Megan Rule

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Megan Rule
File:Photo of Megan Rule.jpg
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

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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

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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

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