Past Committee Member

Ruth is a practicing architect and has been registered for over 30 years in Brisbane, Queensland where she has practiced. Ruth has been involved in State and locally listed heritage places for over 15 years and since 2005 has had her own practice as a sole practitioner specializing in conservation and adaptive re-use of culturally significant sites.

Ruth is also a member and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) and a member of the National Trust.

Ruth has won awards from the AIA and the National Trust for some of her projects. While an Associate with DEM in Brisbane, Ruth was the project architect for the first and second stages of the Ipswich campus of the University of Queensland and the architect for the adaptive re-use of the Rhyndarra stables at Yeronga which is her family home. Both these projects won a regional award from the AIA and the latter also won a John Herbert Gold Award from the National Trust.

From 2001 to 2004 Ruth was the Associate Director for major projects for the Queensland University of Technology and directed the consultant teams in design and construction of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village and Creative Industries Precinct within the former Gona Barracks which is a large State listed heritage site.

From 2002 to 2009 Ruth was a member of the Queensland Heritage Council (QHC). Through the QHC she was a member of the Development Committee from 2002 to 2003 and Chair of the committee from 2005 to March 2008. Ruth was also a member of the Heritage Register Advisory Committee of the QHC in 2004.