Brit andresen biography channel

Norwegian-born Australian architect

Brit Andresen is a Norwegian-born Australianarchitect and was the first female recipient of the RAIA Gold Medal, awarded in 2002, for her sustained contribution to architecture through teaching, scholarship and practice.

Brit andresen biography channel

Biography

Andresen was born in Norway and moved back and forth to Australia where her father, an engineer, was working on hydroelectric projects between 1951 and 1963.^[1] She studied architecture at Trondheim in Norway, graduating in 1969.

In 1971 she moved to Cambridge, where she began teaching architecture part-time at Cambridge University and established her own practice.^[2]

In 1972 Andresen in collaboration with Gasson Meunier Architects, won the design competition for the Burrell Museum, Glasgow.^[3] Due to a shortfall in funding, the project was not completed until several years later.

The original team, Andresen, Meunier and Gasson had dispersed and the building was com