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Interview
February 25, 2022
Golden glow cast on career in architecture Julie Stout joins an elite group as recipient of a top architects’ award. The Narrow Neck resident talks to Helen Vause about a lifetime practising and teaching – and helping shape the city.
Architect and advocate... Julie Stout at home in Narrow Neck Looking out over Narrow Neck beach to Rangitoto from her airy, covered upstairs deck, Julie Stout grins. Yes, she says, she is very honoured indeed to be the newest recipient of the highest individual award for an architect at this stage of her career, the Gold Medal given annually by the New Zealand Institute of Architects. Colleagues, fulsome in their praise of her contribution to the profession, consider it
timely recognition for Stout, who already has a long list of awards to her name for notable projects and a great reputation for advocacy. The Flagstaff meets her during a week of celebrations. The architectural practice she is part of has long been Devonport-based, although she might be best known in the area for the striking design of her award-winning house in Old Lake Road.
But Stout’s story and projects have taken her far and wide, and involved many other houses. As she tells it, the woman from Palmerston North had a lucky day back in the middle of her studies at the University of Auckland, when she met the late David Mitchell, an architect and lecturer who would become her partner in life and in professional practice.
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