Tag: opinion | Architecture Now

Editorial: Chris Barton on COVID-era architecture

Practice | The effects of healthy obsessions on architecture can be profound. The challenge for architects now will be creating something that also deals with fear: something inspirational and uplifting.

Opinion: Remaking our country

Practice | Pip Cheshire: “We have a choice as a profession…shall we seize the day and use this time of upheaval to speak out and be agents of change?”

Opinion: The value of print

Practice | Lynda Simmons: “Print media has always defined the way we store architectural as well as art histories, whether via books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers or personal letters.”

Editorial: Chris Barton on monuments

Practice | “If architecture is to play a part in this transformation [of problematic public monuments], it’s also necessary to build anew, rather than just demolish.”

Opinion: Uncertain times

Practice | Pip Cheshire: “It’s been a rude shock that our stock in trade, the bricks and mortar realisation of our lofty dreams, is of no value when the unseen hand of disease strikes.”

Opinion: Environmental emergencies

Practice | Lynda Simmons on addressing climate change: “Change proved to be simple: just stop. Just stop doing the thing that causes harm.”

Editorial: Chris Barton on the way forward

Practice | “Of the many insights COVID-19 brings, the realisation that our economy is built as a house of cards is one of the more sobering.”

Opinion: The education of architects

Practice | Lynda Simmons believes discussions on academia are important to remind the industry “that universities are more than technical schools producing workers for industry”.

Opinion: In consideration of users

Practice | Pip Cheshire notes, “…we architects have a duty, at the very least, to treat our building users with humanity, respect and civility.”

Editorial: Chris Barton on complacency

Practice | Architecture New Zealand editor Chris Barton muses on the creation of a ‘Museum of Head-in-the Sand Climate Change Complacency’.

Opinion: Change is difficult

Practice | Lynda Simmons speaks on solving the issue of the need for reduced-hour working weeks as a collective.

Opinion: The naked emperor

Practice | Pip Cheshire asks about the decision-making process in creating buildings and craves more than the answers given in public discourse.

Editorial: Chris Barton on giving back

Practice | Chris Barton discusses a recent declaration by one architecture firm to strive for carbon neutrality and the lack of such aims by Kiwi firms.

Opinion: The architect’s folly

Practice | Pip Cheshire asserts that architecture has nothing to do with buildings but is all about the space between them.

Opinion: The power of awards

Practice | Lynda Simmons on assessment and the highs and lows of programmes for architectural accolades.

Editorial: Chris Barton on declarations

Practice | Architecture New Zealand editor, Chris barton, comments on the recent Architects Declare movement and what climate-friendly architecture might look like.