A+W NZ Awards Jury

A+W NZ is please to announce the jury panel for the 2023 A+W Dulux Awards.

Justine Clark (International Juror)

Justine Clark is a co-founder and director of Parlour: gender, equity, architecture. She leads the organisation’s event, advocacy and funding programs, and established the Parlour website, which she now edits with Susie Ashworth. Justine consults to built-environment organisations, institutions and practices on policy, strategy publications, events and public engagement. Justine was awarded co-recipient of the 2014 A+W NZ Dulux Munro Diversity Award with Gill Matthewson for Parlour and has supported and promoted equality and diversity in architecture throughout her career.

Justine is also an architectural editor, writer, researcher, advisor and advocate. She is active in public discussions of architecture; she has convened many events, curated exhibitions and sat on national and international juries. From 2000–2011 Justine worked on Architecture Australia, and was editor of the journal for seven years. Her work has won awards for architecture in the media and her broader contribution to the profession has been recognized with the 2015 Marion Mahony Prize and the 2019 President’s Award. Justine is an honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Her writing appears in both the scholarly and professional press, and she has worked on topics including gender equity and architecture, architectural criticism, architectural drawing and postwar modernism.

Born and educated in Aotearoa New Zealand, Justine now lives in Melbourne. She is co-author, with Dr Paul Walker, of the book Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern (2000)

Craig Moller

Craig Moller is a Director at Moller Architects. With over 25 years experience in practice, his work varies in scale from the very small to the very large, and embraces both the private and public.

Craig has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Auckland and a Master of Architecture from Yale University and teaches studio part time at the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning.

He has contributed to the profession of architecture in a number of ways with involvement on various design juries including the NZIA awards program, review panels for schools of architecture, and delivering the graduate development program on behalf of the institute. He is an assessor for the New Zealand Registered Architects Board and has been involved in the local community through his participation as a trustee on local school boards.

Craig has been a long time supporter of A+W and Moller Architects is the sole sponsor of A+W Father’s Forum events. Craig is also a longstanding mentor at the A+W Speed Mentoring events.

Craig considers education to be of fundamental importance. He draws in his spare time and rides a bike.

Dr. Sarah Treadwell

Dr. Sarah Treadwell has worked as an architect and academic and currently practices as a painter and writer. She trained at Auckland University School of Architecture, gaining her registration as an Architect in 1978. She has practiced in New Zealand and overseas. In 1981, Sarah joined the Auckland University School of Architecture as the first woman on permanent staff.

Sarah’s research considers operations of grounding and foundation in contemporary and historic images of Aotearoa Oceania. She has published in various books and journals including Architectural Theory Review, Architectural Design, Space and Culture and Interstices. She has publications on gender, motels, interiority and on the work of contemporary artists including Barbara Tuck, Pauline Rhodes, Maureen Lander and Joanna Margaret Paul.

She received the 2013 NZIA President’s Award for services to architecture. She is a founding member of Architecture + Women and led the 2013 A+W symposium “Architecture in an Expanded Field”. Sarah was also the recipient of the Chrystall Excellence Award at the 2017 A+W•NZ Dulux awards.

Sarah’s visual work has been exhibited at Te Tuhi, Pakuranga, the Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland and the Adam Art Gallery, Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, New Zealand.

Carinnya Feaunati

Carinnya Feaunati is a New Zealand-born Samoan from the villages of Fasito’o-uta, Moata’a and Solosolo. She holds a tulafale-ali'i chief title of Ti'afelelea'i from her father's village, Fasito'o-uta. Growing up as a Samoan family in an undiversified region of New Zealand has impacted Carinnya’s advocacy for diversity and equality in design within her career.

Alongside her professional role as a senior associate within DesignGroup Stapleton Elliott, Carinnya is the Wellington Director on the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Board.

