Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition

TOITŪ TE WHENUA, TOITŪ TE TIKANGA, KA ORA NGĀ TOI. WHEN WE HOLD FAST TO OUR LAND AND VALUES, OUR ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE FLOURISH.

It is a great and unexpected honour to receive the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal. It places me within a whakapapa of architects whom I have always greatly admired and provides a platform from which to communicate architecture’s importance. It also prompts one to reflect on one’s own contribution to architecture. The kaupapa of this essay is to discuss my work as a journey through architecture. I only ever wanted to be an architect when I was growing up, which was an unusual ambition for a Ngāpuhi/Ngāti Kahu girl from West Auckland. My timing was appalling. I entered the University of Auckland School of Architecture in 1989, 18 months after the stock market crash, with little prospect of finding employment as an architect after graduation. But,…

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Architecture NZ (Digital) - 1 Issue, March-April 2024

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