John Walsh

Designing better futures for Aotearoa: A Māori perspective

Review | John Walsh attended the 2023 Futuna Lecture delivered by Hawkes Bay-based designers Jacob Scott and Karl Wixon.

Book review: Unfinished & Far Far Away: The Architecture of Irving Smith Architects

Review | John Walsh reviews Unfinished & Far Far Away: The Architecture of Irving Smith Architects which looks at 10 projects led by Jeremy Smith and Andrew Irving.

Green commons

Projects | John Walsh visits the Toiora High Street Cohousing project in Ōtepoti Dunedin, by Architype, and finds a connection to a timeless tradition of shared space.

Futuna Lecture 2022 – Michael O’Sullivan

Review | Michael O’Sullivan of Bull O’Sullivan Architecture delivered this year’s Futuna Lecture. Watch it here.

Houses Revisited: Little paua

Projects | Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.

Revisited: Jack Manning’s Gold Medal interview

People | In tribute to the late architect Jack Manning, we have republished the interview following his receipt of the 2011 NZIA Gold Medal. He talks with John Walsh about his childhood, his career and his approach to architecture.

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Projects | From 2006: London is not an easy city to leave, but one family decided on a new start, in a new place, in a new house. Now they live on a hill above a Waiheke bay in a contemporary home designed by Geoff Richards.

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Projects | Architecture Page Henderson’s Taupo holiday house, first published in 2007, is a sensitive response to site and client requirements.

Houses Revisited: Light touch

Projects | From the 2007 archives: In a paddock outside Levin, Chris Johns designed a comfortable and disarmingly simple country home.

Houses Revisited: Crafty rooster

Projects | From the archives: Visit a home on a steep Wellington site, in an old part of town, where Parsonson Architects have designed a clever townhouse.