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Following is a list of notable architects from New Zealand.
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Following is a list of notable architects from New Zealand.
Anthony Lawrance Treadwell was an early member of the Wellington Architectural Centre and an accomplished modernist architect, architectural educator and painter. His architectural work has been published in numerous articles in New Zealand Home and Building, the Arts Year Book, the Journal of the N.Z.I.A. and the Wellington Architectural Centre's Design Review.
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) is a membership-based professional organisation that represents approximately 90 per cent of registered architects in Aotearoa New Zealand and supports and promotes architecture in New Zealand.
Julie Margaret Stout is an architect, academic and urban design advocate based in Auckland, New Zealand. She is a Distinguished Fellow of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) and a professional teaching fellow at the University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning. She was awarded the 2021 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medal.
Lillian Jessie Chrystall was a New Zealand architect. She was the first woman to receive a national New Zealand Institute of Architects award.
Architecture + Women New Zealand(A+W NZ) is a membership-based professional organisation of women in architecture in New Zealand. The organisation promotes diversity, inclusion and equity in architecture through events, membership, advocacy and publication. The group also runs the tri-annual Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards.
The Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards is a tri-annual set of awards which recognise the contribution of women to the field of architecture in New Zealand. The awards recognise full bodies of work and community connections.
Lucy Adelaide Greenish, also known as Lucy Adelaide Symes, was a New Zealand architect who became the first woman to become a registered architect in New Zealand.
Julia Gatley is an architect, academic, architectural historian and author from New Zealand. As a historian and author Gatley has contributed knowledge about New Zealand's built landscape. She is the author of the book Athfield Architects about one of New Zealand's most well-known contemporary architects Ian Athfield and is a regular commentator about New Zealand's architectural history.
Dorothy Mary Wills, also known as Dorothy Mary Coulthard, was a New Zealand architect, and the second woman to become a registered architect in New Zealand.
Jackie Gillies is an English and New Zealand architect based in Queenstown. She specialises in architectural conservation and repair of historic buildings.
Sarah Treadwell is an artist, architect and academic in New Zealand. She was the first female full-time academic staff member in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her academic career spanned from 1981 to 2017, her year of retirement. Treadwell was Head of School at the School of Architecture and Planning from 2009 to 2012.
Min Hall is a New Zealand architect and academic. She was the first female graduate in architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, in 1979. After practising in Nelson, she moved to lecturing at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. She specialises in sustainable building materials such as earth and straw bales, and environmental issues in architecture. Hall is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Margaret Munro, was a New Zealand architect. She was the first female architect to establish a career in the Canterbury region.
Lindley Rae Naismith is a New Zealand architect. She established Scarlet Architects and went on to co-create the Scarlet Prize in Architecture. Naismith has performed the role of judge for the New Zealand Home of the Year Award as well as the Te Kahui Wahaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects awards. She is a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects and in 2017 won the Munro Diversity Award at the Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards.
Renate Prince born Renate Prinz, is a German-born, New Zealand-trained architect who worked in Auckland in the early 1950s as part of the architecture and development group Structural Developments and then as a partner in Hobin Prince Architects. She is known for jointly designing, along with Dick Hobin, two experimental and modernist houses, the Taylor House at 16A Mays Road, Devonport, and the Bryant House at 81 Forrest Hill Road, Milford. As at 2023 both these houses can still be seen in Auckland. She subsequently moved to London in the 1950s and continued to work there as an architect and architectural engineer for over 40 years.
Alison Shepherd, was a New Zealand architect practising in England. She was likely the first New Zealand woman to attain membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects. She contributed to the design of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford, and is known especially for her line-drawings in Edward Gunn's Regency Houses series, and in John Summerson's book Georgian London.
Felicity Wallace is a New Zealand architect who has been in practice since 1989. New Zealand's Home magazine recognised one of her designs as "Home of the Year" in 1997. She teaches design at university level and she continues to lead and design.
Deborah Cranko is a New Zealand architect. She is a recipient of 2015 National Association of Women in Construction Excellence Award.
Nicola Herbst is a South African–New Zealand architect, specialising in baches and beach houses using timber, stone and other natural materials. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Yvette Overdyck is a New Zealand architect.
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