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3 March 2021
Anthony Hoete
New Zealand turns Māori tradition inside out with Toto Whare, an internalised home made affordable by ‘rigorous shopping’
The plywood pavilion opens to both sky and harbour. Credit: Patrick Reynolds
A recently returned ex-pat, I found myself at the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Awards in the somewhat paradoxical position of acting as an international juror while being ‘indigenous’. Studying architecture in the late 80s, the concept of ‘Māori architecture’ would itself have been a paradox. The Auckland school’s pedagogies at the time were resolutely colonial and aligned to Europe such that the architecture of the South Pacific was never accorded a comprehensive scholarly gaze. So was with some intrigue that I noted a shortlisted project in the housing category named: Toto Whare.
Architecture student s Hawke s Bay church project wins award
15 Dec, 2020 11:00 PM
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Abby-Jane Taylor presented the project at the NZIA 2020 Student Design Awards, where she won a highly commended award. Photo / Supplied
A Hawke s Bay-born woman s architecture project theoretically disassembling and reassembling a Pukehou church has won an award at the New Zealand Institute of Architecture 2020 Student Design Awards For her final-year thesis project, University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning student Abby-Jane Taylor, who is originally from Waipukurau, chose to focus on a local church in Pukehou.
Taylor had originally planned to do her project on a building in Auckland, but when the Covid-19 lockdown hit, she found herself back in Hawke s Bay staying in Pukehou.