About

Andres Suarez Ruiz

NPrA Architects Accreditation Council of Australia 2019

Master of Architecture 2011

Bachelors of Architecture 2002

Andres commenced his architecture career back on his native country of Colombia where he graduated with a bachelors of architecture.

He moved to New Zealand in 2002 where he worked and lived in several cities, working on a variety of projects with diverse scales and typologies.

After a period of working across New Zealand, he studied a Master of Architecture in Sustainable Design at the University of Auckland in 2008.

In 2011 he moved to Sydney where he has been working in close collaboration with Furio Valich from G+V Architecture (previously Gordon Valich Architects) since 2012 until Furio’s sudden and sad death in early August 2021 .

Whilst working at G+V he has been involved in high end residential, inner city housing, hospitality projects, offices and commercial building developments.

Working in a boutique practice of two people, he has gained experience dealing with all aspects of architecture from concept to developed design, consultant coordination and project delivery

Andres has completed the National Program of Assessment with the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia and is a NSW registered Architect