Patrick Reynolds

I am an experienced and innovative director with a strong record of community service. I focus on finding real solutions to real problems. I am currently deputy chair of the City Centre Advisory Panel. Previously I held governance roles with Waka Kotahi/NZTA, Auckland Transport, and in Public Art (Auckland) Economic Advisory (Rotorua). I only accept roles where I believe there is a positive solution ready to be applied.

I am passionate about the quality of our cities and how to fix them, including how we electrify everything in order to build a more prosperous, fairer, and more sustainable world. I love Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau and know that here we can make a great and abundant city for all its people, one that not only protects, but enhances its beautiful natural setting. 

An important key to that is enabling many more of our rooftops to become power plants. A relatively simple and cost competitive intervention that, when combined with other new technologies, is proving to be surprisingly powerful all over the world: a lot of a little equals a lot.

I come to this work from a background in art and architecture photography, through exhibitions, books, and commercial practice. More recently I have been writing about urban form and transport, particularly at Greater Auckland. In 2013 I was awarded the NZIA’s president’s award for services to architecture.

I am a born and bred Aucklander: I grew up in Howick, lived in Parnell and the city centre as a student, and now live in Westmere. With my family I have a bach on a clifftop in the Waitakere Ranges that has been fully off the grid and solar powered for more than four decades.

The future is unwritten. It is ours to create a better world if we dare. 

Contact details

patrick@patrickreynolds.co.nz

0274 722 388