Dorita Hannah

Contributor Profile

Dorita Hannah is a transdisciplinary designer and independent academic whose research, teaching and practice operate across the spatial, performing and visual arts. Her projects, which range from consulting on theatre architecture to designing and curating public events, are mechanisms for addressing the dynamics, politics and intermediality of the public realm.

A polyphonic assemblage

Projects | Dorita Hannah tours Toi Manawa Kīngi Kāreti, King’s College’s new performing arts centre, and enjoys the dynamic tension in Patterson Associates’ design.

The Hannah Playhouse: Theatre architecture as enduring event

Projects | This year’s arts festivals in both Wellington and Auckland were distinguished by a superb New Zealand theatre work, Gravity and Grace, developed in Wellington’s Hannah Playhouse, now referred to as The Hannah.

An atmosphere of recovery

Projects | Dorita Hannah visits Klein Architects’ transformative Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit, Tiaho Mai, and discovers a new era in therapeutic design.

Shaping a richer culture

Projects | Dorita Hannah explores Diocesan School for Girls’ basilica-like Performing Arts Centre by McIldowie Partners in association with Upton Architects and what it highlights about the value of theatre in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau.