Megan Rule

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

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

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 co-chair of the organisation for 5 years, from 2014 to 2019.[5]

Her 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.[6][7] In 2016, Rule won the National Association of Women in Construction Helen Tippett Award for actively promoting women in construction.[8]

References
  1. "AWNZ". AWNZ. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. "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 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. "Megan Rule to step down as co-chair". Architecture Now. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  6. "Favourite things: Global Designs". NZ Herald. 20 May 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  7. Cox, Elizabeth (2022). Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. p. 298. ISBN 9781991016348.
  8. Stevens, Ben (15 May 2017). "National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Awards » Connexis | Infrastructure Training". Connexis | Infrastructure Training. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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