Mike Louw is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Built Environment Program at the School of Design and the Built Environment at the University of Canberra. He holds a BArch degree from the University of Pretoria, an MPhil degree in Sustainable Development Planning and Management from Stellenbosch University, and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cape Town. Mike’s professional experience includes working in the United Kingdom from 1999-2001 where he was involved with large commercial interior projects, before returning to South Africa where he was one of the Directors of a multi-disciplinary architecture, landscape architecture and urban design practice. He worked there from 2001- 2011, during which time he completed numerous residential and commercial buildings, and several industrial adaptive re-use projects. He joined the University of Cape Town full-time in 2012 where he taught design and technology until 2022. He was the project leader for its annual design-build project from 2012 – 2017, and he was the architectural team leader for Team Mahali, which won 2nd place in the architecture contest at the Solar Decathlon Africa held in Morocco in 2019. He joined the University of Canberra full-time at the beginning of 2023, where he teaches design and technology across the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His research interests are architectural technology, sustainable and low carbon material use, adaptation, and Southern architecture and urbanism.