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Articles by Lynda Simmons
Making Space Chapter 30: Collective Action: Women Architects and Activism Since the 1990s
From (ed) Elizabeth Cox, Making Space, MUP 2022, pp. 264-271. By Lynda Simmons
Making Space Chapter 18: 'Vigour and Zest': Lillian Chrystall
From (ed) Elizabeth Cox, Making Space, MUP 2022, pp. 154-161. By Lynda Simmons
Obituary: Lillian Chrystall, Obe (Lillian Jessie Laidlaw) 1/3/1926 – 24/2/2022. Architecture NZ, May/June 2022.
Pp. 28. By Lynda Simmons.
Article published Into The Underworld Exhibition - Māhi Raro-Whenua by Chirag Jindal
September 2018, Silo Gallery, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland.
Image: Chirag Jindal
Additional image in PDF: Anna Atkins (1799-1871) Algae Cyanotype Published in Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. (1843)
The ‘Green House’, a 1970’s gem by Claude Megson, and recently re-invigorated by Rafik Patel, is reviewed for ArchitectureNZ February/March 2018.
Image: Andrew Lowe
NZIA Local Awards 2017 (Auckland and Northland Region) Convenor's Comments.
Koha / An Offering of New Zealand Architecture and Design
NZIA Publication by John Walsh 2016
Free Broadsheet available at 'Future Islands', NZIA Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
'Designing Women Seek Rightful Place' by Lucy Treep and Lynda Simmons
pp18-19, Koha, Issue One, NZIA
In response to an email received from Matt Ritani in 2014, regarding access (or restrictions) to the Architecture+Women•NZ membership (database), A+W•NZ Co-Chair Lynda Simmons wrote a Letter to the Editor of the architecturenz magazine. The email questioned the inclusion or otherwise of trans*women in the A+W•NZ community, and prompted the public reply as a way to remind all in the architectural community that A+W•NZ was set up with 'visible' and 'inclusive' as the two core aims - ie. to remove barriers which keep so many unseen.
Gentle Foundations: Extrapolations of The Whare in the Bush.
EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION.
Published September 2014 by St Paul St Publishing and Architecture+Women•NZ.
Designed by Amy Yalland, printed by Index Press.
Publication by Rebecca Green and Elisapeta Heta.
Exhibition curated by Tosh Ahkit.
'The Whare in the Bush' project (2012-14) by Ruby Watson, Raukura Turei, Rebecca Green and Elisapeta Heta.
Architecture by Women 2003-2013 (2014)
Article published by BLOCK by Megan Rule and Lynda Simmons
Interstices 12 Unsettled Containers, ed. Engels - Schwarzpaul, T and Douglas, A, 2012, pp. 126 - 130
From Man Alone to Larrikin: The Work of Neil Simmons 1958 - 1984
Lynda Simmons, Master of Architecture Thesis, 2011
The University of Auckland, School of Architecture and Planning
Section A:
Abstract and introduction: Introduction - L.Simmons 2011 Man Alone to Larrikin
Chapter 1: History - L.Simmons 2011 Man Alone to Larrikin
Chapter 2: Man Alone - L.Simmons 2011 Man Alone to Larrikin
Chapter 3: Larrikin - L.Simmons 2011 Man Alone to Larrikin
Chapter 4: Personal - L.Simmons 2011 Man Alone to Larrikin
Conclusion: Conclusion - L.Simmons 2011 Man Alone to Larrikin
Section B:
NSA Database, Appendices A-G & Bibliography - L.Simmons 2011 Man Alone to Larrikin
Lynda’s lecture ‘From Larrikin to Po|Mo’ was held at Objectspace as a part of the Ockham Lecture series, on 10 May 2023.
Link to Objectspace event article.
Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA interviewed Lynda and others (Christina van Bohemen, Renée Williamson, Melanie Tristram and Teena Hale Pennington) for their reflection and news piece published on International Women’s Day 2023.
Elizabeth Cox, author and editor of Making Space, has since confirmed that in fact there are over 500 names in her book, 300 is a conservative figure.
On 2 December 2022, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland published an online article, following an interview between media advisor Hussein Moses and Professional Teaching Fellow Lynda Simmons. The discussion centered on the upcoming A+W NZ Fathers' Forum event, a discussion forum on the need for flexible working structures, which Simmons has developed for A+W NZ.
On 21 October 2022, Elizabeth Cox and Lynda Simmons were interviewed on the Nine to Noon RNZ show, by Lynn Freeman. They discussed the importance of Elizabeth's recently published book Making Space, in relation to a broader history of women working in architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
AKAU Interviewed with Dr Fleur Palmer by Lynda Simmons.
Making Ways, first published by Objectspace 2020.
Text and images copyright Authors and photographers as attributed
Design copyright Amy Yalland
Episode 034 - Lynda Simmons, 12 April 2021.
76 Small Rooms podcast about architecture. Jeremy Hansen, Natasha Markham, Mat Brown, and Richard Archbold (Arch). In Episode 034 they talk to Lynda.
Lynda is interviewed by Home Style Magazine for the launch of a series of A+W NZ interviews. Pp. 114-115 (August 2020)
Link to online Home Style article.
A+W NZ Co-Chair Lynda Simmons contributed to a recent architecturenz article on Flexible Working, and how architectural practices are changing to suit the current workforce. (May/June 2018)
A+W NZ Co-Chair was interviewed by Diversity Agenda before the launch of their website and #20for21 project in May 2018.
ArchitectureNow (12 April 2016) interviewed and written by Amelia Melbourne Hayward.
Women in Architecture #1 features Vanessa Carswell (Principal at Warren and Mahoney, Christchurch) and Lynda Simmons (co-founder of A+W•NZ, architect, educator).
(Women in Architecture #2 (19 April 2016) features Wellington architect Judi Kerr-Brown and Elisapeta Heta, from the core team of A+W•NZ and architectural graduate at Jasmax.)
[Refer to architecturewomen.org.nz for more information.]