Carinnya’s experience covers sectors of Government, Community, Transport, and more recently Housing. This work has drawn on her strengths in the cultural design space and co-design with Tangata Whenua and Tangata Moana (Pacific) communities. Working with indigenous communities as clients and project partners has developed her strong advocacy for indigenous rights through care and respect in every stage of the design and construction process.

Continuing from her graduate dissertation, Carinnya is interested in exploring what architecture can do beyond the tangible build. This has created opportunities for her to be involved in Young Pacific Leaders Forums in Hawaii and Fiji as well as presenting research at COP21 in Paris

Jury Convenor 2023

Selena Sager (A+W NZ Core team member)

Meet the 2020 A+W NZ Dulux Awards Jury!

Lori Brown (International Juror)

Professor Lori Brown is both an academic and practicing architect. She is also the cofounder of ArchiteXX, a non-profit organization based in New York City that advocates for gender equity in architecture.

Brown is a registered architect and a member of the AIA and the American Association of University Women. She has previously worked in award winning practices in the New York area, and since 2001 has taught at the Syracuse University School of Architecture in New York, where she is currently a Professor. She is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Ecole d’Architecture in Paris, and Princeton University.

In 2012 she co-founded ArchiteXX, with Nina Freedman. ArchiteXX is a non profit organisation that raises awareness of women and non-binary and non-conforming individuals in architecture, achieving this through creating supportive and mentoring networks. ArchiteXX projects such as the WikiD Workshops and 'Now What?!’ touring exhibition — on Advocacy and Activism in American Architecture since 1968 — have had a positive effect at a global level.

The primary focus of Lori’s research is on the intersection between social justice and architecture. Her most recent publication, titled Contested Space: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals, investigated how legislation can affect politicised spaces and the design of them.

Lori’s ongoing projects include editing The Global Encyclopedia of Women In Architecture, a compendium examining women’s contributions to our built environment, and her forthcoming publication Birthing Centers, Borders and Bodies.

Julia Gatley

Dr Julia Gatley is a prolific academic and architectural historian. She was previously the Head of School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland (2016-18), and currently holds an Associate Professor role there. She is a graduate of the Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Melbourne.

Julia is a widely published academic and author, with her research focus on New Zealand modern and post-modern architecture, and the history and heritage conservation of 20th century buildings.

She has written, edited and co-edited multiple books on New Zealand architecture, including Vertical Living: the Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington (2014), Athfield Architects (2012), Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture (2010), and Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904-1984 (2008).

Her most recent publication is as co-editor and contributor to The Auckland School: 100 years of Architecture and Planning (2017), a commemoration of the School’s
centenary. In 2009, Julia was awarded the NZIA President’s Award for Services to Architecture.

Julia has been a strong supporter of Architecture+Women NZ for many years, both as an individual member and via the university. She co-edited the first A+W NZ
publication Snapshot 500 (2013), has contributed to the A+W NZ Timeline, and documented the role of the organisation in several of her lectures and Journal publications.

Raukura Turei

Raukura Turei (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kōtahi) is an architect, artist, actor and mother. She completed her Master of Architecture (Professional) at the
University of Auckland in 2011, and was a Finalist in the 2011 NZIA Student Design Awards with her thesis project of that year.

Raukura became a Registered Architect in 2015, after spending four years with Stevens Lawson Architects, and before leaving to travel overseas. As well as completing acting study in New York City, she gained work experience in Vancouver, Canada.

Back in New Zealand, Raukura established Studio RT, and later joined Monk Mackenzie in 2018, where she currently leads large scale commercial projects. She is a member of the NZIA, A+W NZ, Māori design professional network Ngā Aho, and has been a Jury member on the NZIA Local Awards 2017. Raukura is a frequent
guest tutor at The University of Auckland, and as a fluent speaker of te reo Māori, she is one of only a few who are able to examine at Masters level for theses written
in Māori.

She is also a practicing artist and has exhibited widely, including at the Tokyo Art Fair 2019 and the Adam Art Gallery Wellington 2018. In addition to both architecture and art, Raukura has appeared in film and television, most notably The Dead Lands and the TV series Find Me a Māori Bride.

