‘Kiwi Prefab’ Workshop: Prefabricated Housing in New Zealand
for more details, refer to http://architecture.org.nz/2010/01/18/kiwi-prefab-workshop/
Thursday 25 February 2010
School of Architecture and Design
Victoria University of Wellington
139 Vivian Street, Wellington
Please RSVP by February 1st 2010
Pamela Bell
pam_bell at xtra.co.nz

Thursday 25 February 2010, 12.30pm
Adam Auditorium, City Gallery

An illustrated lecture on the WCC social housing blocks in Wellington currently undergoing a major upgrade. These 13 blocks were part of a larger urban renewal project beginning in the 1960s, in which the
Architectural Centre and many of Bill Toomath’s contemporaries were significantly involved. Art historian Ann McEwan has been engaged in the heritage assessment of these buildings, and will provide a 40minute pictorial talk on their historical background, the details of the current project, and the way present-day social housing agenda still resonates with Toomath and his contemporaries’ social and moral agenda for architecture.

This event is NZIA accredited, 10 points