McMeeking House, 1994. Neil Simmons Architects (role = Architect) / Split Building, 1986 (Pastel and Graphite).
About
ARCHITECTURE - EDUCATION - ADVOCACY
LSA Ltd combines architectural practice with education, academic research and advocacy.
As an educator, Lynda has worked since 1994 at The University of Auckland, AUT, and Unitec in a part-time capacity, teaching across many disciplines - history, professional practice, drawing papers, tutoring in studio, and as supervisor to March (Prof) thesis candidates. She has been an external monitor for degree courses at Victoria University of Wellington, Unitec, The University of Auckland, and the establishment of AUT’s Bachelor of Spatial Design course (then AIT). Academic areas of interest include drawing-based design processes, history and socio-political effects in architectural design, and Lynda continues to publish articles in these fields.
Portait 1, 2011 (Acrylic paint) / Portait 2, 2010 (Acrylic paint).
NZIA in:situ conference 14 Feb 2019, Q & A with Gloria Cabral
As an architect, Lynda has been the recipient of several awards as well as being convenor and jury member on NZIA and AAA Awards programmes. Lynda Simmons • Architect was established in 1997, after Lynda had gained 10 years experience in NZ and overseas and for Neil Simmons Architects in Auckland, NZ. The practice LSA Ltd handles mainly residential and small community education work.
And as an advocate, Lynda works to affect the profession and culture of architectural practice through writing and publication and in the establishment A+W NZ. She is co-founder and past co-chair of Architecture + Women NZ (2011-2019), Research Leader (2011-2022), Policy Leader (2011-2022) and Archivist (2011-2022). She contributed to the establishment of the A+W NZ Dulux Awards Programme (est 2014) and created many of the A+W NZ signature programmes, including A+W NZ Tātuhi Drawing Architecture: Sarah Treadwell Archive, A+W NZ Timeline, A+W NZ Fathers’ Forum and the Expanded Fields Series. Lynda was the organisor of the A+W NZ / SGA Motu Kaikoura Project (2017/18), and one of the core team organising the inaugural A+W NZ event: The A+W NZ Between Silos Exhibition, held at Wynyard Quarter Silo 6 in 2013.
Lynda is an advocate for part-time workers in the Architectural field, and is proud to have continuously combined ‘Care’ work alongside her paid architectural and teaching work in the raising of her children.
Her radical dream is for the unpaid labour of ‘care’ to be paid, a simple act which will re-distribute society’s value systems and affect embedded patriarchal structures in professions such as architecture.
Webber House, 1989. Neil Simmons Architects (role = architectural graduate)
Making Waves: Activism and the Built Realm Panel Discussion @ Object Space 25 September 2019, event as part of Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa exhibition, curated by Kathy Waghorn 14 Sept-13 Oct 2019
View full CV for Lynda Simmons here
