Dean Landy

Partner, RAIA

BArch(Hons), BDes(Arch)(Hons)

“A strong sense of place is critical to a project’s commercial outcomes. We aim to create people focussed places that are unique and integrate with their surrounding context."

Dean Landy is an Australian architect and urban designer known for shaping liveable, walkable and commercially resilient cities, precincts and town centres. As Cities + Precincts Partner at ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects, he leads an interdisciplinary team working across urban renewal, new communities and regenerative development in Australia, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. He led the Tatu City Masterplan and Place Strategy project, which is shortlisted for the 2026 World Architecture Festival Award for Future Projects – Masterplanning.

Through deep community engagement, Dean develops masterplans, architectural concepts and place strategies that align long-term vision with commercial viability, ecological repair and economic uplift. His work spans major Australian growth and regeneration projects as well as Global South contexts, where the focus is on creating enduring impact with under-served communities.

With 28 years’ experience, Dean has led the design and delivery of major urban development projects across large-scale renewal, mixed-use precincts and new town centre design. An early advocate for 15-minute city thinking, he authored the 2016 book Creating Vibrant Communities, which helped shape industry thinking on healthier, more sustainable and more connected communities. His team’s Liveable Cities Framework builds on this methodology, drawing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and applied experience with leading developers including Rendeavour, the largest developer of new cities in Africa. 

Dean is also the founder of One Heart Musana, an NGO supporting vulnerable children in East Africa through sustainable villages co-designed with communities to provide care, education and pathways to economic empowerment. Across his commercial and humanitarian work, his focus is consistent: creating stronger communities through places designed for long-term social, environmental and economic value.

Selected Work

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Castle Towers

A suburban shopping centre transformed into a diverse mixed-use precinct