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Exhibition: Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators

Exhibition: Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators

18 Apr 2025, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Elisapeta Heta reviews Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators, a powerful reclamation of space.

Book review: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education

Book review: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education

11 Apr 2025, Lynda Simmons

Lynda Simmons reviews The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education, a book aimed at students, educators and practitioners insistent on change.

Itinerary City Guide: Levin

Itinerary City Guide: Levin

9 Apr 2025, Andrew Barrie

In this Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie tours 14 resilient buildings in Levin.

Behind the Object: Walker & Bing x Dilana Fez Collection

Behind the Object: Walker & Bing x Dilana Fez Collection

26 Mar 2025, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Design studio Walker & Bing applies a fine art discipline to its textile design projects. We look at the studio’s Fez Collection collaboration with Dilana Rugs and how storytelling is woven into each unique piece.

Itinerary: Sports architecture

Itinerary: Sports architecture

20 Feb 2025, Andrew Barrie

In this Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie highlights 14 projects with significant ties to New Zealand’s sporting culture.

The Brutalist: Form over function

The Brutalist: Form over function

4 Feb 2025, Patrick Sherwood

Patrick Sherwood finds the recently released film to be disappointingly light on Brutalism but full of promise and complexity.

Book review: Urban Aotearoa: The Future of Our Cities

Book review: Urban Aotearoa: The Future of Our Cities

24 Jan 2025, Karamia Müller

Karamia Müller sees Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities by David Batchelor and Bill McKay, as a thought-provoking exploration of New Zealand’s urban landscapes.

Herbst: Architecture In Context

Herbst: Architecture In Context

17 Dec 2024, Sean Flanagan

Sean Flanagan reviews Herbst Architects’ recently published monograph of key works authored by John Walsh and finds it “an elegant record of a highly awarded practice”.

The buildings notice me and Duncan Winder: architectural photographs

The buildings notice me and Duncan Winder: architectural photographs

9 Dec 2024, Simon Twose

Simon Twose visits two architectural exhibitions at Wellington’s Te Pataka Toi Gallery 13 July–22 September 2024 and finds a curation of multiple exchanges.

Itinerary_ Housing, not Houses 2: Alternative Models

Itinerary_ Housing, not Houses 2: Alternative Models

28 Nov 2024, Andrew Barrie, Julia Gatley

In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Julia Gatley and Andrew Barrie examine 14 alternative approaches to apartment buildings.

Building homes that are good for your health

Building homes that are good for your health

1 Nov 2024, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

An informative and entertaining ‘open source’ book doubles as a reference document for tradies, educators, students and prospective homeowners.

Behind the Object: La~De~Da Pendant

Behind the Object: La~De~Da Pendant

16 Oct 2024, Jacinda Rogers

Nightworks Studio, bespoke lighting specialists in Ōtautahi Christchurch, tell us how they landed on the exaggerated gentility embodied in the design of its new La~De~Da Pendant.

Queen Street: To evolve or devolve?

Queen Street: To evolve or devolve?

15 Oct 2024, Annabelle Smith

Annabelle Smith reviews the ‘The Great Debate’, part of 2024’s Aotearoa Festival of Architecture, where wine was poured while a motion was raised: “Queen Street must evolve!”

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

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

10 Oct 2024, Anthony Hōete

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

Itinerary_ Housing, not Houses 1: Increasing Density

Itinerary_ Housing, not Houses 1: Increasing Density

3 Oct 2024, Julia Gatley

In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Julia Gatley and Andrew Barrie examine 14 enduring apartment buildings from across the country.

Exhibition: Our Asymmetric City

Exhibition: Our Asymmetric City

20 Sep 2024, Sahil Tiku

Sahil Tiku reviews the week-long exhibition Our Asymmetric City in Auckland, a challenging studio project that warranted “dynamic, responsive schemes”.

Building Change: World Green Infrastructure Congress 2024

Building Change: World Green Infrastructure Congress 2024

11 Sep 2024, Rebecca Mills

Leading sustainability strategist Rebecca Mills provides key takeaways from the WGIC held in Auckland on September 3–4 and attended by over 600 delegates.

Plural, meaning, motion: A meditation on landscapes

A meditation on landscapes

6 Sep 2024, Donna Luo

University of Auckland School of Architecture student Donna Luo considers our responsibilities with regard to the land on which we live.

What’s behind your skin?

What’s behind your skin?

21 Aug 2024, Sahil Tiku

A new student-led publication behind the skin shines a light on the thoughts of a generation of architecture students whose collective experiences have been nothing but the norm.

Book: Architectural Exaptation When Function Follows Form

Book: Architectural Exaptation When Function Follows Form

5 Aug 2024, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

As New Zealand CBDs evolve post-pandemic, repurposing old or empty spaces should be on the drawing board writes Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, co-author of new book.

