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.[1]

Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards
Awarded forthe contribution of women to architecture
Sponsored byDulux
CountryNew Zealand
First awarded2014

The awards were first made in 2014. In 2020 the awards event was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Nominations are invited from the public, and a panel selects finalists in each category. The finalists are invited to an awards dinner where the recipients are announced. The award trophy is designed and made by Ainsley O'Connell.

Categories edit

 
Lindley Naismith, winner of the 2017 Munro Diversity Award

The awards are presented in three categories.

Wirihana Leadership Award edit

The award is open to all Architecture + Women NZ members who are in their second decade after graduation. The award is named after Moana Wirihana (Te Kawerau ā Maki) whose leadership saw the design and construction of many wharenui (meeting houses) in New Zealand.[3]

Munro Diversity Award edit

This award is "open to all genders, and looks specifically for evidence of continued support strategies for diversity in the workplace, including but not necessarily restricted to gender". The award is named for the structural problems in early New Zealand architecture where affluence was a requirement for education, and bias meant women often were not named architect even though this is what they were doing.[3]

Chrystall Excellence Award edit

This award is open to women with three or more decades of architecture practice. It is named for Lillian Chrystall who in 1967 was the first woman to win a New Zealand Institute of Architects national award.[3]

Judges edit

The jury for the 2023 awards had four members: Justine Clark, Craig Moller, Sarah Treadwell and Carinnya Feaunati.[4] The jury for the 2020 awards was Lori Brown, Julia Gatley, Raukura Turei and Andrew Tu’inukuafe.[1] The jury for the 2017 awards was Brit Andresen, Sharon Jansen, Anna Tong and Dave Strachan.[5]

Recipients edit

 
Sharon Jansen being awarded the Chrystall Excellence award by Sarah Treadwell, 2023.
 
Julie Stout, winner of the 2014 Chrystall Excellence Award
Year Award Recipient Notes
2023 Wirihana Leadership Award Raukura Turei, Monk Mackenzie [6]
Munro Diversity Award Kathy Waghorn, HOOPLA [6]
Chrystall Excellence Award Sharon Jansen [6]
Year Award Recipient Notes
2020 Wirihana Leadership Award Louise Wright, Assembly Architects [1]
Munro Diversity Award Jade Kake, Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism Ltd [7]
Chrystall Excellence Award Christina van Bohemen, Sills van Bohemen [8]
Year Award Recipient Notes
2017 Wirihana Leadership Award Bureaux Ltd (Jessica Barter and Maggie Carroll) [9]
Munro Diversity Award Lindley Naismith, Scarlet Architects
Chrystall Excellence Award Sarah Treadwell
Year Award Recipient Notes
2014 Wirihana Leadership Award Cecile Bonnifait, Bonnifait + Giesen Atelier Workshop [10]
Munro Diversity Award Justine Clark & Gill Matthewson, Parlour
Chrystall Excellence Award Julie Stout, Mitchell & Stout Architects

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Architecture+Women.NZ Dulux Awards 2020 Winners Announced". Architecture Now. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  2. ^ "AWNZ". AWNZ. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  3. ^ a b c Susie (2018-11-05). "Filling the gaps". Parlour. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  4. ^ "A+W Awards Jury 2023". www.architecturewomen.org.nz. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  5. ^ "Winners: A+W•NZ Dulux Awards 2017". Architecture Now. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
  6. ^ a b c "Celebrating Aotearoa, New Zealand female architects at the 2023 A+W•NZ Dulux Awards". AWNZ. 2 October 2023.
  7. ^ "Awards / Press". matakohe architecture + urbanism. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  8. ^ "Chrystall Excellence Award 2020 | Sills van Bohemen". Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  9. ^ "AWNZ". AWNZ. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  10. ^ "AWNZ". AWNZ. Retrieved 2023-03-31.