Click to enlarge Architect Dave Strachan joins the likes of John Scott, Sir Ian Athfield, Roger Walker and Jeremy Salmond as an NZIA Gold Medal recipient. Image: Adrian Malloch 1 of 13 2 of 13 3 of 13 4 of 13 5 of 13 6 of 13 7 of 13 8 of 13 9 of 13 10 of 13 11 of 13 12 of 13 13 of 13 Auckland architect Dave Strachan of Strachan Group Architects (SGA) has been awarded the 2020 Gold Medal, New Zealand’s highest honour for an individual architect, by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects. Dave Strachan, the architect who was nicknamed ‘Four-by-two’ by his architecture school peers in reference to his origins as a self-taught builder, accepted the NZIA Gold Medal at a function in Auckland’s Morningside on Thursday 25 February.