Itinerary City Guide: Whanganui

Itinerary City Guide: Whanganui

1 Aug 2024, Andrew Barrie

Andrew Barrie and Audrey Lam profile fourteen notable buildings in Whanganui, a city that has served as something of an incubator for architectural talent over the centuries.

Exhibition: Monica Barham So You’re Building: You and the Architect

Exhibition: Monica Barham So You’re Building: You and the Architect

24 Jul 2024, Bronwen Kerr

Bronwen Kerr reviews Monica Barham So You’re Building: You and the Architect, an exhibition running from 11 May–16 June 2024 at He Waka Tuia, Invercargill.

Film review: Maurice and I

Film review: Maurice and I

19 Jul 2024, Julia Gatley

Julia Gatley reviews Maurice and I, directed by Rick Harvie and Jane Mahoney.

Crossing Thresholds: Open Christchurch 2024

Crossing Thresholds: Open Christchurch 2024

16 Jul 2024, Fritha Powell

Architectural graduate Fritha Powell finds the continuing tradition of Open Christchurch both progressive and inspiring, with examples offering valuable lessons for the future.

Not strong enough

Not strong enough

15 Jul 2024, Annabelle Smith

Annabelle Smith gains insight into the challenges ahead for sustainable construction at the 2024 Housing Summit.

Influential speakers at ASAC 2024

Influential speakers at ASAC 2024

8 Jul 2024, Sakina Ali

Sakina Ali, provides a rundown of this year’s Australasian Student Architecture Congress held in Tasmania, saying the lineup of speakers left students “buzzing”.

The Firth NZILA Wānanga

The Firth NZILA Wānanga

7 Jun 2024, Stephen Olsen

An epic cross-section of experts spoke on the challenges and regenerative power of landscape architecture both locally and internationally. Stephen Olsen writes.

Itinerary: Monica F Barham in Southland

Itinerary: Monica F Barham in Southland

4 Jun 2024, Megan Rule

This Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, highlights 13 projects by Monica F Barham — the first in a series dedicated to a singular female architect’s practice work.

Sweet picks from Salone 2024

Sweet picks from Salone 2024

15 May 2024, Rarebirds Interiors

Sean Monk and Kelly Gammie of Rarebirds Interiors provide their picks from the designer’s lolly shop that was Salone del Mobile 2024, this year hosting the EuroCucina exhibition.

Exhibition: Womb Chair Speaks

Exhibition: Womb Chair Speaks

14 May 2024, Gina Hochstein

Gina Hochstein discusses Womb Chair Speaks, an exhibition hosted by the University of Auckland, designed by renowned mid-century modernist architect Eero Saarinen.

Book Review: Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition

Book Review: Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition

29 Apr 2024, Patrick Sherwood

Patrick Sherwood discusses how authors Ong Ker-Shing and Joshua Comaroff analyse the “agonising presence of horror” underlying not only the built environment but our very society.

Review: Fair Play

Fair Play

22 Apr 2024, Emma Harvey-Gibbs

Emma Harvey-Gibbs, Procurement Manager at CTRL Space, shares her experiences of travelling to furniture fairs across the world in 2023.

Dan Sullivan’s top picks: Open Chch 2024

Dan Sullivan’s top picks: Open Chch 2024

22 Apr 2024, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

With so much on choice over its three days (May 3rd–5th), Dan Sullivan provides his picks from this year’s festival offering open access to 50 notable Ōtautahi buildings.

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens

15 Apr 2024, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Peter Sergel’s new book, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens, is the story of how a rubbish dump was transformed into a world-class attraction.

Sheppard & Rout Architects Vol 1 1982–2021

Book: Sheppard & Rout Architects Vol 1 1982–2021

4 Apr 2024, Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith reviews the first volume covering Sheppard & Rout Architects’ first 39-years and contemplates the “a much-ado-about-everything calling” that is writing a book.

Book Review: Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice

Book Review: Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice

29 Mar 2024, Graeme McConchie

Graeme McConchie reviews the latest book in the Time Honored Architectural Conservation Documentation series.

Itinerary: Heritage conservation stories of our era

Itinerary: Heritage conservation stories of our era

26 Mar 2024, Andrew Barrie, Julia Gatley

In this month’s itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley call attention to 14 heritage sites in New Zealand.

Grand design down under

Grand design down under

21 Mar 2024, Mike Austin, Amanda Harkness

Mike Austin considers the long-running TV series franchise and its missing component — the architect — while Amanda Harkness goes to see Kevin McCloud on tour.

New energy: Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024

4 Mar 2024, Gestalt Studios

Multidisciplinary designers Ella Lilley-Gasteiger and Nathan Swaney of Gestalt Studios on the trends and stand-out exhibitors from this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Poor Things: A surreal, grand architectural tour

Poor Things: A surreal, grand architectural tour

27 Feb 2024, Patrick Sherwood

Films are always architectural. And for Yorgos Lanthimos of The Favourite and The Lobster renown, settings are integral to embodying both plot and mood.

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