Kristin Green is the director of the Australian architecture practice Kristin Green Associates architecture (KGA architecture) based in

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, Australia.

Early life and education

Green was born in Melbourne, and studied architecture at

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, graduating in 2004. Her thesis was published in the 2001 RMIT Architecture Design Thesis Major Projects catalogue of student work, ''The Bold and the Beautiful''.

Career

Having worked for a variety of Melbourne architectural practices, such as

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, Peter Mills, Boschler and Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL), in 2009 Green established KGA Architecture. At TCL, Green was part of the project team on the multi-award winning Craigieburn Bypass project. In 2014, her project La Plage du Pacifique was included in the ''Sustainable Empires'' exhibition at the Palace Albrizzi as part of the collateral events for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, ''Fundamentals'', directed by

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. In 2015, she is an invited speaker at Risk, the Australian Institute of Architects National Conference. Green teaches design regularly at RMIT and Melbourne Universities. She is active in Australian architecture culture as a member of the Australian Institute of Architects and sat on the Interior Architecture Awards Jury in 2014. Her project, La Plage du Pacifique, features on the cover of RMIT's Innovation Professor of Architecture Leon Van Schaik’s 2015 book ''Practical Poetics in Architecture''.

Notable works

La Plage du Pacifique, Vanuatu. Spring Street Grocer, Melbourne Australia.

Awards

* 2013: KGA was awarded Best Retail Design at the 2013 Eat-Drink Design Awards for the Spring Street Grocer in Melbourne. * 2015: Joint award winner of the Inaugural Tapestry Design Prize for Architects with Michelle Hamer for their work ''Long Term Parking'', along with

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for ''Perspectives on a Flat Surface''.

References

External links

*http://www.kgaarchitecture.com.au/ *http://architectureau.com/articles/2013-eat-drink-design-awards-best-retail-design/ *http://architectureau.com/articles/spring-street-grocer/ *http://architectureau.com/articles/la-plage-du-pacifique/ *http://www.designboom.com/architecture/kristin-greens-beautiful-fortress-on-the-coast-la-plage-dhotel-du-pacifique-1-20-2014/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20150314033127/http://www.kristingreenarchitecture.com/projects.html *http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/22/la-plage-du-pacifique-hotel-kristin-green-peter-bennetts/ *http://architectureau.com/articles/la-plage-du-pacifique-1/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Kristin Australian women architects Living people RMIT University alumni Architects from Melbourne 21st-century Australian architects 20th-century Australian architects Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian women