Helen Tippett

| birth_date = | birth_pace = | death_date = | death_place = }} Helen Margaret Tippett (23 March 1933 – 11 February 2004) was a professor of architecture in Australasia. Her career in academia began in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1969, where she taught 'Design and Practice and Management'. She worked as an architect throughout the Middle East.

She moved to New Zealand, where she was Dean of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington from 1980 to 1983 during the architecture school's early years and helped set its tone. alongside the first Dean Gerd Block. In this position she was the first woman professor of architecture in Australasia, and Victoria University's first woman dean. She later moved into professional practice, co-founding The Architects Collaborative in Wellington.

In 1989, Tippett became the first woman to be elected president of the New Zealand Institute of Architects. She was also very influential in the building industry in New Zealand, and her work resulted in New Zealand's first official building code, and the Building Act 1991. She helped to establish the National Association of Women in Construction (New Zealand). Provided by Wikipedia