Craig Allchin
Director

Adjunct Professor of Architecture
University of Technology, Sydney

Craig Allchin is an Australian architect and urban designer. He has worked on the city across a range of scales. In the 1990s, as a founding partner of Six Degrees Architects, Craig worked on recycling and renewal projects around the revitalisation of the Melbourne City Centre. He moved to Sydney and spent five years working between Sydney and China as principal Urban Designer for Urbis, Sydney completing over 40 district and city masterplans. He was then Director of Urban Design, for the 2005 and 2010 Metropolitan Strategies for Sydney. 

He returned to Australia in 2015 after living in Brooklyn, New York for three years, where he worked as a visiting professor of Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He continues to consult on various projects to government and the private sector, focusing on strategies at both the macro and micro scales of the city.

1991—1999
Six Degrees Architects
Melbourne 

A founding director of the award winning Melbourne architecture practice Six Degrees—a small to medium sized, design focussed architectural practice involved in commercial, retail and hospitality and urban renewal projects, often recycling materials and buildings. During the 1990’s Melbourne’s downtown was transformed from a quiet, under–utilised city centre into a vibrant, active and highly liveable city, often ranking at the top of international liveability indices. Six Degrees was one of Melbourne’s pivotal architectural practices, designing and operating a range of hospitality and residential projects, often using recycled materials with a design focus around materiality and personal space and human connection, that became a signature of the new Melbourne style. 

2010—present
Director
Six Degrees Urban 

2019—2024
Part time Director Design
Ethos Urban, Sydney

2015—2019
Inhouse Urban Design Lead
Masterplans and Strategy
Lendlease

2015
Visiting Professor and Lecturer in Urban Design, Graduate School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lecturing Masters students in LARP.

2012—present
Board Member
Renew Australia
Urban Renewal Foundation

2011—
Adjunct Professor of Architecture
University of Technology, Sydney

2010—2011
Lecturer, Masters of Architecture Course, University of Technology, Sydney.
Delivered a course based around the question ‘Who Designs the City?’ bringing economists, demographers, journalists, politicians and other disciplines who shape our cities in as guest speakers. Continuing role as Adjunct Professor at UTS.

2011—2012
Historic Houses Trustee
(Sydney Living Museums)
Appointed by NSW Minister for the Arts

2010—2012
Lecturer, Urban Design
University of Technology, Sydney

2009—2012 
Board Member
Renew Newcastle, Urban Renewal Foundation

2005—2010
Director Urban Design
Metropolitan Strategy
NSW Department of Planning

2000—2005
Principal Urban Designer
Urbis Sydney & China

1994—2000
Board Member
Melbourne International Fringe Festival

1995
Registered Architect, ARBV

1984—1989
Bachelor of Architecture
University of Melbourne