Isabelle is passionate about ensuring places have enduring value and meaning for the communities they serve. Often working collaboratively with artists, academics, and researchers, Isabelle has a particular interest in process-based practices and relational work that enables architecture to grow with its environment — recognising it as just one part of a broad and complex ecosystem.

Isabelle is experienced in a wide range of project scales and typologies, specialising in sites with layered and significant cultural and heritage contexts. Working from concept design through to construction completion, she excels at balancing a project's poetics and pragmatics within time and budgetary constraints.

Isabelle is an experienced designer, as dedicated to built detail as she is to the broader concept. She looks to draw out locally specific narratives through design, creating inclusive and inspiring environments that advocate for cross-generational and cross-cultural belonging.

After graduating from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours and a University Medal, Isabelle received a Byera Hadley Student Travelling Scholarship for research into social housing. She has undertaken artist residencies in Beijing and Berlin and is actively involved in the architectural, design culture and creative arts communities.

Isabelle is a regular public speaker and educator, engaged in teaching and critique across all of Sydney’s schools of architecture as well as the University of Newcastle and has taught at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

Isabelle has served on numerous government, institutional, and industry advisory panels and juries, and writes regularly for Architecture Australia.