Rate My Professor Anne Ware

Professor Sue Anne Ware is an Honorary Professor in the School of Architecture and Built Environment within the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her research interests encompass creative practice research, landscape architecture, memorials, placemaking, and urban design, particularly addressing the needs of disadvantaged communities through design activism, anti-memorials, and interventions in public spaces, cities, streets, and country towns.

Ware has a distinguished career as a former Head of the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, where she oversaw academic and professional personnel, budgets, strategic outcomes, and fostered collaborations with industry partners such as Renew Newcastle, local councils, Hunter Development Corporation, and firms including AECOM, Multiplex, and LendLease. A registered landscape architect and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), she convened the AILA national conference in 2009 and represented Victoria on its National Council. In 2013, she became the first landscape architectural academic nominated to the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts. She has served as a member of the Deans of the Built Environment, contributing to ERA quality peer reviews and national accreditation in architecture and construction management. Internationally, Ware was a visiting professor and researcher at ETSAB Barcelona and ENSP-Versailles in 2014, and delivered lectures and workshops at Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Michigan, KU Leuven, University of Virginia, University of Cape Town, and others. She chaired juries for awards including State of Design Awards (2008) and AILA State Chapter Awards (2012/13).

Her major awards include the 2010 AILA Excellence Award for Research and Communication, an ARC Discovery grant (DP 110100939, $150,000), and funding from the Japan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (USA), and Graham Foundation. Key publications feature books such as "Making Sense of Landscape: The Practice of Taylor, Cullity & Lethlean" (2014), "Sunburnt: Landscape Architecture in Australia" (2011, with Julian Raxworthy), and chapters like "Learning to Practice Creatively: Emergent Techniques in the Climate Emergency" (2022). Creative works such as the SIEV X Memorial, St Andrews Bushfire Memorial (2016), and Power Plants (2018) have garnered international awards from IFLA, AILA, and ASLA.