Rob Brown FAIA is the design principal of CaseyBrown the Sydney based architectural practice known for creating a portfolio of authentic, elegant and timeless contemporary buildings over the last 35 years. These buildings blend seamlessly with the diverse Australian natural and built environment as celebrations of the craft of building.

On graduating from UNSW in Sydney he moved to London to take up a travelling scholarship from the SPAB working on Historic building repair and adaption in the UK. This unique experience led to working for a series of UK architects before returning to Australia to take up a position in the Department of the Environment, Heritage Council. He subsequently moved to New York to complete a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from GSAP at Columbia University. Graduating with the LSL Memorial Prize for Design Excellence and Kinne Travelling Scholarship to Mali to study the ancient pise cities of the Dogan of the Bandiagara Escarpment on the edge of the Sahara desert.

Returning to Sydney in the early 1990’s he founded Casey Brown Architecture an architectural studio with now over a 150 built projects across Australia. The studio is devoted to creating contemporary architecture through an organic understanding of building. To design in direct response to climate, topography and lifestyle. This perspective creates a preference for lasting architecture of unpretentious functionalism, characterized by a richness of palette and detail throughout. By seeking to solve problems we transcend solutions to create memorable spaces. This non-prescriptive approach takes each client, site and brief as something one-off and special. CaseyBrown has remained a small studio to give very personal service from the initial client meeting to the completed project.

The practice has won numerous awards including the AIA Lachlan Macquarie and Francis Greenway Award, the Canberra Medallion, the RIBA World Wide Award for Architecture and the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, the German Design Award and numerous AIA awards and commendations. Rob has been a studio master in the Master of Architecture course at UNSW since 2010 and a design tutor at Sydney University Faculty of Architecture with a focus on Architecture for Humanity.

Rob Brown FAIA