Mark Southcombe

Mark has focused on design and research, New Zealand architecture, Whanganui architectural history, high density urban housing, architectural theory and praxis, and design practice teaching.

Location: New Zealand

Following the whenua

Projects | Mark Southcombe visits Parsonson Architects’ Long House in Wellington’s Churton Park and finds a home designed with both landform and landscape in mind.

Projects | Mark Southcombe finds the essential character of Wellington’s Cuba Street in Athfield Architects’ remaking of the Farmers Building and adjoining buildings to be a sensitive bridging of time.

Houses Revisited: Back to black

Projects | Look back at this house from our 2007 archives: In Wanganui, Dalgleish Architects look beyond precedent to design a ‘new traditional home’.

Going beyond the brief

Projects | Athfield Architects’ Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub proves to prioritise placemaking and connections to the urban context.

Old school revival

Projects | Mark Southcombe explores the architectural legacy of Whanganui Collegiate School and its new additions by RTA Studio.

The city of privilege

Practice | As urban house prices in New Zealand soar, are we in danger of building socially stratified, exclusive cities of privilege?