Anthony Hōete

Contributor Profile

Anthony Hōete (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Rānana) is a professor of Architecture at the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning and was the first Māori to be registered as an architect in the UK and in the Netherlands. He is a founding director of the RIBA chartered practice WHAT_architecture and the property developer Game of Architecture.

Talking Architecture: From Bla-bla-blarchitecture to the Negroni Talks

Review | Anthony Hōete believes podcasts such as Negroni Talks are an instrumental design resource, where candid architectural discourse generates new waves of thinking.

Towards an old architecture

Projects | Anthony Hōete finds an emergent force in play at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato University of Waikato’s The Pā, designed in collaboration by Architectus, Jasmax and designTRIBE.

The Drawing Board

Review | Anthony Hōete watched Whakaata Māori’s The Drawing Board with Matilda Phillips and, together, they consider its narrative on the rise of Māori architecture.

Transcolonisation: 1990–2020

Practice | Anthony Hoete traces 30 years of the slow road to Te Ao Māori architecture in Aotearoa and the quest to reconcile colonial traditions and European influences with a sustained interest in the indigenous project.