Diane Brand

Diane Joy Brand is a New Zealand architecture academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.
Academic career.
After a BArch at Auckland in 1979 and practising professionally, Brand did a post-professional Masters of architecture in urban design at Harvard Returning Auckland for a PhD she entered academia, working at both Victoria University of Wellington (rising to full professor in 2011) and then back to the University of Auckland.
Much of Brand's work concerns 'bluespace'—coastly urban design.
Brand is a member of both the New Zealand Institute of Architects and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and has been involved with CERA, rebuilding Christchurch after the earthquakes. She is also on the New Zealand Registered Architects Board.