People

People

Our team comes from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, united by a passion for design excellence. Our focus on fostering a supportive, inclusive, well-balanced studio environment earned us the Best In Practice prize at the 2020 NSW Institute of Architects Awards.

Our Team

Loading

Nuala Collins
Design Director

  • Architect NSW 10457
  • B. Design (Interior) (Honours) - Massey University

Since joining Carter Williamson in 2013 with years of international experience in Europe and New Zealand, Nuala has led some of our larger projects, including the conservation of heritage wool store Hinchcliff House for AMP Capital’s Quay Quarter Lanes precinct and a new performance studio and STEM classroom for Burwood Girls High School.

Nuala brings to the studio not just her interior design perspective, but the practical experience of working for several years in Switzerland with Studio Daniel Libeskind and Bakker & Blanc Architectes Associés, and in Copenhagen as a set designer for scenographer, Rikke Juelland.

Underpinning Nuala’s humanistic and performance philosophies in design and architecture is a long association with thinking, teaching, and experimenting through competitions and artistic collaborations. She has taught at UTS, Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and the Victoria University of Wellington. In the public realm, she produced Coast Totems for Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi (2014, with Ben Peake & Linda Matthews), the Model Practice exhibition (2013, Sydney Architecture Festival), a small-scale urban design intervention for Parramatta City Council, a theatre set for Walsh Bay Arts Precinct (2012), and a female urinal in Copenhagen (2010-2011).