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 , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

, 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

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and

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. 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 co-chair of the organisation for 5 years, from 2014 to 2019. Her work features in the book ''Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design'' by Bill McKay and

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, 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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