Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based author and columnist who is trained in architecture and philosophy and holds a PhD in urbanism from the University of Sydney. She is a former Associate Professor (Practice) at UNSW Graduate School of Urbanism and a former City of Sydney Alderman and Councillor. A weekly columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald she is the author of several books including Glen Murcutt: Three Houses, Blubberland; the dangers of happiness and Killing Sydney; the fight for a city’s soul. She is a Walkley-shortlisted writer, an internationally awarded critic, a former Assistant Editor of The Architectural Review, London and a regular commentator on urban affairs in Sydney and internationally. Her portrait by Mirra Whale was a finalist in the 2015 Archibald Prize and she is currently building an off-grid dwelling in rural NSW.
“Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as crucial to next-stage evolution as ending race slavery was to the last stage. It's a noble fight, not least because the various fundamentalisms threatening Western democracy are united in their urgent need to re-cage women's sexuality.”