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Architects, not Architecture debuts in New Zealand

News | A trio of Aotearoa’s distinguished talents took to the stage: Elisapeta Heta of Jasmax, Sally Ogle of Patchwork Architecture and Christopher Kelly of Architecture Workshop. Each presented a deeply perso...

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

Review | If you haven’t noticed, there’s a movement rising. The groundswell is gathering force. And here, in little Aotearoa, we keep finding ourselves right in the heart of it — sometimes charging ahead at th...

Architects, not Architecture 2025 — Auckland edition

News | In that same year, Kelly was one of the international judges of the inaugural World Festival of Architecture in Barcelona. / Elisapeta Heta is a principal and Kaihautū Whaihanga - Māori design leader a...

Jasmax promotes Elisapeta Heta to Principal

News | “Elisapeta Heta has already made an enormous contribution toward Jasmax becoming a bicultural design practice," says Sjoerd Post, CEO at Jasmax. "With her leadership and guidance, we are excited about w...

Elisapeta Heta honoured at NZIA award ceremony

People | Jasmax Principal and Kaihautū Whaihanga Elisapeta Heta received a prestigious NZIA President’s Award for 2022. The award reflects Elisapeta’s influence as a changemaker and cultural leader in indigenous...

Elisapeta Heta to represent NZIA and Ngā Aho at World Congress of Architects

News | A principal and Kaihautū Whaihanga at Jasmax, Heta’s nomination by Ngā Aho, which was supported by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects, will see her represent Aotearoa New Zealand a...

NZIA board co-opts Māori architectural graduate

News | The New Zealand Institute of Architects has recently co-opted Elisapeta Heta – architectural graduate at Jasmax – as the Ngā Aho representative to its board. At 29, Heta is one of the youngest board mem...

“Uplifting and empowering”: Interior Awards 2021 Emerging Design Professional

Awards | A founding member of the firm's cultural advisory group Waka Māia, Elisapeta Heta of Jasmax impressed this year's Interior Awards jury with her collaborative design approach, earning her the title of th...

Women honoured at construction awards

News | One of her life goals is to lead an all-female drilling crew.” / Jasmax graduate, Elisapeta Heta, won the Rising Star Award (office-based category) for her continued work in connecting Te Ao Māori value...

Review: Pouwātū: Active Presence

Review | A remarkable collaboration between photographer John Miller and architectural designer Elisapeta Heta offers a solution and presents a cogent challenge to the ephemeral status photographs have acquired ...

Meet Autex Acoustics: Sponsor of the Interior Awards 2022

People | Jonathan, tell us about one of the previous winners of the Interior Awards that resonated with you and why? / Jonathan: I was stoked when Elisapeta Heta of Jasmax won the Emerging Design Professional aw...

2017 AAA Visionary Architecture Awards: winners

News | This year, 12 projects were awarded for their exceptional visions for the future. Elisapeta Heta also presented a guest lecture reflecting on her so far short but stellar career. The annual AAA Visionar...

Jasmax appoints Robert Jahnke as cultural advisor

News | Professor of Māori Visual Arts at Massey University and one of Aotearoa’s leading Māori artists, Professor Jahnke will provide guidance to Jasmax as the practice continues to embed a bicultural approa...

Jasmax announces 2022 scholarship recipient

News | The scholarship is awarded to students enrolling in the first year of a Bachelor of Architectural Studies at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland and is worth $5,000 per annum for up to five ye...

2022 John Sutherland Award winner: Architecture+Women•NZ

Awards | In 2012, Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoan and Tokelauan whakapapa) joined the organisation and, the following year, it held the exhibition Between Silos. It was a response to Co...

The architect/the advocate: The role of advocacy and influence in architecture and design

Review | So, he created a voice, a method and, now, a paradigm in Nightingale Housing that is successional and influencing and is still profitable, but not solely in dollar terms. / Elisapeta Heta from Jasmax i...

New TV series The Drawing Board documents the rise of Māori architecture

News | Episode 7 – Tere Insley, Elisapeta Heta and Raukura Turei, wahine toa incorporating an indigenous aesthetic that considers tikanga and mātauranga Māori, shaping spaces through a Māori lens. Episode 8 – ...

The Drawing Board

Review | Episode seven could have opened the series, given the charged commentary from its wāhine toa (Tere Insley, Elisapeta Heta and Raukura Turei), who note the absence of te ao Māori in the university curr...

The gift of a new cloak

People | The words Te Kāhui Whaihanga will now be incorporated in the Institute’s title. / Dr Williams (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakataa, Ngāi Tūhoe) and NZIA Councillor Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwi, Waikato Tainu...

Women in architecture #2

People | Amelia Melbourne-Hayward: What has been your experience of pay equity between women and men in architecture? Do you see this as a problem and, if so, what steps do you think we can take to improve the...

Jasmax Māori Cultural Advisory

Practice | At Jasmax, four young Māori architects, Brendan Himona, Haley Hooper, Elisapeta Heta and Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe have set up the Jasmax Māori Cultural Advisory and are endeavouring to make Māori cu...

Event review: Dissent 2019

Review | Rau Hoskins introduced guests and delegates to the Te Aranga Principles and methods of engaging with mana whenua; Justine Clark and Dr Gill Matthewson shared the work of Parlour; Elisapeta Heta poetical...

Binding traditions

Practice | The book brings them together again by illuminating the contribution of Māori visual artists to contemporary architecture and the work of Māori architectural designers in contemporary art. Toi Te Mana...

Winners announced at the 2021 Interior Awards

Awards | Elisapeta has co-chaired and acted as secretary for Architecture+Women.NZ and was co-opted as Ngā Aho representative to Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA. Her ambition is to continue to co-design authentic, ident...

Opinion: Making room

Practice | At the Architecture+Women. NZ (A+W.NZ) AGM, held on 19 June 2019, I stood down from the position of Co-Chair, a role I have been in since our founding days in May 2011.1 In an attempt to flatten the h...

Architecture Week 2016

Review | MADDIE PALMER / Generation rent, homelessness, housing crisis: these are words that now frequent the media. They are dominant headlines that seem as dire as does the lack of affordable homes in New Ze...

Auckland Architecture Week 2015

Review | Elisapeta Heta led ‘He Wei: A song?’ with her usual patience and good sense of humour. This was followed by the launch of The Architecture of the Expanded Field, edited by Sarah Treadwell and Lucy Treep...

Diversity in architecture: part two

Practice | Here right now / Elisapeta Heta is a founding member of Jasmax’s Māori Cultural Advisory Group, Waka Maia, a team of designers which facilitates engagement with mana whenua groups on built-environment p...

Diversity in architecture: part one

Practice | Back in 2015, Brendan Himona, Elisapeta Heta, Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe and Haley Hooper set up Waka Maia, the Māori Cultural Advisory Group at Jasmax, to facilitate engagement with mana whenua group...

On the Rise: Micheal McCabe

People | One of my biggest jobs off the bat was Company Of Potters with Objectspace that Elisapeta Heta sort-of referred me on to, and I have been working with Objectspace and the team there ever since. It has b...