Tag: Resene Practice in Profile
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Connecting land, people and culture
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In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, Ralph Johns reflects on ten years of architecture and the ongoing evolution of the Isthmus studio.
‘Oh Vienna’ Where do we live tomorrow?
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Architecture Workshop’s Christopher Kelly examines Vienna’s ‘affordability of everyday life’ and recommends an amalgam of solutions to New Zealand’s housing crisis.
Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition
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This year’s Te Kāhui Whaihanga Gold Medallist, Deidre Brown, discusses her journey through architecture as she follows the evolution of Māori and Pacific design.
Simple and pure
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HMOA’s founding directors consider the evolution of the practice over the past 26 years and the importance of relationships, resilience and respect.
The evolution of Matter
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Matter Architects’ founder Jonathan Smith looks back at 10 years of the practice and considers the importance of magic, making a moment and movie quotes.
Silly analogies from a serious practice
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Sarosh Mulla explores the humour in Pac Studio’s practice both to provoke and to uncover thinking about the underlying complexities of architecture while also making it accessible and fun.
Form follows narrative
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Sheppard & Rout’s directors Jasper van der Lingen, Tim Dagg, Steven Orr, Matt Gutsell and Joff Kennedy reflect on the practice’s enduring vision.
Design for decolonisation
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Richard Francis-Jones considers the ways in which the industry can undo colonial architecture’s symbols and institutional instruments of oppression.
Genius loci
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2022 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medallists Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson reflect on 20 years of practice.
The beauty is in the detail
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The beauty is in the detail – Maggie Carroll and Jessica Barter discuss their journey since launching Bureaux.
Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Becoming great ancestors
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TOA Architects’ founder Nicholas Dalton has a vision that, by 2040, all its architects will be fluent in te reo Māori and other firms will overhaul their policies to honour te Tiriti.
Exploring and enriching the void
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Boffa Miskell partners Rachel de Lambert and Michael Hawes reflect on the ways in which the multi-disciplinary design practice enables people and nature to connect.
Shaping our collective Pacific future
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Three good friends formed an architecture practice in 1992. Evžen Novák reflects on how the studio has become a cooperative enterprise in which multiple design approaches have flourished.
State house sustainability
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Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities General Manager Patrick Dougherty explains the recent evolution in public housing and his hopes that it will catalyse change in the residential sector.
Inspiration by incident
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Patrick Clifford reflects on what comprises the Architectus design process. He finds a heady mix of methods: from sociograms to serendipity, iterations, words generating spatial arrangements, co-design, collaboration, questioning the extent of the site and asking “why not?” to the primacy of the pin-up, to name a few.
Instagrammable moments
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Scott Compton discusses changing workplace design in the age of Covid, the rise of the distributed campus model and creating magnetic, experiential workspaces for empowered employees.
Passive, active and simple
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Ferdinand Oswald explores three research pathways to sustainable housing design and how they might fit in with the Aotearoa climate.
Six storey love song
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Matthew Paetz grapples with new density controls in the National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020, perhaps the most significant government policy for cities in Aotearoa New Zealand of the past 30 years.
Transcolonisation: 1990–2020
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Anthony Hoete traces 30 years of the slow road to Te Ao Māori architecture in Aotearoa and the quest to reconcile colonial traditions and European influences with a sustained interest in the indigenous project.