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Yvette Overdyck
Yvette Overdyck is a New Zealand architect. Biography Overdyck completed a degree in architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. She has worked at Herbst Architects and Stevens Lawson Architects, where she was a senior associate. In 2024 she co-founded Lammas Overdyck Architects. Overdyck was part of the team that won the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Medal for work on Blyth Performing Arts Centre, at Iona College in Hawkes Bay. Overdyck worked with Dorita Hannah and Raukura Turei on the design, which was completed in 2014. Overdyck was also the joint project architect for another large classroom and library building at the school. In 2023, Overdyck was a juror for the New Zealand Institute of Architects Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) is a membership-based professional organisation that represents approximately 90 per cent of registered architects in Aotearoa New Zealand and supports and promotes architecture in ... Au ...
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Ellen Melville Centre
The Ellen Melville Centre is a community centre located in Freyberg Square in central Auckland, New Zealand. It is named after Ellen Melville, the first woman to be elected to the Auckland City Council and the second New Zealand woman to become a lawyer. History Melville proposed a community hall in the central city as a centenary project to mark 100 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and to commemorate the work of pioneer women in the establishment and development of Auckland. However work only got underway in the late 1950s and the hall was opened in 1962 as a base for women's societies. The original building, named the Pioneer Women's & Ellen Melville Memorial Hall, was designed by Auckland City Chief Architect Tibor Donner. It cost £56,200, including a £30,000 donation from the Queen Street Business Association, £19,000 from the Auckland City Council and £8,000 raised by 64 women’s organisations. The centre was extensively refurbished and reopened in ...
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose. Etymologically, the term architect derives from the Latin , which derives from the Greek (''-'', chief + , builder), i.e., chief builder. The professional requirements for architects vary from location to location. An architect's decisions affect public safety, and thus the architect must undergo specialised training consisting of advanced education and a ''practicum'' (or internship) for practical experience to earn a Occupational licensing, license to practice architecture. Practical, technical, and academic requirements for becoming an architect vary by jurisdiction though the formal study of architecture in academic institutions has played a pivotal role in the development of the p ...
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Unitec Institute Of Technology
Unitec ( Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka) is the largest institute of technology in Auckland, New Zealand. 16,844 students study programmes from certificate to postgraduate degree level (levels 1 to 9) across a range of subjects. The main campus is situated in Mt Albert while a secondary Waitākere campus is situated in Henderson and there are various pop-ups throughout the North Shore. It also offers programs overseas. History Unitec was founded as Carrington Technical Institute in 1976 on the Mt Albert site on Carrington road, which has 55 hectares of grounds. The area on which Unitec's main campus is located was formerly home to the Whau Lunatic Asylum, later known as Carrington Hospital. The name changed to Carrington Polytechnic in 1987 and then to "Unitec Institute of Technology" in 1994. Unitec applied for University A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discip ...
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Iona College, Havelock North
Iona College is a state-integrated girls' school in the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand's North Island. Founded in 1914 by the Presbyterian Church, it was intended to provide boarding facilities for girls from rural communities. Today, the college has a capped roll of 330 New Zealand and international students – 170 boarders and 160 day girls. Iona is consistently ranked amongst the top schools in New Zealand for academic results. A large performing arts centre and information centre started being built in March 2013 and were finished halfway through 2014. During the 100 years celebration that took place in March 2014 tours were conducted of the partially finished buildings. History Iona College is the oldest Presbyterian School in New Zealand. It was established as a girls' boarding school built on land donated by Hugh Campbell. The Prime Minister, the Right Honourable W F Massey, opened Iona College on 14 February 1914. Iona opened with a roll of 48 pupils who were acco ...
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Dorita Hannah
Dorita Hannah is a New Zealand architect, independent academic, visual artist and designer. She has had an architectural practice, taught at various institutions in New Zealand and internationally, and has published articles and book chapters including Event-Space: Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde (2018). Education Hannah trained in architecture, receiving her BArch (hons) at the University of Auckland in 1984. She received two postgraduate degrees at New York University: a Master of Arts with Distinction in Performance Studies in 2000, and a PhD with Distinction from the Tisch School of the Arts in 2008. Professional life Hannah had an architectural practice with Felicity Wallace called Hannah Wallace Architects. They designed the Watershed Theatre (1991-1996) on Auckland's waterfront. This happened twice: the first completed in 1991 was demolished, and was located where the New Zealand Maritime Museum currently is; the second was completed in 1993. ...
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Raukura Turei
Raukura Maria Turei (born 1987) is a New Zealand artist, actor and architectural designer. She works with Māori people, Māori iwi to design community-focused developments at the architectural practice Monk Mackenzie Architects. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout New Zealand, and she appeared in the New Zealand film ''The Dead Lands.'' Early life and education Turei was born in Auckland in 1987. She is Māori and affiliates with the iwi (tribes) of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and Ngā Rauru, Ngā Rauru Kītahi. Her father is Māori and her mother is Pākehā. Her mother supported Turei and her sister to learn the Māori language from a young age, and learnt alongside them. Turei studied architecture at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree in 2009 and a Master of Architecture with first-class honours in 2012. In 2015, she registered as an architect with the New Zealand Registered Architects Board. In an interview with Dal ...
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New Zealand Institute Of Architects
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) is a membership-based professional organisation that represents approximately 90 per cent of registered architects in Aotearoa New Zealand and supports and promotes architecture in New Zealand. The organisation was founded in 1905 and is committed to supporting members by providing ongoing professional training and material and services that are essential to their work. The Institute has eight branches throughout the country and is headed by a President who serves a two-year term. The day-to-day functions of the Institute are undertaken by an Auckland-based team led by a chief executive. Background Due to the Architects Act 1963 splitting functions between the Institute and the New Zealand Registered Architects Board (NZRAB), 3] the Institute became an incorporated society in 1992, while the NZRAB retains responsibility for the registration of architects. In 2019, the Institute was gifted the name Te Kāhui W ...
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New Zealand Women Architects
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21st-century New Zealand Architects
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