Jane Aimer

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Jane Aimer
Alma mater University of Auckland
Occupation Architect

Jane Elizabeth Aimer is a New Zealand architect. [1] [2]

Biography

Aimer attended the University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning and then transferred to Victoria University in Wellington for two years. After graduating, she returned to Auckland and worked at architecture firm CPRW for around twelve years. She left to start her own practice. Aimer shared an office with fellow architect Lindley Naismith and in 2000 the pair joined their businesses and established Aimer Naismith Architects. Mike Dowsett joined the company shortly afterwards and it was renamed Scarlet Architects. [3] [4]

In 2009, Aimer and Naismith designed and built mirror-image townhouses, with shared common areas, in Newmarket for themselves and their extended families to live in. [5]

Aimer was the last chair of the Architects Education Registration Board prior to its disestablishment in the mid-2000s. [6] She was also the first chair of the New Zealand Registered Architects Board. [7] In 2020, Aimer convened the judging jury for the Auckland Architecture Awards. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "NZRAB – Architect Details". www.nzrab.nz. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Directors". app.companiesoffice.govt.nz. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Architect profile: Jane Aimer". Architecture Now. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "Scarlet Architects | ArchiPro NZ". archipro.co.nz. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  5. ↑ Hawkes, Colleen (12 March 2019). "Architect friends talk about their 'social living experiment' 10 years on". Stuff. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  6. ↑ Matthewson, Gill. "Where Do You Go To?: The Class of '76". Interstices: Auckland School Centenary Special Issue.
  7. ↑ Cox, Elizabeth (2022). Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. p. 247. ISBN   9781991016348.
  8. ↑ NZ Institute of Architects. "2020 Auckland Architecture Awards announced". NZ Institute of Architects (www.nzia.co.nz). Retrieved 4 June 2023.
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