Team

Alex Longley

Director

Alex founded Arcadia in 2011 to establish a landscape firm that is driven to create world-class landscape outcomes. His passion for connecting people with the landscape, and his longstanding industry relationships built on his ability to deliver exceptional projects, have helped Arcadia become one of the leading landscape architecture firms in Sydney. Also key to Arcadia’s success is the way Alex’s belief in nurturing team development has built a talented team within a collaborative workplace environment. Alex has provided the inspiration for a unique studio culture, including Friday BBQs on the deck, the annual ski trip and Arcadia’s famous Christmas parties. 

Michael Barnett

Director

Mike became a Principal of Arcadia in 2014 bringing an ability to create authentic and compelling open spaces. Mike excels at challenging the process and driving the team to deliver rigor and detail in their work. This results in project outcomes that exceed client expectations, strengthening Arcadia’s reputation for delivery of quality projects. Mike’s an adventurer at heart – whether you find him snow-boarding, on his motorbike or exploring Sydney’s newest open spaces with his family, you can be sure he’s finding inspiration for his innovative designs.

Nathan Clausen

Principal - Brisbane

Excited by the opportunities to help shape public domain in Brisbane, Nathan has been leading the Arcadia Brisbane studio since it was established in 2018. With a passion for designing inspirational places that activate and invigorate spaces for people to enjoy, Nathan has led the team to deliver imaginative, intelligent and client-focused design solutions in sectors as diverse as public realm, residential, retail, health, aged care retirement living, infrastructure, sport and recreation and education.

Nelson Gomes

Principal - Melbourne

With a passion for city-shaping projects and a love for design, Nelson has used his people-centric, collaborative and innovative design style to lead some of Melbourne’s most high-profile landscape architecture projects in recent years. His extensive experience across all project delivery stages and working in a range of scenarios, uniquely positions him to lead Arcadia’s Melbourne studio.

 

Chris Tidswell

Director - NSW

With a passion for designing memorable places, Chris’ approach is always specific to the site, creating a narrative to support the place and experience.His multidisciplinary qualifications allow him to provide extensive knowledge to create high quality designs in the public realm. He has Landscape and Architectural Masters Qualifications that are accompanied by a Project Management qualification, giving him a well-balanced and complementary skillset to deliver a market leading approach to Urban Design and Landscape Architecture.

Nicole Wilson

Principal - Sydney

If we could bottle and sell Nicole’s energy and her adventurous spirit, we’d be millionaires! If she’s not in the studio inspiring our teams to create world-class landscapes, she’s motoX riding with her boys, riding her Harley Davidson or embracing life on the sidelines as a footy mum. With over 15 years of diverse local and international experience, she has a considered design approach to every project she undertakes. Whether it’s a neighbourhood park for families to gather, or a village square with the flexibility to host events and pop-ups; Nicole’s desired outcome is a project which offers something for everyone. She believes that great design outcomes always stem from the collaboration of many minds. To have the opportunity to come together and generate innovative ways to solve even the most complex urban issues; the end result is always a project outcome that is thoughtful, resilient and enduring. There’s nothing more rewarding than creating new landscapes “that just work”.

Ben Newell

Principal - Brisbane

With 20 years of experience as designer and project manager, Ben has led multidisciplinary teams providing integrated, broad-based solutions on complex design and planning projects. After a childhood of cold Canberra winters it’s hardly surprising that Ben has embraced the laidback tropical lifestyle of Brisbane and a love of outdoor spaces. Designing high-end, sustainable and meaningful public realm & open spaces has become a passion for Ben, to the point where he spends his holidays photographing open spaces. Either that or indulging in his obsession with muscle cars!

Mitchell Audsley

Principal - Canberra

Born and bred in Canberra, Mitchell has returned to his hometown to lead the Arcadia Canberra studio. Mitchell specialises in multidisciplinary projects, with the vision to deliver functional and invigorating spaces which showcase his attention to detail through high-quality outcomes. With a keen interest in sustainability and horticulture, Mitchell not only aims to integrate these to optimise the user experience in his designs, he also spends any free time he has digging, planting, and tending the chooks creating his own productive garden. Lucky Canberra team to share in the yield from his garden!

