Carey Lyon is a founding director of Lyons, one of Australia’s largest and most innovative architectural design practices. Lyons is committed to the intellectual exposition of architectural practice, actively folding conceptual ideas into the realities of delivering major projects.
Carey is an acknowledged leader in design within Australia, evidenced by the multi-award-winning projects he has led and co-led, and by his long-standing role as professor of architecture at RMIT University and peer-elected positions for national architecture bodies.
Carey was national president of the Australian Institute of Architects in 2006/2007 and has also been a board member of the Green Building Council of Australia; he is a current member of the Victorian Design Review Panel. He has been awarded a Life Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Architects and the Presidential Medal from the American Institute of Architects.
His practice’s work has garnered more than 100 national and international design awards, including the Victorian Architecture Medal (2002, 2018 and 2023) and the Queensland Medallion (2022).
Lyons represented Australia at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2000, 2008, 2014 and 2023. The practice’s work has been extensively nationally and internationally published, including in a monograph by Thames and Hudson called More: the architecture of Lyons 1996–2011.
