raising the issues of good design in our built environment since 1946
An association of architects, planners, urbanists and the those who believe how our cities are crafted has a material impact on our quality of life.
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The Collection
- The Architectural Centre has an archival collection, held at the Alexander Turnbull Library
- The Centre published The Design Review from 1948 to 1954. Editions have been digitised by the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection ~ Te Pūkikotuhi o Aotearoa, hosted by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
- Looking for the Local : Architecture and the New Zealand Modern by Justine Clark and Paul Walker (Victoria University Press, 2000) made available many Centre photographs of Modern Architecture.
- Vertical Living : The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington, by Julia Gatley and Paul Walker, is a history of the Centre (Auckland University Press, 2014).
… people who believe that good and decent living in our modem world must be consciously planned for; that good planning means good design, in large things and in small; that good design rests ultimately on need and purpose.
(c.1950, publication documenting the building project of the same name).