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World-renowned designer David Trubridge believes we must decolonise our mindset and indigenise architecture, learning to think more like trees and design like nature.
A team from Wingate Architects who attended this year’s Orgatec trade fair, held 25-29th October in Cologne, share what’s in store for the working world.
We review the best apps for quick 3D mock-ups, layered multimedia sketching, real-time rendering, immersive visualisation and more…
David Turner writes on an often overlooked housing typology in New Zealand, and lays out why the courtyard housing type deserves a look.
ArchitectureNow’s Editor Jacinda Rogers, curates a selection of eleven films on Shelter, a new streaming platform on everything architecture.
Michael O’Sullivan of Bull O’Sullivan Architecture delivered this year’s Futuna Lecture. Watch it here.
Vanessa Coxhead believes Edmund Bohan’s Heart of the City is the closest we will come to the walls of the cathedral talking.
The largest design fair of this year’s London Design Festival, Design London, returned to Magazine London in North Greenwich for its second edition.
In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie and Donna Luo explore the architectural evolution of Whakatū Nelson.
Bill McKay reviews the latest book on Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser and finds it has much to offer.
‘Whakaora Our Thriving City’ the one-day urban design regeneration wānanga held in Auckland recently went beyond cookie-cutter solutions, Lucie Greenwood writes.
A review of the new book by Jonathan Boelkins and Peter MacKeith, Princeton Architectural Press, 2022.
Behind the Object: We talk to Melany-Jayne Davies, one-half of the husband-and-wife design team at Tréology, about the process of creating a desk reminiscent of Milford Sound.
We partnered with American Standard to share what their Design Catalyst L!VE speakers had to say in approaching sustainable building inside and out.
Two art exhibitions at Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa interweave themes of politics, economics, culture and ecology, writes Luke Mayall.
Abigail Hurst joined Open Christchurch – the opening of 41 buildings, 23 activities and four guided walks to the public - on 30 April and 1 May 2022.
A new book by artist and designer David Trubridge, The Other Way is a profound meditation on our relationship to the natural world.
Te Tangi a te Manu — Aotearoa New Zealand Landscape Assessment Guidelines are set to become a key resource for professionals working in resource management.
Bec Snelling of Snelling Studio (formerly Douglas and Bec) reveals the inspiration and processes behind their latest lighting collection — Lens.
Behind the Object: Lulu Stool. Jacinda Rogers talks to Matt Watkins of Special Studio to discover the process behind the creation of their newest 3D-printed creation, the Lulu Stool.
Mike Austin reviews Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud: Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look by Branko Mitrović.
John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds’ have published their new walking guide to 120 of Wellington’s most interesting buildings.
In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley explore the provincial architecture of Papaioea Palmerston North.
Due to both its early prominence and ongoing wealth, New Plymouth is unlike many other provincial New Zealand cities in that its townscape was made largely by architects who lived there.
With its origins in the practice formed by William Mason (1810–1897) in Dunedin in 1862, Mason & Wales is New Zealand’s oldest architectural practice.
Chris Barton finds Truth and Lies in Architecture to be “both confronting and inspiring in its scope, capturing perfectly the enormity and terror of the architect’s task”
Community-led alternative development models offer solutions to some of the biggest problems that Aotearoa’s citizens are facing today, including limited diversity of housing choices, affordability and increased social isolation.
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.
In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Sebastian Clarke visits New Zealand’s house museums: those places committed to the memory and presentation of bygone New Zealand spaces for living.
Lynda Simmons finds a successful reframing of the works of already well-published artists Colin McCahon and Paul Dibble and architect Jim Hackshaw.
In this month’s Itinerary, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley chronicle tall towers and workspaces that populate our most populous cities.
Kengo Kuma and local surrogates Rough and Milne mastermind “hummocky” design for Peter Thiel’s proposed luxury lodge on the shores of Lake Wānaka.
Kyle Martin discusses this annual student competition, where 12 teams from across the country gathered with one day to design for a mystery brief.
Julia Gatley takes us around locations of architectural significance and interest in the region she grew up in – the country’s eastern port – for this month’s Itinerary.
Lana Lopesi looks at this exhibition, which ran at Artspace Aotearoa from 29 May – 07 August 2021, and “explores kai rituals, notions of space, sovereignty and mapping, and New Zealand’s role in Indigenous dispossession of others.”
For your Itinerary this month, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley look at educational buildings across the country from Dunedin to Hamilton and Auckland.
Sean Flanagan says: “Co-edited by Mike Davis (University of Auckland) and Kathy Waghorn (AUT), [this title] is a bright, new publication that seeks to conceptualise architectural work.
We travel to Otago to compile this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux: a region rich with projects taking architectural risks and leaning on the landscape for inspiration.
Paul Simei-Barton looks at this collaboration from photographer John Miller and architectural designer Elisapeta Heta, which ran at Objectspace from 9 March to 30 May 2021.
Fritha Powell took to her bike to visit as many architectural projects as she could when the city of Christchurch opened its doors to the public in mid-May.