Welcome to the Architecture + Women Archives
This is where we store articles and documentaries which deal with architecture and gender, in the hope to build a slow-growing and continuous resource for the academic and professional communities.
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RNZ Interview with Elizabeth Cox and Lynda Simmons
25 October 2022On Friday 21 October 2022, Making Space Editor and author Elizabeth Cox was interviewed on the
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100 Years of Auckland University @ Gus Fisher Gallery
5 November 2017The wonderful exhibition of 100 years of architectural drawings at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland has come down after 2 months of showing. Curated by A+W NZ member
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'I have set up Shop': Mary Taylor in Wellington, by Elizabeth Cox
1 April 2017‘I have set up shop!’: Mary Taylor in Wellington
ELIZABETH COX for Bay Heritage Consultants
Article originally published on www.bayheritage.co.nz/heritage-blog/ - reproduced
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A+W•NZ Awards 2014 Award Book by Studio Catherine griffiths
29 December 2014Visit the Studio Catherine Griffiths website page for an overview of the design and compilation of the first A+W•NZ Awards book. Designed by Catherine Griffiths, the small
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Put Your Hands Together by Bill McKay
3 December 2014Put Your Hands Together: Bill McKay at the Architecture+Women Awards 2014.
Bill McKay writes for Block - issue # 10 2014 , on his thoughts as a jury member for the inaugural A+W•NZ Awards 2014.
'If anyone doubts the need for and
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Maori Television: A+W•NZ 2013 Exhibition
4 August 2014Maori Television broadcast of Wednesday 25 September 2013:
NZ Architecture Week pays homage to women's suffrage
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HOMEFeb/March 2014 Favourite Building - Lynda Simmons
7 February 2014On the last page of each issue, HOME magazine publishes a 'My Favourite Building' image and commentary. The Feb/March issue has a favourite by Lynda Simmons, one of the co-founders of A+W•NZ. She chose The Teps, because of its personal historic and current links between her
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Janet Thomson: 'Women and Architecture, and the WIA Group 1979-85: a personal response'
18 May 2013Women and Architecture, and the WIA Group 1979-1985:
a Personal Response.
Janet S. Thomson, April 2013
Architecture was my dream
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The Design Studio and Women Students, 1992, Jane Rooney
26 March 2013In 1992, Jane Rooney prepared a research report while a student at the University of Auckland Architecture School, titled
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1st Mega-Meeting 22/2/13
26 February 2013Not an article, but a record in images of the first 'Mega-Meeting' for the planned September exhibition. Thanks to Public Works Media for the
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Lillian Chrystall, NZ Herald or Auckland Star 1977
23 February 2013A snippet of history from 1977, after Lillian Chrystall received an NZIA Branch Award for the (Philip) Yock House. (Thanks to Robin Allison)
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Profile: Lillian Chrystall, by L.Naismith, 2005
11 February 2013Lindley Naismith wrote this profile on Lillian Chrystall after interviewing her in December 2004. For more information on Lillian and Chrystall
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Nelson Mail Article: Min Hall and Mary Dorothy Edwards
30 January 2013Fiona Cassie featured architects Min Hall and Mary Dorothy Edwards for the Nelson Mail in 1993, while the touring 'Constructive Agenda' Exhibition was showing in Nelson.
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Eulogy: Mary Dorothy Edwards, by Min Hall
30 January 2013Mary Dorothy Edwards, 7 February 1909 - 7 September 1995. Eulogy written by Min Hall. Mary Dorothy Edwards was the third women in New Zealand to graduate with an architectural degree, in 1939.
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The Ladies' Mirror 1923
20 January 2013Apparently women in 1923 could not design homes without first having experience in housewifery. How male architects have coped with house design for all of these years is not addressed, however. Thanks to Bill McKay for sending in this article from The Ladies' Mirror,
