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Planning for cultural resilience
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Cultural resilience is a modern catch cry for something Māori tūpuna (ancestors) did intuitively, and which formed a part of daily life and decision-making. As masters of their environment, tūpuna knew ...

New school on the block
People |
You couldn’t sail a waka as an individual but, as a collective, you can go a long way. Through the programme having an integration between year groups and a collaboration across disciplines, our student...

Hostile architecture, as seen from the suburbs of an expensive city
People |
Hostile architecture is a concept that seems to have gained currency amongst architectural writers some time in the past decade. From what I can tell, it’s the contemporary equivalent of what used to be...

Simple and pure
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We collaborate on design but we don’t get entrenched in it — I enjoy the early stages, the broad thinking and then I like to move on without getting too much into the detail; maybe that’s partly my pers...

On the Rise: Te Ari Prendergast
People |
I was quite influenced by what The Bartlett were doing at the time, which was large scale, detailed line drawings and story telling. AMH: Has your thesis influenced any of your work that you’ve done sin...

Cathedrals of learning
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It is incumbent on us all to make sure this prevails.” So says German economist Klaus Schwab in The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond.1 / As in so many sectors of society, disr...