A Life in Architecture

Audrey Kight was born in Kington, Jamaica where she attended Wolmer’s Girls’ and St. Hugh’s High schools. She studied architecture on scholarship at Budapest Technical University in Budapest, Hungary graduating with a master’s degree. She returned to Jamaica and worked as an architect with the firms McMorris, Sibley, Robinson and Clifton Yap Architects.

As a passionate designer, she set up her own practice where she was engaged in the design of unique single-family homes, mixed use developments and Master plans before leaving Jamaica in 1999. She also served on the board of directors of the Urban Development Corporation UDC. She has taught at the Caribbean School of Architecture.

Audrey has also worked as an architect and project manager in Botswana, Barbados, UK and Luxembourg on a range of residential, resort, commercial and institutional projects. She is a registered architect, a chartered member of the Royal Institute of Architects and now resides in the UK.

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