Ian Nazareth

Ian Nazareth is an architect, researcher, and educator whose work spans architecture, urbanism, and post-carbon futures. He is a Research Leader at the Super Urban Lab, a multidisciplinary research cluster within the RMIT University School of Architecture & Urban Design that explores future scenarios for buildings and cities through experimental design practice. Ian also co-hosts SUP – The Super Urban Podcast.

He is a senior member of the Post-Carbon Research Centre (PCRC) at RMIT, which addresses the urgent challenge of decarbonising the built environment and its infrastructures to transition toward sustainable, equitable, and resilient futures.

Ian is the founder and director of TRAFFIC, an internationally recognised and award-winning design practice operating across architecture, urban design, computational design, and speculative futures. He has held significant academic and leadership roles, including Program Director and Head of Urban Design at RMIT University and Associate Director at the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai.

His professional practice, research, and teaching focus on the relationship between architecture and the city, and his work has been exhibited and published internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Barcelona Architecture Festival, and the Media Architecture Biennale.

Ian regularly contributes to architectural discourse through lectures, symposia, podcasts, and exhibitions. As an essayist and critic, his writing has appeared in The Architectural Review (UK), MONU (Magazine on Urbanism), Architectural Review Asia Pacific, and the Australian Design Review.

He is a registered architect with the Council of Architecture and serves as series co-editor for The Practice of Spatial Thinking (ACTAR).