Gill Armstrong

Gill is an urban researcher, working at the intersection of architecture, planning, and construction. She currently works in Climateworks Centre, Monash University leading projects to decarbonise and more efficiently use Australia’s existing buildings.
Her background spans more than 10 years’ experience as a registered architect (UK) and Chartered Architectural Technologist, specialising in adaptive reuse of residential and healthcare buildings. Gill is also research trained, earning her Ph.D. in the adaptive reuse and regulation of vacant office buildings in Australian city centres. She developed an innovative method to quantify and visualise vacancy in building populations.
Gill is collaborating with researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to produce a Sustainable Temporary Adaptive Reuse (STAR) toolkit in a project funded by a City of Sydney Knowledge Exchange Grant (2022-2024).
She is also co-editor & contributor to the research publication, ‘Resilient Building Retrofits’ (2022).
Gill holds a PhD (2020) University of Adelaide; Part 1-3 Architecture (Manchester School of
Architecture and De Montfort University). Gill is a chartered member of CIAT and registered with Architect's Registration Board (UK).