Gerard Reinmuth is the inaugural Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture at UTS and director of TERROIR, an award-winning Australian architectural practice with offices in Sydney, Hobart and Copenhagen. Gerard’s research spans both architectural practice (including sustainability, procurement practices and larger questions of agency) and research by design.

Gerard’s research combines both practice-based and theoretical outputs. His practice-based explorations are focused on the agency of the architect in the making of the city and the broad bandwidth across which this agency may be affected, while his design work explores the intersection between poetics and organisation in architectural design. His research and teaching project at UTS is titled “Towards a Relational Architecture” (in collaboration with Professor Andrew Benjamin), which is centred on questions around the agency of the architect in contemporary society.   

As an architect, Gerard has worked on highly influential projects in Australia and Europe. Under Gerard’s leadership, TERROIR has featured in numerous international publications, biennales and awards programs for its built work and has made a significant contribution to local and international architecture culture. TERROIR projects have been featured in a number of international exhibitions and publications including AV Monographs special issue on emerging architects, the Phaidon 10x10/3 volume and the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture.  A monograph on the practice, titled TERROIR: Cosmopolitan Ground was published in 2007; TERROIR: Instruments and TERROIR: Third Spaces were both published in 2019. The practice has also been featured in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2012 and in the Australian Pavilion in 2010 and 2008. 

Gerard has taught and lectured at schools of architecture in Australia and Europe, including at the Aarhus School of Architecture where he co-founded an international studio subject and wrote a book on the school. He writes and comments on issues affecting the profession and teaching of architecture to equip students for the challenges of working in the globally interconnected society of the 21st century. Gerard is an active contributor to architecture through his writing, speaking and teaching work, as well as through his involvement with the Australian Institute of Architects, and is a leading voice in discussions, publications, exhibitions, lectures and projects around the development of Sydney. 

He curated and designed the Sydney exhibition for the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2017, was co-curator of the Australian Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale, and was the Creative Director of the National Architecture Conference (Parallax) in 2009. Gerard has been on numerous juries and advisory panels, including for the National RAIA Awards and the Australian Institute of Architects National Awards. He is a founding member of the Australian Architecture Association and a former NSW Practice Committee Member and NSW Chapter Councillor.


Fellow, Australian Institute of Architects

Recent awards:

WAF World House of the Year: Castle Cove House

Chicago Athaneum International Award (Landscape): Penguin Parade Visitor Centre

Chicago Athaneum International Award (Public Domain): Koondrook Wharf

Australian Institute of Architects, William Wardell Award for Public Buildings: Penguin Parade Visitor Centre