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Decolonising and re-indigenising neighbourhood design
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)How do we create a fairer, more equitable future? How do we create neighbourhoods that serve and nurture us; spaces that reflect us, that bring beauty, that inform our identities? Urbanists are generally reluctant to address ... -
Defining the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage: case study Lizori, Italy
(University of L'Aquila, Italy, 2019-12)The aim of this paper is to define the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage. The thematic framework of this work was stimulated by participation in a professional ... -
Density, energy and metabolism of a proposed smart city
(Anglo-American Publishers, 2017)This paper reports on a detailed analysis of the metabolism of the Island City of Mumbai should the Indian Government’s proposal for ‘smart’ cities be implemented. It focuses on the environmental impact of increased ... -
Design dialogues : ambiguity of “design” within Architectural Studio
(2017)The ambiguous nature of the word “design” offers up a complex dialectic dialogue for the architectural studio lecturers to impart to their students. Discussing the “design”, more commonly referred to as the programme or ... -
The design of the Dilworth Building
(ePress, Unitec | Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The Dilworth Building was architecture firm Gummer and Ford’s first significant building. It was completed in 1927 and sits on one of the most prominent locations in Aotearoa New Zealand, the corner of Queen Street and ... -
Designing neighbourhoods to facilitate intercultural encounters: Negotiating between self, society and place
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Globalisation, and the consequent migratory processes, have radically transformed many countries across the world. A greater number of people with diverse backgrounds have been travelling to more places for numerous reasons. ... -
Developing urban furniture by Unitec students for an emerging urban fabric in Auranga, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland: The socio-ecological dynamics of creative sustainable prototyping production during the Covid-19 crisis
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)As the number of suburban communities in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland grows, it’s essential to consider the social component when planning and developing these communities in order to improve social resilience and reduce social ... -
Dirt under our fingernails: Daylighting waste at the Dome
(enigma : he aupiki, 2022-03-29)[...] How might this “productivist bias” be countered by taking erosion, breakdown and decay as our starting points? In this article I explore this possibility with respect to a controversial proposed landfill in Dome ... -
Distributed resource centre: A soft Infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)This article presents the Distributed Resource Centre as a soft, low-cost, generative, and fun decentralised infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity. The article defines the concept (as flow vs stock), outlines some ... -
Diverse morphology : a study of Chancery Square
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)The design of the urban environment is a challenging and complex exercise. The way people experience and use public open spaces is a valuable source of information for planning our cities. Indeed, understanding how these ... -
drawing Japan
(Unitec Institution of Technology, 2018)Students from Unitec's landscape and architecture programmes visited Japan in September 2018. Architecture lecturer Jeanette Budgett and teamed up with Hikoi Garden Tours (Penny Cliffin and Ian Henderson) to offer an ... -
EDFAB : design and building of a plywood research house
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)INTRODUCTION: EDFAB: Eco-digital Fabrication Research Project was a collaboration between researchers and students from the University of Auckland’s and Unitec Institute of Technology’s Schools of Architecture. The ... -
Encountering the pedagogy of live and interactive architectural projects
(Queensland University of Technology, 2017)The use of the word “live” as a prefix for a project, is a thought-provoking, and perplexing concept; does one assume that all other projects are dead? Or is it that "(a)live," in the studio build paradigm, is about the ... -
Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Hyperreal architectural photographic assemblages proliferate within contemporary media: artists, photographers and architects envision digital worlds that operate at the intersection of hyperreal architectural renders, ... -
Entre o sonho e a realidade : a habitação social no Brasil de uma perspectiva histórica
(Faculdade de Arquitetura Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Brasil, 2015-06-28)Atualmente a temática da habitação tem sido amplamente discutida pela relevância que assume para a sociedade e, especialmente, para os países da America Latina, com significativos problemas sociais. O presente trabalho faz ... -
Ernst Plischke as teacher : Wellington (Auckland) Vienna
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)From early on in his career, Austrian-born architect Ernst Plischke (1903–1992) wished not only to be a practising architect but also to be able to pass on his knowledge as a professor. As an emigre in Wellington in the ... -
The eternal present of the mythical event : re-establishing place identity with speculative installations that reawaken heritage stories
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)This paper proposes that speculative architectural installations strategically ‘curated’ into neglected architectural contexts can help to engender an ‘immediate and a timeless realm,’ an encapsulation of a cultural story ... -
Exergy and the city : the technology and sociology of power (failure)
(Routledge Open Select, 2014-09-23)Blackouts—the total loss of electrical power—serve as a reminder of how dependent the modern world and particularly urban areas have become on electricity and the appliances it powers. To understand them we consider the ... -
The fires of ambition: Te Awa Tupua 2040
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)Upon introduction, Māori will often, ask “Ko wai koe?”, or at the beginning of a pepeha, Māori might say, “Ko wai au?” The concept of ‘ko wai au’ is both a question and a statement in one. In one sense ‘ko wai au’ is asking ... -
From terraces to Deco: "First editions’ in Auckland’s high density housing
(AGM A Division of BCI Central, 2022-02-28)Naming a designstyle is not a common practice for architects in the twenty-firstcentury. However, it is interesting to reflect on the nameable styles of housingarchitecture that emerged between 1995 and 2006, when Auckland’s ...
