Christie Architecture Ltd was formed in 2008 by Fiona Christie, a New Zealand Registered Architect. Ewan MacMaster joined as a Director in 2016 bringing with him a wide range of experience and skills across a variety of project scales. Fiona and Ewan both have 25+ years of architectural experience.
Fiona Christie
Director
Fiona is a NZ Registered Architect and has had responsibility for a range of project types over her 25 year career from industrial buildings, wineries, commercial fitout work, educational work and in housing.
She enjoys residential design and works with a range of clients and budgets. She enjoys the process of working with people to achieve the home they aspire to and is interested in how people use and react to spaces and objects within these spaces.
Fiona likes building relationships with people and learning what it is they need and want in their projects, and then helping them achieve that.
These spaces are not always large or expensive but recognizing that, despite the budget or resource restrictions, a high quality and joyful space can be achieved with good design.
She has a strong understanding of related legislation and building processes particularly around the requirements pertaining to residential housing and has worked on various projects located around many parts of the country.
Ewan MacMaster
Director
Ewan has been practising as a Designer and lead on projects for 25 years working in small, medium and large size practices in Wellington on a range of projects around NZ.
These projects are of a range of scales and types from a small intricate meditation temple, to award winning residential work, multi-unit apartments and large-scale commercial and public projects.
Ewan's strengths lie in working through elegant design solutions as well as complex construction detailing. He has a strong interest and experience in environmental design, and associated materials and systems, in projects ranging in size from small residential to large scale commercial.
Ewan works with clients to bring this expertise into the projects he undertakes.
Petra Parker-Price
Registered Architect
Petra gained her Master’s of Architecture from Victoria University of Wellington where her research into physical making convinced her to build a tiny house for her mum in the Taranaki.
Petra joined Christie Architecture in 2021 and in this time has had the chance to work on a wide range of residential projects from concept to construction. Her hands on experience at Christie Architecture has also enabled her to become a New Zealand Registered Architect. Petra loves being on site and finds working with Clients and Contractors to realise a project incredibly rewarding.
Phoebe Slessor
Architectural Cadet
Phoebe began studying interior architecture and spent a year working in lighting design. After spending time overseas she decided to return to Wellington and pursue her Masters in Architecture.
After gaining her masters she spent a year working and traveling through South America, before returning to New Zealand and working for Christie Architecture.
Creating spaces that can uplift people's well beings, using sustainable construction methods is what excites her most about a career in Architecture.