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Exhibition: Oceanic Architectural Routes: The photographic archive of Mike Austin
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Mike Austin, known for his humility, would shrink from the title ‘Godfather of Pacific Architecture’, even if I use it in moderate jest. But there is truth in the ruse. Parsing the canon of Pacific arch...
Objectspace presents Mike Austin’s photographic archive Oceanic Architectural Routes
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Oceanic Architectural Routes presents the photographic archive of Mike Austin – more than 1000 images taken during his travels in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands,...
2024 Garvey Cup awarded to Kim Paton
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Projects on the library, John Scott, Rewi Thompson, digitising the image archives of Dr Mike Austin, and “playing a small role in the preservation of crafted objects from [Sir Ian] Athfield’s audacious ...
Grand design down under
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- Mike Austin / I wasn’t sure what to expect of Kevin McCloud’s one-man show, Home Truths. He’s been dubbed the ‘David Attenborough of architecture’ and there’s no denying his success in bringing the su...
Untroubled by theory
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Modernism meant the end of all that stuff about style and would, we believed, be the basis of all future architecture ’til the end of time. A couple of decades later, postmodernism caused consternatio...
Review: Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud
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Branko Mitrović was a valued member of staff at Unitec in Auckland where he taught classical architecture, a subject that tended to be dismissed by colleagues because of its association with other pl...
Book review: John Scott Works
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Disclosure: When I graduated, I wanted to work for John Scott. (I always knew him as John whereas those closer called him Scott or JC.) But after letters and phone calls, we couldn’t ever get it toget...
Architecture of an ocean
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1 Mike Austin, ‘Pacific Island migration’, in Stephen Cairns (ed.) Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy, London, Routledge, 2004, p. 224. 2 Epeli Hau’ofa, ‘The new South Pacific society: Integration an...
Whare meets verandah
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About fifty years ago, in one of a collection of essays entitled The Māori People in the Nineteen-Sixties1, Bruce Biggs (author of the book Let’s Learn Māori2) stated that te reo would become restrict...
Review: In Context: RTA Studio
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Rem Koolhaas famously said: “fuck context”. This was surprising, especially as he is one of the most serious researchers into the circumstances surrounding his architectural projects. Maybe he thinks ...
Obituary: Emeritus Professor Peter John Bartlett
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Mike Austin said that Peter brought a sense of French style and Corbusian intelligence back with him from Europe – the award-winning Glen Innes House was just the sort of house design that younger archi...
Houses revisited: Cardrona River house
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Honesty runs through the bones of this holiday house; honesty hewn in the expression of material, the open dialogue between client, architect and builder, and the approach these overseas clients had t...
Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition
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I stayed at the School, completing a post-professional master’s thesis under Sarah Treadwell’s supervision and a PhD with Mike Linzey and Mike Austin. My doctoral thesis argued that Māori buildings and ...
NZIA launches New Zealand 2014 Venice Biennale exhibition
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Mitchell, director of Auckland-based Mitchell & Stout Architects, is joined by architects Julie Stout, Mike Austin, Ginny Pedlow, Rick Pearson and Julian Mitchell, academic and practitioner Rau Hoskins,...
Colour Collab: Craig Moller
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I also like what I call “Architect’s Green”, the colour of bathroom tiles in the ’80s and Frank Gehry’s kitchen but also what I recall was the trouser colour of my teachers, Mike Austin and David Mitche...
Found in translation
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Most continue to live at low levels and, if the Pacific site is the “edge between land and water”,3 as Mike Austin so cleanly describes it, then the internationalising here is the down-low contribution....
Bridging the gaps: Deidre Brown
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You had people like Mike Austin talking about Māori architecture and Mike Linzey teaching about Māori architecture from a theoretical perspective. But, at that time, there weren’t a lot of settlements y...
Remembering David Mitchell
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Mike Austin: David and I were complicated friends – regularly working together but maybe mutually envious. I was in awe of his courage and outspokenness in so many spheres. For example: while I grew up ...
2015 Wellington Architecture Awards
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The 2015 Wellington Local Awards jury included Arindam Sen of Foundation Architects, Professor Mike Austin of the Unitec Department of Architecture, William Giesen of Atelierworkshop and Victoria Willoc...
From court to camp
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As the research of Mike Austin and others has indicated, the sites are often selected so there are associated landscape features reinforcing the form and creating a backdrop which adds power to the dire...
That’s it, I’m architecture shaming
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Or as Mike Austin recently wrote, a focus on theory seems to promote certain architectural and presentation outcomes, which often are inaccessible for the public. As Wagner continues, “many folks are bi...
With Patrick Clifford
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We learnt drawing from Pat Hanley, who was a very helpful and incredibly encouraging teacher, and people like Fred Beckett, Dave Mitchell and Mike Austin, who were practising and working in a completely...
Transcolonisation: 1990–2020
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Although there was significant research into South Pacific architecture by Mike Austin7 and Michael Linzey8, this learning was optional. There was no core allocation in the curriculum for any indigenous...
On the Rise: Raphaela Rose
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Brazil's my next travel destination so I can go and see her work! / AMH: What's one piece of advice you’d give to your student self? / RR: I wish that I’d had my thesis tutor Mike’s advice to 'relax and...
Alien subversives
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Secondly, as the only institution teaching architecture at the time, the Auckland School of Architecture was dominated for decades by nationalist/regionalist advocates, such as Mike Austin, Vernon Brown...
NZIA Gold Medal winner: Pete Bossley
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David Mitchell, Mike Austin and John Dickson were the main three for me. So, what was it that they imparted? How did they inspire you? I think it was an adventurous and very different approach to doing...
Pattersons
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Mike Austin discusses this Pacific idea of spatial separation as a positive space in his essay ‘Oceanic Architecture’. “Differentiation and separation are achieved not by walls and partitions, but by sp...