Tag: Practice | Architecture Now

Long hours: Go hard or go home!

Practice | Lee Hillam reflects on the long-hours culture in architecture and asks: What is the real cost of this exploitative practice?

Architects amidst conflict

Practice | Thomas Denhardt examines Lebanon’s conflict-filled history and asks, “What is the architect’s role during war and conflict?”

Architecture of the Pacific

Practice | The first in an ongoing series by Bill McKay and Jason Mann on the long-neglected architecture of the South Pacific.

NZIA board co-opts Māori architectural graduate

NZIA board co-opts Māori arch graduate

News | Elisapeta Heta, an architectural graduate at Jasmax, has been co-opted as the Ngā Aho representative to the NZIA board.

Quake city

Practice | Guy Marriage investigates the effects of the recent 7.8-magnitude Kaikoura earthquake on Wellington’s city buildings.

Managing mental health

Practice | New research discusses how the architectural profession might better support its members through periods of mental illness.

Diversity = creativity

Practice | Lynne Elvins discusses the lack of diversity in top design roles – and how we can close the gender and diversity gaps.

Not just a high-wire act

Practice | A look at recent changes to the Health and Safety at Work Act, and how architects can avoid running into problems.

Limiting disputation

Practice | Architects increasingly need to be more savvy when it comes to preventing and resolving disagreements.

Water for wellbeing

Practice | A report on solving design challenges for health through the presence of water.

Future Thinking III: Make/Use and open source design

Future Thinking III: open source design

Practice | For the third in the Future Thinking series, Sarosh Mulla reports on Make/Use, a user-focused zero-waste fashion project.

Biophilic design in the workplace

Practice | Partner Content: An Interface research study on the relationship between psychological well-being, work environments and employee expectations.

Man of steel

Practice | Progressive Building talks to Steel Construction NZ manager Alistair Fussell about the state of the steel industry.

Igniting a sense of startup culture

Practice | Partner Content: A Steelcase paper on reconnecting with the startup mindset without getting weighed down by the sheer scale of a large enterprise.