Tag: Politics
RSS
Politics of place in an election year
People
|
Karamia Müller considers how in an election year, it’s easy to retreat into polarising binaries — left versus right, protest versus order, local versus global — yet our spatial lives and architectural issues defy such tidy polarities.
Burn the house down
People
|
Editor of Architecture NZ Chris Barton discusses a bonkers idea about ownership of New Zealand’s social housing assets.
Secede Auckland!
People
|
Opinion: Pip Cheshire considers the potential of an independent Auckland to improve urban planning efficiency, taking its cue from city-states such as Singapore.
The state of our cities discussed at SOAC
Review
|
Held in New Zealand for the first time, this State of Australasian Cities Conference (SOAC) was its biggest in 20 years, delivering 250 research papers over three days.
David Trubridge on colonialism, capitalism and how to think like a tree
Review
|
World-renowned designer David Trubridge believes we must decolonise our mindset and indigenise architecture, learning to think more like trees and design like nature.