Megan Rule

Megan Rule
Born
New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
OccupationArchitect
AwardsHelen Tippett Award (2016)
PracticeSouth Pacific Architecture
BuildingsNorthland Waterfall Chapel

Megan Rule is a New Zealand architect.[1] She was a recipient of a National Association of Women in Construction Excellence Award in 2016.

Biography

Rule studied architecture at the University of Auckland, graduating in 1992. She has worked with community groups, not-for-profits, churches, clubs, Pacific groups, iwi, Ngā Aho, and accessibility organisations in New Zealand and internationally.[2] She has been a director for Habitat for Humanity and Architecture for Humanity.[3]

In 2000, Rule founded South Pacific Architecture in Auckland, focusing on architecture for diversity.[4] She is the chair of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects' Auckland branch.[2] Rule is also a teaching fellow at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland and co-founder of Architecture+Women NZ.[3] She was inaugural co-chair of the organisation for five years, from 2011 to 2016.[5][6]

Rule's work features in the book Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design by Bill McKay and Jane Ussher, and in The Phaidon 21st Century Atlas of World Architecture.[3]

Awards and honours

Rule's Northland Waterfall Chapel (2003) won the Premio Internazionale Dedalos Minosse Award in Italy, and was the first New Zealand project to win.[7][8] In 2016, Rule won the National Association of Women in Construction Helen Tippett Award for actively promoting women in construction.[9]

References

  1. ^ "AWNZ". AWNZ. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b "A+W NZ Interview with Chair of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Auckland Branch, Megan Rule – AWNZ [staging]". AWNZ. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "A house for life". The Design Guide. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  4. ^ "South Pacific Architecture". www.southpacificarchitecture.co.nz. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  5. ^ Gatley, Julia; Lee, Sara, eds. (1 January 2013). Snapshot 500 Architecture + Women New Zealand. Balasoglou Books, Architecture + Women NZ. ISBN 978-0-9876595-5-2.
  6. ^ "Megan Rule to step down as co-chair". Architecture Now. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Favourite things: Global Designs". NZ Herald. 20 May 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  8. ^ Cox, Elizabeth (2022). Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. p. 298. ISBN 9781991016348.
  9. ^ Stevens, Ben (15 May 2017). "National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Awards » Connexis | Infrastructure Training". Connexis | Infrastructure Training. Retrieved 20 May 2023.