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==