Lee Hillam is the 2016–17 chair of the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Committee for Gender Equity, a co-director of Dunn Hillam Architects and a senior design adviser for the NSW Office of the Government Architect.
Lee Hillam's Latest contributions
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
The inventive refurbishment of an existing performance venue extends the community’s opportunities and opens up the growing suburb’s civic heart.
Music, desert and sky: Cobar Sound Chapel
A years-long discussion between composer and architect has resulted in an immersive sound–design experience inside an old water tank at the desert’s edge in New South Wales.
Architecture as storytelling: Quay Quarter Lanes
In central Sydney, AMP Capital and the City of Sydney have astutely brought together a diverse collection of architectural voices to produce a fine-grain precinct with an organic feel and a historic sensibility, despite its controlled genesis.
An act of civic pride: Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre
The collaborative design for a public pool and recreation centre in the Green Square precinct of Sydney’s inner-east reflects a harbour-and-headland landscape and thoughtfully caters for the diverse needs of the whole community.
Third-gen city-making: 44A Foveaux Street
By treating an existing, undistinguished building as raw material, the architect has recognized the structure’s inherent value and acted with an ethos of sustainability and “a deliberate and joyful irreverence” in equipping it for the city’s changing needs.
The architecture of interdependence: Escarpment House
An ageing farmhouse in a dramatically isolated landscape is paired with a new companion building to achieve an off-the-grid home that harmonizes with the natural environment.
Making a community: Arkadia
A community-minded apartment block for Defence Housing Australia in an inner-Sydney suburb plays with the boundaries between public and private space, salutes the site’s industrial past and anticipates a fossil-fuel-free future.
Tall ambitions: Short Lane
As Sydney pursued a public conversation about brutalist architecture, a new building in Surry Hills was making its mark.
Cowper Street Housing
Appearing as an object in the landscape and giving generously to its inner-Sydney context, Cowper Street Housing by Andrew Burns Architecture reasserts the well-loved terrace as a relevant and useful housing type.
Long hours: Go hard or go home!
Lee Hillam reflects on the long-hours culture in architecture and asks: What is the real cost of this exploitative practice?