Turei and partner Mokonuiarangi Smith’s (Rangiwewehi, Te Roro-o-te-Rangi, Rongowhakāta) first child was born in 2019.

Andrew Tu'inukuafe

Andrew Tu’inukuafe is a registered architect, a registered Greenstar Practitioner, a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, and a Designers Institute Fellow.

Currently a Principal at Warren and Mahoney, Andrew has been the project lead for multiple award winning projects including the PwC Wellington interior, Harrison
Grierson workplace interior, and the Vodafone office at Smales Farm. He is the Studio Principal of the Auckland studio and the Head of the interiors team across the
practice. Prior to WaM, Andrew was the Design Director at Creative Spaces for ten years.

Andrew is a graduate from both the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning. Adjacent to travel and postgraduate study, he gained work experience in London and Virginia, USA, working in historic preservation. Andrew is the father of (young adult) triplet sons, with High Court Judge Rebecca Edwards.

As an esteemed industry member and designer, Andrew has been the convenor and judge of many other national design awards, and has shown continued support
for A+W NZ via events such as the Diversity and Inclusion Panel, held at WaM in 2018, and as a panel member in the A+W NZ Fathers’ Forum in 2019.

We are very pleased to announce our Jury for the upcoming A+W-NZ Awards 2017.

Brit Andresen (International Juror)

Brit Andresen studied architecture in Norway (NTH), is a Registered Architect in Queensland, AIA member, and has taught architecture at the University of Cambridge, the Architectural Association London, School of Architecture and Urban Planning UCLA and the University of Queensland. She contributes to the annual Glenn Murcutt International Master Class and has initiated student travel studios to Japan and Finland.

Her private practice in Cambridge and partnership with Peter O’Gorman in Brisbane have resulted in design research and built works that have been published and
exhibited internationally. Her current teaching and research include building design with landscape, the relation of architecture to urban change and relationships between ideas and practice. Brit Andresen continues to practice, teach and research as an independent scholar.

Sharon Jansen

Sharon graduated from Auckland University in 1984 and became a Registered Architect in 1994. Following graduation, she spent nine years overseas in Australia,
Singapore and France working on luxury resort projects. On returning to New Zealand, she worked with several local practices and was exhibition designer for the Museum of New Zealand before establishing Jansen Luke Architects. After the birth of her two children, Sharon joined the practice of Tennent + Brown Architects as senior architect in 2004. Sharon’s role within the practice principally encompassed residential work, leading projects from concept design through to completion. During this time the practice won several NZIA Architecture awards for its residential work, including a NZIA NZ Architecture Award for the Leigh House in Northland for which Sharon was design and project Architect.

In 2013 Sharon was made a Fellow member of the NZ Institute of Architects, and has tutored in Architecture and Interior programmes at Victoria University
and Massey University in Wellington. She has maintained a connection and service to the profession, serving on NZIA Architectural Juries at Local and National level and is now on the NZIA Wellington Branch Committee. She is also a standing panel member for accreditation of the Architecture Schools for the NZ Registered Architects Board.

In 2014 she established SJ-A, a practice concentrating on residential and small commercial projects. The practice focus is to seek elegant architectural solutions
that provide best fit with site, spatial quality, composition and serenity, which will best suit client budget and requirements.

Anna Tong

Anna co-founded CAAHT Studio Architects in 2009 with her husband Chris Holmes, after working for several prominent New Zealand architecture practices, including
Felicity Wallace architects, Jasmax and Cheshire Architects. She is also mother to two young boys which has meant juggling her working and home lives.

Anna has maintained an ongoing academic role in conjunction with her architectural practice, having for many years tutored numerous design studios at both
the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Unitec SCALA. Studio projects have included several installation-based designs for public exhibitions and vents.

Anna has also run lecture courses in Media, and is a regular critic at both schools of architecture. Anna believes that architecture is a privileged profession that is charged with bettering the environment we live within, and that we have a responsibility to carry that out to our best ability.

