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Did You Mean To Do That?
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Hot off the press – a collection of architectural cartoons by Malcolm Walker has just been released.
Frank Lloyd Wright Designs
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The Sketches, Plans and Drawings by Bruce Brooks Ffeiffer.
Christchurch Heritage
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A book celebrating lost buildings and streetscapes.
The Architecture of Summer
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Photographer Simon Devitt joins forces with writer Andrea Stevens to create a stunning book, Summer Houses.
Summer reading
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The best new book about lights and lamps, residential interiors with personality and a grapple with postmodernism.
Summer reading
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A wealth of landscape- and architecture-related reading material to get you over the holiday hump.
History of all things New Zealand
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A history of all things New Zealand – film, glass and wine – along with some French style for a bit of variety.
Living Architecture
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Renee Davies reviews a new book of green roof and wall case studies.
Braun/Hogenberg, Cities of the World
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Ralph Johns reviews a massive offering from Taschen:’Cities of the World’, the complete edition of colour plates from 1572-1617.
Incubation in Isolation
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Public Event, Wellington,
29 Sep 2011
A public lecture featuring Michael Smythe, who will talk about his recently released book: New Zealand By Design.
A public lecture featuring Michael Smythe, who will talk about his recently released book: New Zealand By Design.
A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
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Edited by Jonathan Olivares of Phaidon, this book features designs by some classic designers.
Auckland’s most salubrious suburbs
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Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow present a history of some of Auckland’s most salubrious suburbs.
Auckland Architecture Week
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Public Event, Auckland,
26 Sep 2011 to 1 Oct 2011
To celebrate Architecture Week a variety of activities will run over the week in a number of locations. Two key events are the Sean Godsell lecture and the Gibbs Farm Sculpture Walk, a fundraiser for Christchurch architects.
To celebrate Architecture Week a variety of activities will run over the week in a number of locations. Two key events are the Sean Godsell lecture and the Gibbs Farm Sculpture Walk, a fundraiser for Christchurch architects.
Art and Architecture
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The only meeting of art and architecture needn’t be an abstract sculpture in a building forecourt or a polite artwork on a boardroom wall.
Urban Green
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The beautiful promenades, residential gardens and open spaces of Europe’s inner cities are the subject of this German book.
Cardboard Book
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This book is a collection of projects from around the world, saluting that recognizable and disposable material – cardboard.
Maori architecture from fale to wharenui
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Garth Falconer reviews the first book dedicated to Maori architecture.