Simple and pure

Simple and pure

Practice | HMOA’s founding directors consider the evolution of the practice over the past 26 years and the importance of relationships, resilience and respect.
Words: HMOA Posted: 28 Feb 2024
State house sustainability

State house sustainability

Practice | Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities General Manager Patrick Dougherty explains the recent evolution in public housing and his hopes that it will catalyse change in the residential sector.
Posted: 4 May 2022
Inspiration by incident

Inspiration by incident

Practice | Patrick Clifford reflects on what comprises the Architectus design process. He finds a heady mix of methods: from sociograms to serendipity, iterations, words generating spatial arrangements, co-design, collaboration, questioning the extent of the site and asking “why not?” to the primacy of the pin-up, to name a few.
Instagrammable moments

Instagrammable moments

Practice | Scott Compton discusses changing workplace design in the age of Covid, the rise of the distributed campus model and creating magnetic, experiential workspaces for empowered employees.
Six storey love song

Six storey love song

Practice | Matthew Paetz grapples with new density controls in the National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020, perhaps the most significant government policy for cities in Aotearoa New Zealand of the past 30 years.
Transcolonisation: 1990–2020

Transcolonisation: 1990–2020

Practice | Anthony Hoete traces 30 years of the slow road to Te Ao Māori architecture in Aotearoa and the quest to reconcile colonial traditions and European influences with a sustained interest in the indigenous project.