Andrea Nield (born 1951) is an Australian architect who founded and was elected the first president of

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. Nield has directed major relief and reconstruction work in Aceh, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Victoria, Australia after natural disasters. She and her husband

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are directors of Studio Nield – an Architecture and Urban Design practice. Nield has designed hospitals in Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Australia and is a joint author of "Beyond Shelter – Architecture for Crisis" and "Beyond Shelter – Architecture and Human Dignity". She was the

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(NT) Creative Director for AusIndoArch Tropfix Student Design Workshop held in June 2014 and the AusIndoArch Conference in Darwin November 2014, Australia.

Education

Nield was educated at the University of Sydney where she received a BSc.Arch. in 1974 and BArch with Honors in 1977.

Work

Nield founded

(EAA) in 2005 which has responded to natural emergencies in Aceh, Indonesia, in

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, the Solomon Islands, in Pakistan and in Australia. EAA is associated with the French emergency architecture agency Architectes de l'urgence Foundation. In the Solomon Islands, Nield raised the funds and organised the team to rebuild Ngari School with the local community – a prototype school to be repeated in other locations by the Solomon Islands Department of Education. Nield led the EAA team along with

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that planned the Temporary Village in

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after the Black Saturday bushfires and initiated the rebuilding of the award-winning Narbethong Community Hall.

Notable Projects

* Mais Studio/Gallery, Sydney Australia – 1998 * Balmain House, Sydney, Australia – 1992 * Women's and Children’s Hospital, Afghanistan – 2003 * Aceh Housing, Aceh, Indonesia – 2005 * Ngari School, Solomon Islands – 2006 * Ultimo Community Centre, Sydney, Australia – 1990 * St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Sydney, Australia – 1998 * Kai Tak Children's Hospital, Hong Kong – 2011 * Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong – 2013 * Kai Tak General Hospital, Hong Kong – 2014

Publications

* Pyrmont/Ultimo Study * Beyond Shelter – Architecture for Crisis (2011) * Beyond Shelter – Architecture and Human Dignity (2012) * New Kununurra courthouse

Awards

* 2008 – Australian Institute of Architects' Marion Mahony Griffin Prize for a Distinctive Body of Architecture Work

References

External links

Emergency Architects Australia (EAA)StudioNield
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