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 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.
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Karamia Müller muses on centring Māoridom: “My answer is: we must try and, when we get it wrong, we must be open to correction with humility.”
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Karamia Müller notes: “Architecture does touch everybody. This is its ecstasy. And it is this quality that makes the debates underpinning the profession, the practices and the community of practitioners so compelling and critical.”