A+W NZ Dulux Awards

Wirihana Leadership Award

The Wirihana Leadership Award aims to maintain focus on female leaders in their second decade + beyond graduation. The second decade beyond graduation is significant for all architectural careers, and statistics show that it is during this time that gender has a significant impact. This category is neither a graduate award not a mid-career award, but is instead aimed at the career stage between those two, that is so often when women lose their visibility. It seems that just as mentoring relationships are defined and future leaders noted, females become less visible, and this award aims to reverse this by maintaining the presence of emerging leaders in the profession’s eye.

JUDGING CRITERIA WILL BE BASED ON;

• Evidence of outstanding architectural design talent
• Evidence of team leadership skills
• Evidence of working well in collaboration: partnerships, teams of all sizes and diversities (e.g. a cross-section of people from a variety of areas, which may include trades, institutions, academic, business, social groupings, ages, cultures etc.)
• Ability to establish a positive work/life balance
• Mentor relationships are identified

ENTRY CRITERIA:

• The Wirihana Emerging Leadership Award is open to all members on the A+W•NZ database who are in the second decade after the date of their graduation.
• Entry for the Wirihana Emerging Leadership Award is by nomination. The nominator does not need to be a member of the A+W•NZ database.
• Entrants may nominate themselves or be nominated by another person or group /practice.
• Nominations can be for an individual or a Practice/Collective.
• Exclusions: the A+W•NZ Core Team are not eligible for nomination (refer A+W•NZ website 'Awards Process' page for non­eligible members).

The FIVE FINALISTS for the Wirihana Leadership Award 2023;
(in alphabetical order)

Charlotte Hoare (Architectus)
Haley Hooper (Ngāpuhi) (WSP)
Sally Ogle (Patchwork Architecture)
Kelly O’Sullivan (SGA)
Raukura Turei (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kitāhi) (Monk Mackenzie)

The FIVE FINALISTS for the Wirihana Leadership Award 2020;
(in alphabetical order)

Natalie Allen (The Urban Advisory)
Felicity Brenchley (Felicity Brenchley Architects + ĀKAU)
Ilona Haghshenas (Warren and Mahoney)
Fiona Short (Warren and Mahoney)
Louise Wright (Assembly Architects)

The FIVE FINALISTS for the Wirihana Leadership Award 2017;
(in alphabetical order)
Bureaux Ltd (Jessica Barter and Maggie Carroll)
Mary Henry (Jasmax)
Natasha Markham (MAUD)
Rogan Nash (Kate Rogan and Eva Nash)
Sophie Wylie (Artifact)

The FIVE FINALISTS for the Wirihana Leadership Award 2014;
(in alphabetical order)

Andrea Bell
Bonnifait
Maggie Carroll
Marianne Riley
Sarah Gilbertson