Heather Sutherland (1903–1953) was an Australian architect working pre- and post-World War II in Canberra, the nation's capital.
Their work is considered significant as it represents some of the earliest Canberran examples of 'truly modern design'.
[2] They eventually formed a partnership, producing works together from the 1930s to the 1950s until Sutherland's death in a car accident in 1953.
Their influential and "radical"[4] functionalist architecture existed in stark contrast to the Spanish Mission, and Georgian and Tudor revival styles that had dominated Canberra's nascent inner suburbs.
In recognition of the practice's impact on Canberra architecture, the city's branch of the Australian Institute of Architects named its residential award after the couple.