About
Ruth Redden is a registered architect with over 15 years experience. She has expert knowledge in the conservation, management, repair and adaptive reuse of historic sites and has a reputation for providing practical, timely and best practice advice with integrity.
Ruth enjoys working with homeowners, design professionals and asset managers to help navigate heritage planning requirements. She understands critical timelines and seeks to achieve best practice design and conservation outcomes for every project.
Ruth’s planning experience is drawn from her current and previous roles as heritage advisor to multiple inner city municipalities, where she advises on developments within local heritage overlay areas. She has provided heritage advice to clients in most Victorian local government areas and for numerous places included on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Ruth is currently an alternate member of the Heritage Council of Victoria (HCV). She is a current and past International Specialised Skills Institute fellow, and PhD candidate at Melbourne University, researching in the area of ‘heritage and sustainability’.
As a member of a number of technical committees including at ICOMOS (Aus), National Trust (Vic), and the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ), Ruth has provided advice on the environmentally sustainable management of historic assets.
