My father, the architect and designer Rodney Uren, who has died of lymphoma aged 63, left a profound mark on the cities of London, Bilbao, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Perhaps the best known of the buildings he designed with his colleagues at the Hassell practice is the Olympic Park station for the 2000 Sydney games. Environmentally sensitive and beautifully engineered and detailed, it expresses many of Rodney's design ideals.
From 1983 to 1993, Rodney was the design director at Foster and Partners, for whom he handled major projects such as the Bilbao metro. He went on to work on Canary Wharf station before leaving Norman Foster's office to return to his homeland of Australia with his wife, Joy, whom he married in 1971, and their six children.
The son of a mechanic, Rodney was the youngest of five children. He grew up in the grassy open countryside of Geelong, in Victoria, south-east Australia, before the city's main industrialisation. Rodney started studying industrial design locally at the Gordon Institute of Technology, where the syllabus was strongly biased toward Bauhaus principles.
Headhunted by Foster's office, he went to work on the interior of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank headquarters, which won awards all over the world, and was also part of a team that designed a table and workstation system which now sit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Endlessly innovative, Rodney constantly sketched, designed, painted and created cartoons. Most recently he wrote the libretto for a musical, Masterpiece, and a novel, The Train Salesman. He was a gifted, self-taught guitarist who in his youth led a group called the Reigning Cats and Dogs.
An extraordinary man, he will be remembered for his originality, creative spirit, sense of humour and kindness.
He is survived by Joy, from whom he was divorced, and their children, Tierry, Jesse, Kass, Tim, Kate and me; as well as his three grandchildren, Toby, Thomas and Viviana.