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Bio

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mads Gaardboe studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, School of Architecture (B.Arch. and M.Arch.) and urban design at Columbia University, New York (M.Sc.UD). He has been a practicing architect in Denmark, Tanzania, Australia, and the U.K., where until 2002 he had a practice in London. He has worked on a variety of projects but specialised in urban design and hotel developments internationally. For a period of time he was attached to the National Capital Development Commission, Canberra. In 1996 he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Liverpool John Moore’s University and Associate Director of Liverpool School of Art and Design. In 2004 he left Europe to take up the position as Professor of Architecture at the University of South Australia. He was Head of the School of Art, Architecture and Design, until his retirement in 2017. He is now Adjunct Professor at UniSA.

His architectural research areas cover urban design in particularly related to new towns, and hotel/resort developments. He has authored a number of journal articles and books / chapters. He is a former Vice President of the Liverpool Architectural Society (RIBA), a Councillor of the Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture in the U.K., a Subject Specialist with the British Quality Assessment Agency for Higher Education, and has been an advisor and external examiner for a number of architecture schools in Britain and Australia. He was a long-term member of the Federation of Danish Architects (MAA).

Among contributions to committees and boards nationally, he was Deputy Presiding member of the City of Adelaide Urban Design Advisory Panel, has been a member of the City of Adelaide Development Assessment Panel 2007 to 2012 and 2017 to present. He was a member of the Australian Deans of the Built Environment and Design (ADBED), and of the Advisory Panel for Architecture, University of Canberra and for agIdeas. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), the Architects Registration Board (U.K.) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art (U.K.).