Author: kate_linzey

  • Open Whanganui

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    In (unofficial) conjunction with Here’s Open Home Whanganui event – September 28 – the Center will be opening a few more doors for Centre members. The Here programme will visit the Dog Box (2013 – Ben Mitchell-Anyon, Sally Ogle, Caro Robertson and Tim Gittos)… … and the Payne House (1960s, Michael Payne). The Here event…

  • Pūheke : City to Sea

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    As you may be aware Council members were briefed on Te Ngākau Civic Square Precinct Development Plan, created by Pōneke Collective with Council officers, on September 4. The council will receive further briefings on per-site proposals in July next year. The Town Hall, Te Matapihi Central Library, and the Civic Administration Building (CAB) and Municipal…

  • ‘OVERLOOKING SOCIAL CONTENT IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: IN WHOSE INTEREST?’

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    Dr Peter ParkesDesign Architect and Cultural Theorist/Critic Coloqium 25 November 1992 School of Architecture Victoria University of Welington Link to the full paper here. There are many signs in contemporary architectural thinking to suggest that social commitment in design is on the way out. Many architects, commentators and teachers in mainstream architecture seem to be…

  • Public talk : Patrick Reynolds

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    The Centre is very pleased to bring Patrick Reynolds to Te Whanganui-a-Tara to talk about his work as an urbanist in Tāmaki Makaurau. Wednesday June 12, 6pm @ the School of Architecture.

  • Returning to housing

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    The Architectural Centre began with the problem of housing, and the questions of how best to build, who and how it should be made and where, have not gone away. The current Centre wants to drive the debate and demonstrate what is possible.