David Mitchell
Director
B. Arch, Fellow NZIA, Member Auckland City Council Urban Design Panel, ex Adjunct Professor Unitec, ex-Senior Lecturer University of Auckland School of Architecture
David Mitchell (b. 1941) is an architect whose work has figured prominently in New Zealand over the last twenty years. He has designed university buildings, teachers’ college buildings, schools and community projects, art galleries, office buildings, public housing, apartments, and numerous private houses. Though he travelled and worked overseas for most of the 1990’s he continued with private commissions in New Zealand. He returned to Auckland with Julie Stout to set up practice again in 2000.
He has taught design at the Auckland schools of architecture, written two books and many articles and presented a 6-part television series on New Zealand architecture.
In 2005, David was awarded the NZIA Gold Medal, the highest honour bestowed by the New Zealand Institute of Architects Incorporated, for an outstanding contribution to the theory and practice of architecture.