Megan Rule

Megan Rule is a New Zealand architect.^[1] She was a recipient of a National Association of Women in Construction Excellence Award in 2016.

Megan Rule
Born	New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Occupation	Architect
Awards	Helen Tippett Award (2016)
Practice	South Pacific Architecture
Buildings	Northland Waterfall Chapel

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.^[2] She has been a director for Habitat for Humanity and Architecture for Humanity.^[3]

In 2000, Rule founded South Pacific Architecture in Auckland, focusing on architecture for diversity.^[4] She is the chair of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects' Auckland branch.^[2] 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.^[3] She was inaugural co-chair of the organisation for five years, from 2011 to 2016.^[5][6]

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.^[3]

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.^[7][8] In 2016, Rule won the National Association of Women in Construction Helen Tippett Award for actively promoting women in construction.^[9]