Pip Cheshire

Contributor Profile

Architect and writer, recipient of the NZIA Gold Medal and Past President of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Occupation: Architect

Location: Auckland

Website: http://cheshirearchitects.com/

Architectural Drawings of Christ’s College

Review | Pip Cheshire finds Sir Miles Warren and Alec Bruce’s collection of architectural drawings, accompanied by “erudite commentary and fine observations”, also tells a story of the evolution of drawing.

Opinion: Off with my head!

Practice | Pip Cheshire recommends an industry-wide road map to survival and resilience.

Opinion: Force de frappe

Practice | Pip Cheshire finds himself in a bit of a dilemma when it comes to government directives on housing density: the nimby versus the urbanist versus the politico.

Opinion: On confusion

Practice | Pip Cheshire writes about the critical place anticipation and agency have in our trade. “We spend most of our time making marks and orchestrating events with long gestations and repercussions well beyond our formal engagement.”

Opinion: A planetary price to pay

Practice | Pip Cheshire discusses the architects’ role in saving the world: “At issue, though, is whether we architects can effect any meaningful change in our bailiwick…”

Review: Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People Place Landscape

Review | Pip Cheshire explores this book, which offers 40 essays that explore the relationship of Māori with land and its critical role in Māori identity.

Opinion: We do not live by bread alone

Practice | Pip Cheshire: “…it seems a fair assumption to me: that is, that aside from making private delights, we might also do our best on main street for the body politic”.

Traversing the digital-to-artefact divide: Brick Bay Folly 2021

News | Brick Bay Folly mentor Pip Cheshire considers the gap between the projected and the possible, and finds the winning entry, Genealogy of the Pacific, has bridged it deftly.

Fine-tuning a few elements

Practice | Pip Cheshire traverses influences in his design practice, from the shoebox to Donald Judd to Don Clarke to the raw and the cooked.

Opinion: Awake awake

Practice | Pip Cheshire muses, “…the phoenix-like re-emergence of the design press after the woes of COVID’s first assault has begot a major thirst for content.”

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