane Burry), London: Thames & Hudson, 2010, • Gaudi Unseen: Completing the Sagrada Familia (ed.), JOVIS Verlag: Berlin, 3008, • La Sagrada Família: de Gaudí al CAD (with Jordi Coll, Josep Gomez, Juan Melero), Ediciones UPC: Barcelona, 1996, 9788483011485 • The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Família, London: Phaidon Press, 1993,
Research, collaboration and teaching
Previously, Burry has been a visiting professor at University of Liverpool, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Victoria University of Wellington. He has collaborated with Gehry Partners LLP, dECOi Paris, Foster and Partners and Arup and was a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council in 2005 as part of the working group examining the role of creativity in the innovation economy.
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Awards
• William J Mitchell International Chapter Prize, Australian Institute of Architects, 2024 • Officer of the Order of Australia, 2018 • Federation Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2006 • Award for Innovative Research, ACADIA, 2006 • Achiever Award (Creative Melbourne), Committee for Melbourne, 2004 • Diploma I la insignia a l’acadèmic correspondent, Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, 2003
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- 1.McIntyre, Janet. Gaudi's Legacy. Foreign Correspondent. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- 2.Professor Mark Burry to lead Swinburne's Smart Cities Research Institute.
- 3.RMIT University. Professor Mark Burry. Design Research Institute.
- 4.Fitzpatrick, Lisa. The Gaudí code. Barcelona Metropolitan. 28 September 2011.
- 5.Crittenden, Stephen. Gaudi from The Grave. The Global Mail. 2012-02-11.
- 6.Barton, Chris. A Kiwi completes Spain's grand design. New Zealand Herald. 15 January 2011.
- 7.University of Liverpool. Staff directory. School of Architecture.
- 8.dECOi Architects. Team.
- 9.Australian Government. The Role of Creativity in the Innovation Economy. The Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.
- 10.2024 International Chapter Architecture Awards – Winners Revealed. Australian Institute of Architects. 30 June 2024.
- 11.Australian Government. BURRY, Mark Cameron. It's an Honour.
- 12.Australian Government. Federation Fellowships Selection Report for Funding commencing in 2006. Australian Research Council.
- 13.Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture. Awards. ACADIA.
- 14.Committee for Melbourne. The Melbourne Achiever Awards.
- 15.Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. Burry, Mark Cameron. Curriculums of the Academicians. October 2025.
- 16.John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The Editorial Board. Architectural Design Magazine.
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