Nigel Bertram FRAIA

Nigel Bertram is a founding Director of NMBW, Practice Professor in Architecture at Monash University and Adjunct Professor at The University of Western Australia. He has a Master of Architecture from RMIT and was awarded his PhD from the same university in 2010. Nigel has taught at Monash and RMIT Universities for over 25 years, and has been a Design Review Panel member for the Office of the Victorian Government Architect since 2012. He has authored a number of research publications, most recently In Time with Water: Design Studies of 3 Australian Cities edited with Catherine Murphy (UWA Publishing, 2019). Nigel brings experience working with government and university bodies at different scales on NMBW’s urban and institutional projects.

Nigel has previously led the NMBW team working on the RMIT New Academic Street project, a complex renovation of existing buildings within a tight urban campus involving a multi-firm design team with lead consultant Lyons. Nigel was also NMBW lead on the Student Precinct redevelopment at University of Melbourne Parkville Campus, where NMBW designed significant renovations and additions to four buildings, including the heritage-listed 1888 and Frank Tate Buildings, and contributing to the overall group precinct master plan. Nigel has experience across a wide range of building types and scales, including managing projects with complex historical and environmental conditions. He was a lead researcher at the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities from 2016-2020, working on projects around urban resilience and climate adaptation.