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Building for climate change: Meeting the architectural challenges
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Peddlethorp’s Manuel Diaz identifies some of the challenges and opportunities facing architects under the New Zealand Government’s Building for Climate Change programme.
Editorial: Chris Barton on a wound upon a building
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“The architecture of suicide is not an easy topic but, for architects who might adhere to an ethical position akin to “first, do no harm”, it’s a topic that can’t be avoided.”
Opinion: Ecstasy and equity
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Karamia Müller notes: “Architecture does touch everybody. This is its ecstasy. And it is this quality that makes the debates underpinning the profession, the practices and the community of practitioners so compelling and critical.”
Opinion: On confusion
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Pip Cheshire writes about the critical place anticipation and agency have in our trade. “We spend most of our time making marks and orchestrating events with long gestations and repercussions well beyond our formal engagement.”
NZIA: “We agree: climate change is an urgent issue for architects”
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Te Kāhui Whaihanga responds to an editorial published in Architecture NZ magazine saying, “…a high level of competency in [sustainability] must be maintained by architects throughout their careers.”
Editorial: Chris Barton on a duty of care
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Architecture NZ editor Barton notes a lack of language regarding sustainability in our professional bodies’ codes. “Distressingly … there is no mention of climate change in the NZRAB’s code.”
Opinion: A planetary price to pay
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Pip Cheshire discusses the architects’ role in saving the world: “At issue, though, is whether we architects can effect any meaningful change in our bailiwick…”
Opinion: Twenty minutes in Tāmaki Makaurau
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As a sort of homage to the late architect and New Yorker Michael Sorkin and his book Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, columnist Karamia Müller muses on her 20-minute walking commute through the City of Sails.
Editorial: Chris Barton on male architects
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Please no, not Alvar Aalto. Finnish female director Virpi Suutari’s brilliant examination, Aalto, lays bare some uneasy home truths about the man lauded as an icon of modernism.
Opinion: Our moral agenda
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In her first column for Architecture NZ, Dr Karamia Müller asks: “When we celebrate the best, is it for the best?”
Opinion: We do not live by bread alone
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Pip Cheshire: “…it seems a fair assumption to me: that is, that aside from making private delights, we might also do our best on main street for the body politic”.
Editorial: Chris Barton on rebuilding Christchurch
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Barton notes, “…the government received plenty of really good advice on what to do from a variety of people, notably the ‘Share an Idea’ urban planning community-involvement exercise … which the government mostly ignored.”
Opinion: Conversations
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Lynda Simmons muses: “For me, architectural conversations are important because, quite simply, there is so much to think about and, therefore, talk about.”
Opinion: Awake awake
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Pip Cheshire muses, “…the phoenix-like re-emergence of the design press after the woes of COVID’s first assault has begot a major thirst for content.”
Editorial: Chris Barton on reversing climate change
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The Government and industry bodies are finally taking a policy stand on climate change in the built environment. Architecture NZ editor Barton explores how these compare and how they might play out.
Opinion: Keeping the Queen clean
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“The desire to return to ‘normal’ is a potent motivation but there is an awful feeling that perhaps this time we may have ‘cooked our goose’…” Pip Cheshire muses on the future of Queen St.
Opinion: Parallel education systems
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Lynda Simmons looks forward to the day when architectural students can move between Māori and Pākehā systems of learning.
Editorial: Chris Barton on post-COVID environmentalism
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The Architecture NZ editor weighs in on experts’ claims that sustainable buildings will become mainstream in a post-COVID era.
Opinion: Time for a planner-free zone
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Pip Cheshire dreams of a ‘planner-free zone’, where tradition is set aside in favour of research, analysis and innovation.
Opinion: The disappearing plan and section
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“I need to close my eyes often when looking at projects on screens, in a feeble attempt to control the visual information as the architectural object rotates,” Lynda Simmons laments.