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Roderick Simpson is a principal of Simpson Wilson Architecture + Urban Design.

His particular interests are regeneration of the existing areas of cities, particularly post industrial landscapes, ecologically sustainable design and "strategic urban design".

Since winning equal first place in the Olympic Village competition on behalf of Greenpeace and co-authoring its Strategy for a Sustainable Sydney in 1992.   He has applied and developed many of the ESD principles outlined in that initial work, to the final bid for the construction of the Olympic village, the new suburb of Stanhope Gardens which received a national planning award in 2000, the Kogarah Town Centre project and to the design for a new town in Jamaica which won an international competition amongst other projects. With his friend Richard Leplastrier he has advocated cultural uses for many of the redundant industrial sites around the harbour, worked with Rick and other designers on the "Harbourings" exhibition at the Museum of Sydney which received the Premiers award for architecture. He subsequently worked for the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, collaborating on the development of its approach to the reuse of the sites which had been entrusted to it. In that capacity he introduced MIXEDINDUSTRY , events and cultural development consultants to the Trust which culminated in the "Cockatoo Island Festival" in 2005. Currently he is Director of Strategic Development for the Metropolitan Strategy is working on the extension of BASIX to the broader planning application known as METRIX. He has won numerous accolades, the most recent being the 2005 RAIA NSW Presidents Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Practice of Architecture.

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