2025 President's Awards
In 2025, the following people received Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects President’s Awards from Huia Reriti:
Andrea Stevens, Folio
Like great architecture, quality writing requires structure and style, function and elegance, proportion and balance. Andrea Stevens demonstrates all these qualities in her work supporting the Institute’s Auckland branch and National Office teams, and I want to thank her for her work on behalf of the architecture profession with this President’s Award.
Andrea has architecture in the family with her great aunt, Alice Greenwood, being the first woman in Aotearoa to gain a Bachelor of Architecture in 1932, who worked for Gummer and Ford and Horace Massey.
Her values are shaped by a deep connection to her Samoan ancestry through her Mum Anna Greenwood and Grandmother Rona Prichard whose family villages were Faleasi’u, Ulutogia and Leone on Tutuila.
Andrea has an innate understanding of the nature of practice and the issues surrounding it, having previously worked as an architect at Jasmax. She is a supportive and helpful presence that enables our Auckland branch to communicate clearly to members and the public with the Kōrero newsletter, and more recently supporting me and the National Office team with Te Mātārere The Bulletin.
She founded her Folio agency in 2007 and has more than two decades of experience across the construction, manufacturing and architecture sectors to draw on in her work. She is also an accomplished author, having written five books and was a Finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for ‘Beyond the State: New Zealand State Houses from Modest to Modern’.