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Book review: The Architect as Worker
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A review of The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design, edited by Peggy Deamer.
Coast. Country. Neighbourhood. City.
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This newly released book documents 25 projects that express Isthmus’ personal ideology, style and body of work.
Book review: Worship
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Guy Marriage reviews Worship, a book on the architecture of the New Zealand church.
Book review: Living in Paradox
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Matthew Bradbury reviews Living in Paradox: A History of Urban Design across Kainga, Towns and Cities in New Zealand.
Book review: The Japanese House Reinvented
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The architecture of Japanese houses has developed from imported styles since prehistoric times.
Book review: Morphing
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Justine Harvey reviews Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers by Joseph Choma.
Shigeru Ban: Cardboard Cathedral
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Architecture New Zealand magazine reviews a new book about the Transitional Cathedral and its architect.
Once in a Lifetime
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Freerange Press is releasing a new book, Once in a Lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch.
Book: Our House in the City
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Joanna Bates reviews a book featuring the new breed of the “21st-century-townhouse”.
Future Park
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Amalie Wright provides an analysis of contemporary trajectories in urban park design.
Homes people can afford
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Affordable housing issues are captured in a new book recently released in Wellington.
Piet Oudolf: Landscapes In Landscapes
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A showcase of 30 years of work by landscape’s pioneer of “new wave naturalism,” Piet Oudolf.
A nature guide to alpine New Zealand
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Philip Smith reviews Above the Treeline, a book featuring the work of prominent ecologist Alan Mark.
Designed for living
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A book celebrating homes that architects dream up for themselves.
Drawing for Landscape Architecture
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A book by landscape architect Edward Hutchison on the importance of hand drawing in landscape architecture.
Kiwi Prefab: Cottage to Cutting Edge
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Stephen Olsen takes in the launch of the new book, ‘Kiwi Prefab: Cottage to Cutting Edge’
Cape to Bluff: A survey of residential architecture from Aotearoa New Zealand
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A new photo book — expected to be a collector’s item — by Simon Devitt, Luke Scott and Andrea Stevens invites us into thirty of NZ’s architectural homes.
Triumphs of change
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This book by Dr Russell Walden’s shares some of the concerns and aspirations of Rudolf Wittkower’s work.
Colour Hunting
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The book considers how we subconsciously perceive colours and how those perceptions can influence what we buy and feel.
Architecture Now 7 by Philip Jodidio
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A great tome on how to get plenty of house on to just a little bit of land.