Mark Burry


Mark Cameron Burry 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. He is also executive architect and researcher at the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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.

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 , 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.

Awards