Andrea Nield

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Andrea Nield
Born 1951 (age 72–73)
Hamburg, Germany
Nationality Australian
Alma mater University of Sydney
Occupation Architect
Awards Australian Institute of Architects’ Marion Mahony Griffin Prize for a Distinctive Body of Architecture Work
2008
Practice Studio Nield, Sydney
Buildings Hilarie Mais Studio
Ultimo Community Centre, Sydney
St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
Projects Women's and Children’s Hospital, Afghanistan
Aceh Housing, Aceh, Indonesia
Ngari School, Solomon Islands

Andrea Nield (born 1951) is an Australian architect who founded and was elected the first president of Emergency Architects Australia. Nield has directed major relief and reconstruction work in Aceh, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Victoria, Australia after natural disasters. She and her husband Lawrence Nield are directors of Studio Nield - an Architecture and Urban Design practice.

Nield has designed hospitals in Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Australia and is a joint author of "Beyond Shelter - Architecture for Crisis" and "Beyond Shelter - Architecture and Human Dignity".

She was the Australian Institute of Architects (NT) Creative Director for AusIndoArch Tropfix Student Design Workshop held in June 2014 and the AusIndoArch Conference in Darwin November 2014, Australia.[1]

Education

Nield was educated at the University of Sydney[2] where she received a B.Sc.Arch. in 1974 and B.Arch. with Honors in 1977.

Work

Nield founded Emergency Architects Australia[3] (EAA)[4] in 2005 which has responded to natural emergencies in Aceh, Indonesia, in Sri Lanka, the Solomon Islands, in Pakistan and in Australia. EAA is associated with the French emergency architecture agency Architectes de l’urgence Foundation.

In the Solomon Islands, Nield raised the funds and organised the team to rebuild Ngari School[5] with the local community - a prototype school to be repeated in other locations by the Solomon Islands Department of Education.

Nield led the EAA team along with BVN Architecture that planned the Temporary Village in Kinglake, Victoria after the Black Saturday Bushfires and initiated the rebuilding of the award-winning Narbethong Community Hall.[6]

Notable Projects

Publications

  • Pyrmont/Ultimo Study[11]
  • Beyond Shelter - Architecture for Crisis (2011)[12]
  • Beyond Shelter - Architecture and Human Dignity (2012)[13]
  • New Kununurra courthouse[14]

Awards

  • 2008 - Australian Institute of Architects’ Marion Mahony Griffin Prize for a Distinctive Body of Architecture Work[15]

References

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  4. "Victims need art like a hole in the head". September 22, 2011 Elizabeth Farrelly, Sydney Morning Herald
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