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 master's of architecture in urban design at Harvard. Returning to Auckland for a PhD, her 2001 doctoral thesis was titled Southern crossings: colonial urban design in Australia and New Zealand. She subsequently entered academia, working at both Victoria University of Wellington (rising to full professor in 2011 ) and then back to the University of Auckland.

Selected works Brand, Diane. "Bluespace: a typological matrix for port cities." Urban Design International 12, no. 2-3 (2007): 69–85. Brand, Diane. "Surveys and sketches: 19th‐century approaches to colonial urban design." Journal of Urban Design 9, no. 2 (2004): 153–175.