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Claire Chambers (nee Taylor) (1955 - ) was a New Zealand architect, founder of Claire Chambers Architect, first woman registered architect in 1980s, former examiner of Architects Education and Registration Board (AERB) and NZIA fellow.

Early life and education
In 1955, Claire Taylor was born in Motueka in South Island of New Zealand. She graduated from Auckland School of Architecture in 1977. In the same year, she moved to UK and married to Robert Chambers in New College Chapel, Oxford. She worked as an architect for two years in UK and back to New Zealand and employed in Auckland by various practices until she started her own practice in 1985. She completed Reinhard Kanuka’s course in 1990. She divorced with Robert Chambers in 2000.

Career
Claire Chambers has worked for Peddle Thorp and Horman, Adams Dodd Paterson, Fairhead Sang Carnachan and Adams Langley after back to New Zealand from UK. She designed her own house in 1979 in Auckland and built the house in 1980. In the same year, she became a registered architect. She set up her own practice, Claire Chambers Architect, in 1985 in New Market. She was invited to join in WIA in 1979. In early 1980s, she was a member of Women in Architecture Group (WIA) and organized some events. She employed other women architects, such as Denise Civil and Gill Matthewson, before the share-market crashed in 1987. She became an examiner of AERB between 1992 and 1996 and became a Fellow of the NZIA in 1997.

She set up the first practice support group, "Thursday Lunch Group", with Ellen Brinkman and Denise Civil in 1998. The group is to support female architects by sharing experience and discuss architectural matters. It is deemed to be the precursor of the other NZIA Small Practice Groups.

She retired around end of 2018 and suspended her license, but she renewed her registration in 2020.

She is specialized in house renovation and sustainable design, but she also has done many commercial projects.+

She has joined in NZIA, WIA, BBE, AAA, Women in Management, A+W NZ and other organizations.

Family
She has two children, David born in 1984, and Christopher born in 1988. Her husband is Robert Chambers who was the New Zealand High Court Judge. They married in 1977 and parted amicably in 2000.

Project
"Villa Vitality", published in New Zealand Home and Building, 1990. Domestic renovation project.

"61a Seaview Road Remuera", own house. Designed in 1979 and built in 1980.

Rural house, published by New Zealand Houses Today by Marilyn Reynolds in 1988.

Renovation project, "Group Therapy", published by Trends in 1995.

Publication and interview
"Career Check: Architecture", Citygirl, June/July, 1982"Report on women architect", NZ Architect, No.4, 1984

"Feminist Design Criteria", NZ Architect, No.2, 1984

"Women architects", More, 1986

"How I became green", Architecture NZ, 1993

"Army Hut Inspirations", The Owner Builder, 1993