GAD / PERSON PROFILE
Nicholas Stevens
Nicholas Stevens formed Stevens Lawson Architects with Gary Lawson in 2002.
Background & practice
Nicholas Stevens formed Stevens Lawson Architects with Gary Lawson in 2002. Their work developed from houses into multi-residential and public buildings, including a concert hall, school library and community facilities. The NZIA's joint 2022 Gold Medal citation emphasises the close collaboration between the two architects, careful detailing and inventive use of materials. It treats their achievements as intertwined rather than assigning separate authorship to each partner.
How to read the work
Carry the care and material precision of small houses into larger public programmes, using close collaboration and sustained questioning to develop architecture beyond a repeated stylistic formula.
Joint founder and joint Gold Medal recipient; individual project attribution is not supplied.
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