Julia Fairley is an architecture, design and lifestyle writer who specialises in exploring how the built environment affects us culturally, socially and physiologically. She studied Interior Architecture before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales in Australia and becoming a journalist. Her articles have been translated into French, Spanish and Russian and her work has been published in Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Europe and America. She lives in Sydney, Australia and is the founder and director of Casa Communications.