Ashley Dunn is a founding principal of DunnHillam, starting the practice in 2001 with Lee Hillam. Ashley has been fundamental to the success of the practice in bringing creative thinking, innovation in sustainability and construction and determination to complex public buildings. 

Ashley studied and worked in London, spending time in the offices of Caruso St John, David Chipperfield and McAslan before coming to Australia in 2000.  

Ashley has a partial role at the University of Sydney as Associate Professor of Practice and is an Adjunct Professor at UNSW and Visiting Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai. He taught for many years alongside Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin in the UNSW Regional Studios.

Ashley has been a member of the NSW State Design Review Panel and currently sits on the Design Excellence Panel for Cumberland City Council.

Ashley is expert in all aspects of architecture but if he had to choose might say his specialty is sustainability, culture and complexity – if you have an old building, that needs a new life as an art gallery or performance space and has layers of technical, stakeholder, planning and geographical complexity bring it to Ashley. 

Ashley is mad for getting in the ocean, no matter the water temperature, gets out on his mountain bike when he can, ferries his kids to lots of sport and cooks for fun.