Lianna was inspired to pursue architecture, unusually, by a video game that depicted a city under the sea. This ambitious impossible vision of how people could live captured her imagination and set her on the path to become the architect she is today. She graduated from QUT in 2016 with her Masters of Architecture. Since then, Lianna has worked across a broad range of sectors, including aged-care, education, and multi-res and high-end residential. She is always seeking opportunities in these sectors to work on unusual and ground-breaking architecture.

Having been shortlisted in Sydney’s Affordable Housing Competition (2017), contributed to the Property Council of Australia’s Best Practice Principles for Seniors Community Design (2017), and worked in high-end residential projects across Victoria, Lianna has developed an acute understanding of what a ‘home’ means to people of diverse backgrounds.

Her warm and generous energy encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing between her peers. It has also given her access to a broad-reaching range of her peers’ unique insights.

She has a keen interest in sustainability and biophilic design with a view to whole ecological integration in the near future. As part of this, she is currently studying to become a WELLS-accredited professional.

Based in Melbourne, Lianna is a project architect for Hayball.