Mark Cameron Burry AO (born 24 February 1957) is a New Zealand architect. [1] He is the Foundation Director of Swinburne University of Technology’s Smart Cities Research Institute. [2]
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. [3] He is also executive architect and researcher at the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [4] [5]
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1957, Burry is the son of All Black Hugh Burry. [6] 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.
Previously, Burry has been a visiting professor at University of Liverpool, [7] the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Victoria University of Wellington. He has collaborated with Gehry Partners LLP, dECOi Paris, [8] 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. [9]
Burry has published widely on the Sagrada Família, digital architecture and design computing. He is a member of the Architectural Design editorial board. [15]