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Articles by Lynda Simmons
Simmons, Lynda. "Architecture, Women, and Activism in New Zealand." In Women in Architecture, by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns . London: Bloomsbury, 2025. Accessed August 3, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350059757.564.
Simmons, Lynda. "Lillian Chrystall (Lillian Jessie Laidlaw) (1926–2022)." In Women in Architecture, by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns . London: Bloomsbury, 2025. Accessed August 3, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350059757.593.
Simmons, Lynda. "Raukura Turei (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kītahi) (1987–)." In Women in Architecture, by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns . London: Bloomsbury, 2025. Accessed August 3, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350059757.583.
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
