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The (carbon) elephant in the room
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Heritage architect Joanna Theodore writes about the negative repercussions of removing the iconic Gordon Wilson Flats from the Heritage Schedule.
Freedom for the hollow lands
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Karamia Müller considers the ‘architecture’ of land occupation and the ideological differences that reveal the politics of sovereignty.
It’s time to change the way we charge for architecture
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Data continues to show architects and designers earn less than professionals in other industries - rethinking how we charge for architecture can reverse this trend.
Is the system working?
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Karamia Müller looks beyond the “electoral moment” to the built realm and asks whether or not the system is working.
What water?
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Karamia Müller considers the politics of the built realm and uses a clever analogy asking “How’s the water?” to address the impact of social conditioning on how we view the housing crisis.
The good, the bad and the ugly
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Pip Cheshire advocates for greater diversity and inclusivity in the design and planning of architecture in New Zealand’s cities.
Musings from a masterplanner
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Anthony Vile, Urban Design Lead at Context Architects, believes urban design in Aotearoa is at a turning point and current government policy up for consultation could point the way forward.
House talk
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Pip Cheshire has a quiet conversation with his house.
That’s it, I’m architecture shaming
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Patrick Sherwood, writes on the rise of architectural parody forums on social media, where flippant critiques of ‘bad architecture’ might help inform the wider discourse.
In favour of spiders
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Pip Cheshire considers the new and profound challenges presented by recent climate change and how best to deal with them.
The line between good and bad
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Karamia Müller believes that if beauty in architecture is attainable then so, too, should be equity.
The bots are here
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Karamia Müller considers artificial intelligence, its relationship to creativity, and the ethics surrounding its application in the course of architectural study and/or practice.
Guy Marriage on building for climate change
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The houses that survived the Esk floods this time also survived the Esk floods last time, for the same reasons — siting the house on a rise, not on the valley floor, Guy Marriage writes.
Building a profile
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Patrick Sherwood writes on the influence of slick marketing on the architecture industry.
Revisiting the Aaltos
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Pete Bossley tours Finnish architecture and design, using drawing as thinking to uncover its power.
A touch of the architecture
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Karamia Müller considers the role of her profession in imagining a better future for Aotearoa.
Do not go gentle…
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Pip Cheshire believes the architecture profession can sometimes be complicit in the suppression of dreams.
Oh God, I hate this
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Chris Barton considers King Charles III’s influence on architecture to date and finds it’s not all bad.
David Trubridge on colonialism, capitalism and how to think like a tree
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World-renowned designer David Trubridge believes we must decolonise our mindset and indigenise architecture, learning to think more like trees and design like nature.
Plan and section
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Pip Cheshire finds the world of creative endeavour is one sometimes beset with angst, false starts, revisions and abandoned variations.