Speakers

Dr Matthias Irger is an experienced architect and urban designer specialising in regenerative design and planning, carbon reduction and climate adaptation. He champions an evidence-based, collaborative, and interdisciplinary approach and is driven by a passion to reconcile the objectives of liveability and a zero-carbon economy, and its practical application in architecture, urban design, and strategic planning. As the National Head of Sustainability at COX Architecture, Matthias oversees the practice’s sustainable design and planning agenda and sustainability services.

Matthias is a member of the NSW State Design Review Panel, co-founder of the Australian Architects Declare Product Aware platform, and recipient of CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Research Flagship Award and Living Future Oceania’s Hummingbird Award.