NZIA City Talks Wellington

City Talks is an ongoing series initiated by the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch and presented in partnership with City Gallery Wellington.

This session, held on Monday 20 July at the City Gallery Wellington in Civic Square, Patrick Reynolds, Martin Hanley and Anna Kemble Welch discuss the dilemmas of transport within cities.

Patrick Reynolds blogs on the urban planning website transportblog.co.nz, is an architectural photographer, and tutors at the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland. Speaking in his capacity as an author of the Transport blog, he will present Seductive Congestion, a paper based on a recent presentation given to the Ministry of Transport.

Martin Hanley and Anna Kemble Welsh run the Red Design Architects practice in Newtown. They will speak on the case study of Urban Activation Lab’s proposed Te Papa to Island Bay Cycleway, proposing a meaningful alternative to the current condition.

Martin is a part time tutor at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Architecture and serves on numerous voluntary boards and in community liaison roles including assisting the Newtown Residents’ Association on urban design and resource management issues.

Anna is an architect whose practice often focuses on the innovative and unexpected occupancy and inhabitation of space and places in unintended ways. Together, they organise the Newtown Festival and are hugely active in the community.

6pm start - free entry.