Andrew Mason

Senior Associate

Andrew is one of the core members of the Arcadia team and our original Kiwi. While not a morning person, this ice hockey player is renowned for his appetite and a natural design flair that seeks elegant design solutions, often inspired by the richness and diversity of the local landscape environs. As the undefeated Arcadia champion, his karaoke skills are a thing of beauty as well…

Jason Taylor

Senior Associate

Jason is passionate about creating great spaces in South East Queensland, with a particular interest in designing urban open spaces and active parks. A strong believer in the culture of collaboration, Jason’s strength lies in fostering an openness and empathy with clients, as well as the relevant authorities, to ensure that the various stakeholders’ interests and goals are maintained.

Scott Jackson

Senior Associate

Scott has a multidisciplinary background, with qualifications in landscape, urban design and project management, bringing a unique perspective and a passion for working in master planning, the public realm, place and education. With industry-leading skills in Revit and BIM, Scott has considerable experience in leading large-scale, complex public realm projects projects from concept phase to construction.

Christoph Kaufmann

Senior Associate

Emma Van Lint

Senior Associate

Duyen Nguyen

Associate

Duyen grew up in the sleepy suburbs of Perth, indulging in television favourites, Burke’s Backyard and Backyard Blitz. It didn’t take her long to discover that there was far more to Landscape Architecture than backyard makeovers and she has relished the opportunities this career opened up for her. Duyen’s passion for major infrastructure projects appeals to her strength as a technical coordinator. With an early career spent between Perth and Bangkok, she left sunny Perth behind to move to Melbourne in 2013, continuing her love affair with fast-paced cities. In her spare time, Duyen makes the most of Melbourne’s arts, culture and food scene. Her current obsession is buying plants (mostly ferns!) which are then passed on to her non-landscape architect husband, who’s even more passionate about gardening.

Daniel Drummond

Associate

Abdul Fahim Razali

Associate

Abdul is a visionary urban designer and landscape architect who brings conceptual thinking, creative design solutions and in-depth analysis to citymaking projects, aiming for a high quality experience in our urban environment. Outside of work, he splits his time between painting and spending time in nature, so it’s little wonder he’s ended up in a career that combines both these passions. Abdul has considerable experience collaborating in multidisciplinary projects ranging from urban renewal & revitalisation, transport infrastructure, place making and cultural projects.

Kate Phillips

Associate

Kate is a strong believer that a great design outcome is the product of a strong vision, hard work, and a dedicated multidisciplinary team. No stranger to hard work, Kate is almost constantly in training for different triathlon events. She’s also a great example that landscape architects aren’t landscape gardeners – her bathroom plant is the first plant she’s managed to keep alive!

Annabel Lewis

Associate

Let’s get the obvious out of the way – Annabel’s amazing hair! The hair that was voted runner up in Schwarzkopf’s Most Beautiful Hair competition in 2013 is the first thing we all notice about Annabel. Beyond the mane is a former rural resident who cares deeply about creating drought tolerant, sustainable landscapes. She’s also strongly drawn to education-based projects and loves to draw on the experience of her teacher parents to gain insights for her designs. Annabel’s weekends are filled with bushwalks, country visits and sharing food and wine with friends.

Stacey Edwards

Senior Landscape Architect

Stacey – she’s All Blacks and not Wallabies. She’s Halloween and never Christmas. She’s books over TV and she’s coffee, not tea. And best of all she’s “Hell yes, I’ll give it a go” and we love her for it! Since joining us as a Landscape Architect, Stacey’s innovative ideas around WSUD infrastructures, as well as her love of trees and fauna, have helped to create her unique landscape design style which are an asset to any project.

Victor Lu

Senior Landscape Architect

Victor is a landscape architect with over ten years of experience in landscape architecture, architecture and urban design. He has worked on a diverse range of projects from large-scale urban, architectural master plans to domestic scale boutique landscape and interior design across Australia, China, and the United States.

With qualification in both Landscape Architecture and Architecture, Victor has continuously practiced design in an interdisciplinary manner where he explores the junctures of art, design and technology and how they interweave into spatial and social environment, with an aim to create and foster positive design outcomes for end-users, clients and stakeholders alike.

Peter Mattick

Advisory Board Member

Julie Savet Ward

Advisory Board Member

Emma Shipley

Advisory Board Member