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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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2023 Tatuhi | Drawing Archive Selection
11 January 2023The A+W NZ Tātuhi / Drawing Architecture: Sarah Treadwell Archive annual aquisition is Sea Wall Erosion, Lise Jansen-Luke.
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A+W NZ Awarded Inaugural NZIA John Sutherland Practice Award!
22 November 2022Congratulations to every single A+W NZ member and volunteer - A+W NZ has been awarded the inaugural Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of
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Media Surrounding Elizabeth Cox's Making Space
21 November 2022The three book launches for the wonderful Making Space - by Elizabeth Cox and published by Massey University Press - were wonderful celebrations for a very important book.You can see more information about our launches here; -
Elizabeth Cox on 76 Small Rooms podcast
4 November 2022The latest podcast on the wonderful 76 Small Rooms (Soundcloud) is Making Space author and editor Elizabeth Cox.
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A+W NZ Featured on Parlour, 2021
19 May 2022A+W NZ are very proud to have featured on the Parlour website, in their 'Action in the Field' series. In this series, Parlour brings together the excellent
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Celebrating Julie Stout's Gold: Video 03-Julie's adventurous Spirit
4 March 2022Julie Stout is its first female recipient to be awarded the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal. To celebrate Julie, and to acknowledge Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA in their selection,
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2021 Tatuhi / Drawing Archive Selection
26 January 2021The A+W NZ Tātuhi / Drawing Architecture: Sarah Treadwell Archive annual prize for 2021 has been awarded to Jonathan Morrish
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Architecture Graduate Progression to Practice in New Zealand: 1987-2018
23 April 2020Architecture Graduate Progression to Practice in New Zealand: 1987-2018
Haarhoff, E, Boarin, P & Allen, N. (2020) Architecture Graduate progression to Practice in New Zealand: 1987-2018. Research Report, School of Architecture and Planning,
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02: Diversity
20 September 2018The Workplace Revolution Series - 02: Diversity
Architecturenz Aug/Sept 2018, pp30 - 39.
Following from the first article in the Architecturenz magazine
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A+W NZ Co-Chair Interviewed by Diversity Agenda
16 July 2018A+W NZ Co-Chair was interviewed by Diversity Agenda before the launch of their website and #20for21 project earlier this year. Here we reproduce their article, with the link to the original here.
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A+W NZ Interviews Past NZIA President Christina van Bohemen
12 June 2018To mark the significance of her term as the second female President of the NZIA, A+W NZ met with Christina van Bohemen on Monday 11 June 2018, to record in an interview some of her thoughts and reflections on her experiences as President. We know that having a female leader
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Keep Our Library Collections Intact
19 April 2018Architecture, Planning and Fine Arts Library CollectionsMost of you will be aware that there are changes being made with The -
Professor Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul Inaugural Address
3 June 2017A+W NZ member Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul presented her Inaugural Professorial Address at AUT University on
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Gender and Architectural Practice in NZ. Gina Hochstein
6 January 2017GENDER AND ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
by Gina Hochstein, March(Prof) Student, The University of Auckland SoAP
‘I say to young women today, don’t cast out your feminist awareness: when the glass ceiling hits you, you will think
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A+W•NZ feature in NZIA Venice Publications
30 July 2016The NZIA Venice Bienale 2016 exhibition Future Islands, led by Kathy Waghorn (Assistant Director) and Charles Walker (Director), has been a huge success, has been
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4 Interviews by ArchitectureNow
19 April 2016Amelia Melbourne Hayward asked several architects some questions about the professional side of working in architecture. She wrote two articles for Architecture Now, published online on
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Portico by Sophie Hamer
23 January 2016Portico - a new website resource for secondary and tertiary students who are interested in architecture.
As mentioned in the NZIA Bulletin 22 January 2016,
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RNZ Interview - Tessa Forde & Panel
4 January 2016RNZ Sunday Arts interview, Sunday 3rd January 2016 'Designing New Zealand'.
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J Gatley - Women in New Zealand Architecture: A Literature Review
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NZ Architecture 04 2014
11 October 2014NZ Architecture 04 2014 included a section on architecture and women, with articles and reviews as follows;
Lynda Simmons - Let's Look at the Numbers
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Block Itinerary no.49
21 May 2014Architecture by Women 2003-2013 Block Itinerary No. 49
Block
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Recent NZIA statistics
14 April 2014Thank you to the NZIA for their Bulletin 14 March 2014, which included their recent research statistics, repeated here;
Did you know?
