Heather Hocken Architect Ltd

Heather Hocken is a NZIA Registered Architect and an Architectural Photographer. She is passionate about our built environment and wants to make it a better place for people to live, work and play in. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture with Honours at Victoria University Wellington in 2000, following completion of a scholarship to the Masters Program in Architecture at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. She went on to practice architecture in the United Kingdom and completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Architectural Practice at Leeds Metropolitan University, registering as an Architect in the UK in 2004. Before setting up her own office in NZ she was a Project Architect for Athfield Architects and an Associate Architect for Designgroup Stapleton Elliott. During this time she has specialized in architectural photography and completed a Bachelor of Applied Visual Imaging at the internationally recognized Universal College of Learning in Palmerston North in 2013. In 2012 she won an NZIPP Iris Gold award and in 2013 an Iris Silver and Bronze. She now compliments her architectural studio work with architectural photography, showing her eye for design and detail.