Megan Rule
{{Short description|New Zealand architect}}
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Megan Rule is a New Zealand architect.{{Cite web |title=AWNZ |url=https://www.architecturewomen.org.nz/network/member/19123 |access-date=20 May 2023 |website=AWNZ |language=en-NZ}} 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, 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.{{Cite web |title=A+W NZ Interview with Chair of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Auckland Branch, Megan Rule – AWNZ [staging] |url=https://www.architecturewomen.org.nz/research/articles/a-w-nz-interview-with-chair-of-te-k%C4%81hui-whaihanga-new-zealand-institute-of-architects-auckland-branch-megan-rule |access-date=20 May 2023 |website=AWNZ |language=en-NZ}} She has been a director for Habitat for Humanity and Architecture for Humanity.{{Cite web |date=26 October 2018 |title=A house for life |url=https://www.designguide.co.nz/a-house-for-life/ |access-date=20 May 2023 |website=The Design Guide |language=en-US}}
In 2000, Rule founded South Pacific Architecture in Auckland, focusing on architecture for diversity.{{Cite web |title=South Pacific Architecture |url=http://www.southpacificarchitecture.co.nz/ |access-date=20 May 2023 |website=www.southpacificarchitecture.co.nz}} 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.{{Cite book |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117865220 |title=Snapshot 500 Architecture + Women New Zealand |date=2013-01-01 |publisher=Balasoglou Books, Architecture + Women NZ |isbn=978-0-9876595-5-2 |editor-last=Gatley |editor-first=Julia |language=English |editor-last2=Lee |editor-first2=Sara}}{{Cite web |title=Megan Rule to step down as co-chair |url=https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/megan-rule-to-step-down-as-co-chair/ |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=Architecture Now |language=en-AU}}
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.{{Cite web |date=20 May 2023 |title=Favourite things: Global Designs |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/favourite-things-global-designs/7O3GAUXVTVQUFY5ONUP5MKNRUE/ |access-date=20 May 2023 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite book |last=Cox |first=Elizabeth |author-link=Elizabeth Cox (historian) |title=Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture |publisher=Massey University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781991016348 |location=Auckland, New Zealand |pages=298}} In 2016, Rule won the National Association of Women in Construction Helen Tippett Award for actively promoting women in construction.{{Cite web |last=Stevens |first=Ben |date=15 May 2017 |title=National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Awards » Connexis {{!}} Infrastructure Training |url=https://www.connexis.org.nz/news/press-release-enter-now-national-association-women-construction-nawic-awards/ |access-date=20 May 2023 |website=Connexis {{!}} Infrastructure Training |language=en-NZ}}
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Category:New Zealand women architects
Category:21st-century New Zealand architects
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