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Jane Elizabeth Aimer is a New Zealand architect. In New Zealand, Aimer's architectural practice was one of the first to be women-led. She was the first
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Biography

Aimer attended the
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's School of Architecture and Planning and then transferred to
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in Wellington for two years. After graduating, she returned to Auckland and worked at architecture firm CPRW for around twelve years. She left to start her own practice. Aimer shared an office with fellow architect
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and in 2000 the pair joined their businesses and established Aimer Naismith Architects. Mike Dowsett joined the company shortly afterwards and it was renamed Scarlet Architects. Aimer was one of the first architects in New Zealand to have a women-led practice. In 2009, Aimer and Naismith designed and built mirror-image townhouses, with shared common areas, in Newmarket for themselves and their extended families to live in. Aimer was the last chair of the Architects Education Registration Board prior to its disestablishment in the mid-2000s. She was also the first chair of the New Zealand Registered Architects Board. In 2020, Aimer convened the judging jury for the Auckland Architecture Awards.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aimer, Jane Living people Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand women architects 21st-century New Zealand architects 20th-century New Zealand architects