Rob Adams, an architect and urban designer, is Director of Melbourne-based urban design practice Adams Urban. Previously City Architect and Director of City Design at the City of Melbourne, for over 40 years, Rob helped lead the rejuvenation of central Melbourne. He received an Order of Australia in 2007, was awarded the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year in 2008 and the Australian Institute of Architects’ National President’s Prize in 2018. The City Design Division he led between 1986 and 2020 received over 160 international, national, state and local awards for design excellence.

Rob represented Australia as a member of the World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow from 2008-2022. He is a regular keynote speaker at international and national conferences. He has contributed to numerous publications, including leading the award-winning Transforming Australian Cities (2009) and as an editor of Urban Choreography – Central Melbourne 1985— (2018).

Since forming Adams Urban in 2020, the practice has been commissioned on projects in Victoria, the ACT, Queensland, NSW, and Tasmania.