Professor James Weirick is an Australian academic who was the Director of the Master of Urban Development and Design (MUDD) program at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.
Professor Weirick is well known as a world authority on Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, the architects who won the international competition to design the masterplan for Australia's capital, Canberra.
Prior to joining UNSW in 1991, Weirick was Head of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University (1988–91).
He was a lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Canberra College of Advanced Education (1982–1986).
Weirick holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University.