Dave Strachan

As design director of SGA, Dave has over 40 years experience in the fields of building, interiors, teaching and architecture. Dave has a Master of Architecture Degree in Sustainable Design and is a 2002 graduate of the Newcastle University Glenn Murcutt Master class. During 10 years as Adjunct Professor at Unitec School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Dave ran the Studio 19 Design/Document/Build programme. His practice has won multiple awards across residential,
interiors, commercial and multi-unit housing categories. Enthusiasm, energy and experience are brought to the practice through Dave’s commitment to creating innovative contemporary architecture, appropriate to New Zealand and its unique landscape.

Thank you very much to our hugely talented jury members for the A+W•NZ Awards 2014.

Peggy Deamer

Peggy Deamer is Assistant Dean and Professor of Architecture at Yale University. She is a principal in the firm of Deamer, Architects. She received a B.Arch. from The Cooper Union and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is the editor of The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Press), Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present (Routledge), The Millennium House (Monacelli Press), and co-editor of Building in the Future: Recasting Architectural Labor (MIT Press) and BIM in Academia (Yale School of Architecture) with Phil Bernstein. Recent articles include “Work” in Perspecta 47, “The Changing Nature of Architectural Work,” in Design Practices Now Vol II, The Harvard Design Magazine no. 33; “Detail Deliberation,” in Building
(in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture; “Practicing Practice,” in Perspecta 44; and “Design and Contemporary Practice” in Architecture from the Outside, Dana Cuff, John Wriedt, eds. Work of this firm and of Deamer + Phillips has been published in Bauwelt, Casa Vogue, Progressive Architecture, and The New York Times, amongst others.

Her research examines the nature of architectural work/ labour. She is the organizing member of the advocacy group, The Architecture Lobby.

Liz Seuseu

Liz Seuseu has recently returned from several years in London, where she worked as Senior Designer and Project leader at Johnson Naylor, working on high end
residential developments, including Southbank Place, Fitzroy Place and South Bank Tower for clients Canary Wharf Group. She is now working at Architectus, where previously she worked on projects such as Auckland’s Queen Street upgrade and Sale Street development. Liz has been a Design lecturer and theory tutor at Unitec
School of Design and a co-curator of the Models For Living: 1905-2005 exhibition held at the Auckland Museum in 2005. Liz continues to maintain her connection to the visual arts through her photography and painting practice.

Bill McKay

Bill McKay is an Associate Head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. He writes extensively on New Zealand architecture in books,
journals and magazines such as Architecture New Zealand, Home and Urbis. His commentary and criticism over the last decade has been recognised by the NZ
Institute of Architects with a Presidents Award and Urbis magazine named him Best Architectural Writer. His recently published book Beyond the State: NZ State Houses from Modest to Modern was a 2014 NZ Post Book Awards finalist and he has a book on NZ churches due out in 2015. His research focuses particularly on the area of New Zealand architecture and he is working towards a design history of Auckland, Awkward City and a history of NZ buildings and infrastructure, Making New Zealand.

Jo Aitken

Jo Aitken is Director of Atelier Aiken, which was established in 2007. She has spent some years working in Paris, where she worked as a collaborator with French
Architect, Jean Nouvel, and Austrian Architect, Dietmar Feichtinger. Jo gained her NZRAB registration and Greenstar Accreditation (NZGBC) in 2007 and since
returning to New Zealand has been working on a number of projects both independently and collaboratively with other New Zealand practices, including Patterson
Associates. Jo has been involved with numerous projects that have won various Architectural Awards, including the NZIA Architecture Award (with Patterson Associates and InsideOut Productions), the NZ Interior Awards Supreme Award (with Patterson Associates and InsideOut Productions) for the Frankfurt
Book Fair pavilion, the Asia Pacific Public Service Award (with Opus) and the Best Design Award (with Jasmax).