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Barbara van Zyl

Project Director - Registered Architect
Architecture
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Barbara van Zyl

Qualifications & Affiliations

BArch - University of Natal, RSA

NZRAB Registered Architect

Member, New Zealand Institute of Architects

Barbara joined Jasmax in 2015 and brings a wealth of architectural experience and talent to the practice. She is a highly experienced registered architect, having worked on projects of varying scales and types, both in New Zealand and South Africa. Barbara has a hands-on approach and enjoys performing the full spectrum of roles from project inception through the design stages to implementation and delivery on site.

Barbara studied architecture during the 1970s in South Africa. She graduated as the only girl in a class of 46. During those formative years her passion for architecture was fueled by her desire to address social issues through the built environment. Throughout her career Barbara has sought out projects that have a social purpose - where her input on the project outcomes makes a positive impact on the community it serves.

While running her own practice in South Africa for nine years, Barbara was one of the lead architects for a new multi-purpose centre for the rapidly growing Cato Manor new town, a flagship project funded by the Nelson Mandela Foundation for Reconstruction and Development. Barbara also consulted the Durban City Council on the Warwick Junction Urban Renewal Program. This ground breaking enterprise sought to deliver innovative “African” solutions to the historical problem of exclusion and disenfranchisement of black informal traders from the Durban CBD and periphery.

Barbara has enjoyed design roles as well as leading project teams through the documentation and construction phases of several large projects, including the role of Project Architect for Ngā Wai Hono. She led the diverse 24-strong team with ages ranging from 22 to 90 through the Developed Design and Detailed Design stages to completion.

Barbara leads by example and mentoring often happens “on the job”. She has regularly been sought out by young female graduates to serve as a mentor. They have often commented that they feel empowered seeing her on site – often a lone woman – and holding her own in coordination meetings full of men.

Barbara's design integrity, attention to detail, and her ability to successfully collaborate with contractors, consultants and builders to achieve the clients’ goals makes her a ‘complete architect’.

Key Projects

AUT Ngā Wai Hono

AUT A1 Building

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Aotearoa New Zealand

+64 (0) 9 366 9626
studio@jasmax.com

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Address:
2 Marston Street
Parnell
Auckland 1052

Mail:
PO Box 6648
Victoria Street West
Auckland 1142

Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

Aotearoa New Zealand

+64 (0) 4 499 3011
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People at this location

Address:
Level 1
Grant Thornton House
215 Lambton Quay
Wellington 6011

Mail:
PO Box 25523
Wellington 6146

Ōtautahi Christchurch

Aotearoa New Zealand

+64 (0) 3 341 1853
studio@jasmax.com

People at this location

Address:
Level 1
79 Lichfield Street
Christchurch Central
Christchurch 8011

Mail:
PO Box 104
Christchurch 8440

Sydney

Australia

+61 (0) 43 742 7153
studio@jasmax.com

People at this location

Address:
The Commons
20/40 Meagher Street
Chippendale
Sydney 2008

Mail:
PO Box 2376
Strawberry Hills NSW
Sydney 2012

Whangārei

Aotearoa New Zealand

+64 (0) 21 503 923

Address:
Level 1
35 Walton Street
Whangārei 0110

Mail:
PO Box 6648
Victoria Street West
Auckland 1142

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