Kirstie is an advocate for promoting discussion and cross-pollination across professional platforms and circles.

She is a registered architect, currently holding a project management position at RPS. Her strong focus continues to be on the advancement of architecture and design, a greater awareness and promotion of the profession (including deviations of such) and connection between research and practice. She recently completed her Graduate Certificate in Applied Project Management and is currently undertaking her Masters in Applied Project Management - Contract Management and the Advanced Leadership Program through Women & Leadership Australia.
She has held senior management positions in large architectural studios; always keen to contribute to company and staff progression, continual improvement and value add initiatives and promote diversity. Her clients have varied across private, corporate and government sectors, both local, rural, interstate, national and international, a focus on educational, community, sporting and health portfolios.

Her private sector professional experience is accompanied by awareness of the South Australian government sector, with roles in Project Management and prior position as Senior Architect at the Office of Design and Architecture South Australia (ODASA) Design for Government team.

Kirstie has significantly contributed to promotion of the profession through her involvement in practice and her affiliation with professional bodies. She is passionate about promoting other facets of the Design and Construction Industry; a South Australian Chapter Councillor for the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA), an RAIA fellow, RAIA Designers for Diversity Committee Member, RAIA SA Education Committee Chair, RAIA National Education Committee Chair and previous sat on the Property Council of Australia Diversity and Inclusion Committee and National Women in Construction (NAWIC) SA chapter council. She likes to wear many hats – a common joke with her peers.

Kirstie graduated from the University of South Australian in 2007 having worked at a small Adelaide studio during her studies, gaining valuable practice experience in all facets of project delivery. She has been a member of several larger South Australian studios where her strengths in communication, organisation and planning made her a valuable and approachable team member. Undertaking each project with the same ‘no-nonsense’, meticulous, and methodical manner. Kirstie takes great pleasure in creating responsive spaces to meet her clients’ requirements; approaching design as a conversation and a tool by which to influence and increase quality of life, creating places responsive to their context and surrounding influences.

She is dedicated to architectural education; having been involved both in formal mentoring programs through the Institute, informal mentoring in practice and has sat on jury panels for final year University student presentations, most recently the 2022 RAIA Victorian Graduate Prize.