Brit Andresen is a Norwegian architect who teaches and practises in Australia, where she is professor emeritus at the University of Queensland. In 2002 Andresen was awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Her current research and practice include the changing relations between architecture, settlement and the land.
Brit Andresen's Latest contributions
Looking back at the Droga Architect in Residence Program
Brit Andresen and Anthony Burke introduce a series of interviews with the international architects who took part in the Droga Architect in Residence Program, which ran from 2014 to 2018.
Moreton Bay Houses
Architect Brit Andresen reflects on her practice’s design for four dwellings within a shared territory in Moreton Bay, Queensland, completed in 2001.
Forthcoming Boyd Education Centre competition lacks “respect”
Brit Andresen, Rick Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury and Lindsay Johnston ask whether the Bundanon Trust’s masterplan to expand Riversdale compromises the wishes of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, the landscape of Riversdale and the vision of architects Glenn Murcutt, Wendy Lewin and Reg Lark.
Brit Andresen on Peter Stutchbury
Brit Andresen reflects on the work of 2015 Gold Medallist, Peter Stutchbury.
2015 Droga Architect in Residence Program
Applications open for next 2015 residencies, and Brit Andresen reflects on the inaugrual year of the program.
Left Over Space House
Architects Casey and Rebekah Vallance have devotedly turned a parcel of discarded land into a poetic response to suburban infill.
Translational Research Institute
The collaborative research laboratory by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill.
A. S. Hook Address
Brit Andresen, the RAIA’s 2002 Gold Medallist, outlines the ideas that drove her practice, teaching and research partnership with Peter O’Gorman.