Kirsteen Mackay is a British and Australian architect, who is the

South Australian Government Architect South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

. She is a registered architect in the United Kingdom and South Australia. Mackay studied architecture at the

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and ...

and completed her post-graduate degree in design at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...

in London. She has 15 years experience in private practice, such as Marks Barfield Architects, and was former Head of the Design Review at the UK's

Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) was an executive non-departmental public body of the UK government, established in 1999. It was funded by both the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for C ...

(CABE) for four years. Mackay was also a director of her own architecture firm Springett Mackay Architecture. She was associate government architect in the Office for Design and Architecture SA (ODASA). In November 2014 she was appointed Acting Government Architect and Acting Manager, Architecture and Built Environment. In July 2015 Mackay was appointed the South Australian Government Architect. In this role she leads the Architecture and Built Environment Directorate of the SA Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure, along with the SA Design Review program.

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