Philip Vivian is a design director of Bates Smart, an award winning architecture practice with studios in Sydney and Melbourne. He holds a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University in New York and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Western Australia. Vivian’s design leadership has ensured numerous design excellence competition wins and awards, underpinning the successful growth of the Bates Smart Sydney studio over the past fifteen years. His projects have received thirteen Australian Institute of Architects’ design awards, ranging across Commercial Architecture, Interior Architecture, Urban Design, ESD and Heritage categories. He has completed campus offices for Leighton Group, TransGrid, New South Wales Police and New South Wales Attorney General’s Department.