Angela Xu

Angela is a graduate at Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects with experience across heritage, civic, and urban housing projects, working between practice, research, and representation.

Graduating from the University of Sydney, Angela was awarded the ADP Graduate Show Open Jury Award for the top graduating project across the Master of Architecture cohort. She also received the AA Prize for Unbuilt Work and the Dulux Colour Awards student category in 2025.

Drawing sits at the centre of Angela’s practice, as a way of making and remaking place on the page.

Her work has been exhibited at the Tin Sheds Gallery and published in CIRCA Issue 02: Veneer, following a travelling studio to Paris led by Pritzker Winning Architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. During an exchange at Aalto University, she undertook fieldwork in Ghana’s Dagbon region in collaboration with UNESCO, resulting in two publications: Built to Last: A Study of Tradition and Change in Northern Ghana and Living Corridors: Reclaiming the Landscape of Kumasi. These examine vernacular architecture and urban ecological restoration.

Angela is a sessional academic at University of Technology Sydney, where she tutors research-based studios focused on more-than-human design and water systems, grounded in practices of noticing, listening and care for the landscapes that surround us.