Anna is an emerging architect and researcher who has won multiple awards for her work. She currently works with Architecture AND (formerly Andrew Burns Architecture) and leads a design studio at USYD, focusing on collaborating with communities to create resilient and respected projects. Anna also has experience working in a design support role to public artists including Janet Laurence and Turpin and Crawford, which has instilled in her a mindfulness for creativity, story, and invention. Underpinning her approach is a commitment to and a love of drawing as a means to understand and as a means of expression.

In her role as project architect at Andrew Burns Architecture she has led a significant regional project for National Parks and Wildlife Service to construct a suite of new facilities at Wombeyan Caves Campground. She is also working across a range of residential and commercial projects of varying scales. She has previously worked at Hayball and gained extensive experience in the education sector on projects across New South Wales, ACT and Victoria.

In 2021 she co-curated ‘Emergence’, an exhibition at the Tin-Sheds gallery celebrating decades of Byera Hadley architectural research with over thirty-five exhibitors. After an opening that saw hundreds of the Sydney architecture community come together, the exhibition featured an online digital twin and public program with more than 20 speakers.

Anna has worked extensively with academic Dr. Michael Mossman across a range of projects connecting with Indigenous knowledge. Together they were highly commended for the 2021 AIA NSW Reconciliation Prize for their co-taught undergraduate design studio in the Architecture Faculty at The University of Sydney. In 2019 this led to presenting a workshop and paper at Stanford University, USA at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Fall conference.

She has also acted as research assistant to Michael Tawa, developing the first archive of Indigenous design resource material for The Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA) as well as assisting the Institute of Architects’ Reconciliation Working Group to help support their vision of a RAP for the NSW chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.

In 2019 Anna was awarded the NSW Architects’ Registration Board’s Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship, where she explored methods of inclusive, culturally sensitive designing to foster cultural exchange. For Anna this experience placed a sense of humanity at the core of architecture's agenda as it has the capacity to celebrate a generosity of spirit.

Anna has received several architectural prizes, including the Ethel M Chettle Prize in Architecture, Ross Langdon Design for Sustainability Scholarship, James Hartley Bibby Memorial Scholarship and was nominated for the AIA NSW Graduate medal in 2018. She was highly commended in the ‘research’ category of the Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA) and has contributed to papers and publications including the Architecture bulletin and the London Architecture association journal PNYX.