Dr Karamia Müller is a Pacific academic specialising in indigenous space concepts. Currently a lecturer at the School of Architecture and Planning, Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland, her research specialises in the meaningful ‘indigenisation’ of design methodologies invested in building futures resistant to inequality.
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Karamia Müller ponders New Zealand’s housing crisis and its connection with a decreased lifespan, and after discussion with former tutor Graeme Burgess, arrives at a possible solution.
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Karamia Müller considers artificial intelligence, its relationship to creativity, and the ethics surrounding its application in the course of architectural study and/or practice.
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Karamia Müller discusses the Mike Austin photography exhibition, designed by Hannah Manning-Scott for Objectspace, curated by Leali’ifano Albert L. Refiti.
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Karamia Müller calls for more irony, cynicism and criticality over beauty, earnestness and elitism upon revisiting the architectural satire account: @dank.lloyd.wright.
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Karamia Müller visits Kōtukutuku Papakāinga, a Mahitahi Trust social housing project in Auckland’s Ōtara, and finds TOA Architects has created a place of special significance, which welcomes, protects and fosters connections.
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Karamia Müller on the role of the architectural reviewer to not only appraise architecture based on its design merits but its wider transformative impact.