Rachel Neeson is an Australian architect and lecturer in architecture. Her architecture practice Neeson Murcutt Architects, formed with her late partner

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in 2004, was awarded the

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Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture – Houses in 2011.

Life

Neeson studied architecture at the

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and graduated with the University Medal in 1993. She was awarded the Board of Architects 2002 Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship and completed a master's degree in architecture in

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. Neeson Murcutt Architects won the Australian Institute of Architects' New South Wales Wilkinson Award in 2007 and in 2009, and the Robin Boyd Award in 2011. Some of the practice's most notable projects have been the redesign of The Prince Alfred Pool and the

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Community Centre, both in Sydney. Neeson lectures in architecture at the University of Sydney.

References

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