- 48% of NZIA Members are not Architects
- 23% of new Registered
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Helen Tippett Obituary, by John Gray
16 March 2014Helen Tippett (1933-2004) Obituary, by John Gray published in the Cross Section NZIA News May 2004. (Image from Cross Section)
Helen
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Snapshot 500: Architecture+Women New Zealand
10 November 2013Photograph: Simon Devitt
Snapshot 500: Architecture+Women New Zealand
editors Julia Gatley and Sara Lee
Published by Balasoglou Books, Auckland 2013
Published in
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Video Documentary A+W•NZ Public Works Media
16 October 2013In November 2012, A+W•NZ contracted Public Works Media to document the process towards the National Exhibition 2013 and related events, held September-November 2013 in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown.
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A+W•NZ: DIVERSE PRACTICE
9 October 2013The Wellington exhibition 'Diverse Practice' is based on a response to a survey that asked 7 questions about practice.
The text from the survey for the exhibition has been curated by
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Architecture+Women•NZ on Arts on Sunday
2 October 2013Lynne Freeman from the National Radio Arts on Sunday programme interviewed Lynda Simmons on 15 September 2013. You can
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Video: Glulam Project by Architecture For Humanity
23 September 2013On 14-15 September, the team working on the glulam beam project installed their design at the Silo Park site, to the area in front of the Silo 6 Gallery. The huge laminated beams, which have been donated from Air New Zealand from a recently dismantled hanger, were lifted,
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
11 July 2013Be visible: at Silo Park (Auckland) this September, in Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The nationwide A+W•NZ exhibition is coming soon.
Show how architecture is in your life: your work, your practice methods, your wider interests. Practice,
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Parlour Practice Guides
3 June 2013At the recent TRANSFORM conference held in Melbourne, the Parlour Group launched some incredibly valuable Policy Guidelines: The Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice. Parlour are now calling for feedback -
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Shelley Penn Talk, 25 May 2013 11am Auckland, NZ
27 May 2013Shelley Penn, the current (and outgoing) National AIA President, gave a very interesting presentation at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland on Saturday 25 May, 2013. She discussed
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Building as an unnatural act: the paper house. S.Treadwell 1993
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12 Questions to NZIA's new CEO Teena Hale Pennington
3 May 2013Teena Hale Pennington, the new CEO of the NZIA, answers 12 Questions posed by Sarah Stuart in the NZ Herald on Tuesday 30 April.
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Sarah Treadwell- Limited Visibility: Portraits of Women Architects
8 March 2013Using this Architecture+Women•NZ database as the resource, Dr Sarah Treadwell and Nicole Allen have published an article that looks at portraits of women architects in the latest Architectural Theory Review. Published by
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Peggy Deamer interview on BWAF website
31 January 2013'Architecture culture means the full social, philosophic, representational environment in which architecture is discussed, produced, experienced, and consumed.... Architecture is a broad field. It is visual and organizational, and the skill related to this can be applied
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Student work, Scope Magazine 2003/4
27 January 2013Scope Magazine, Issue 5 2003/2004 - an article by Brian Taggart on recent student work, featured 3 students; Lucy Gauntlett, Jacqueline Chan and Anna Harley.
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Spaces for Encounter NZ Architect 3 1999
11 November 2012Mark Taylor, at the time of writing head of interior design at the School of Architecture, Victoria University, writes about the practice of Burry & Burry Architects, which was in
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You Have No Idea. Gill Matthewson. 2009
14 October 2012Gill Matthewson reviews a history of how women have set up academic and professional support structures around women studying and working in architecture. From the Womens Institute of Architecture, created in the late 1970s, through to the 1993 Constructive Agenda exhibition
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Gill Matthewson: From Archi Parlour
15 June 2012'Take it to the Limit: women as architectural breach' Gill Matthewson April 23rd 2012
