Megan Rule is a New Zealand architect. She was a recipient of a
National Association of Women in Construction Excellence Award in 2016.
Biography
Rule studied architecture at the
University of Auckland
The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...
, 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.
She has been a director for
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or Habitat, is a U.S. non-governmental, and tax-exempt 501(C)(3) Christian nonprofit organization which seeks to build affordable housing. The international ...
and
Architecture for Humanity.
In 2000, Rule founded South Pacific Architecture in Auckland, focusing on architecture for diversity. She is the chair of
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects' Auckland branch.
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.
She was inaugural co-chair of the organisation for five years, from 2011 to 2016.
Rule's 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''.
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. In 2016, Rule won the
National Association of Women in Construction Helen Tippett Award for actively promoting women in construction.
References
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New Zealand women architects
21st-century New Zealand architects
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Auckland alumni
Living people