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dc.contributor.authorAustin, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-31T02:03:19Z
dc.date.available2016-03-31T02:03:19Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/3292
dc.description.abstractThe history of architecture revolves around the notion of closure. It is concerned with shelter, protection and differentiation. A history of openness in architecture has yet to be written. It does not see origins in the forest or the primitive hut but instead in the ocean and the boat. Open architecture is not concerned with closed rooms courtyards or squares. It is instead about platforms, decks, terraces, and beaches Hodges, the artist on Cook’s first voyage, was confounded by the aesthetic appeal of Pacific and Asian architecture which couldn’t be explained by reference to the architectural canon of ancient Greece. Oceanic societies lived in a way that contradicted traditional European architecture. This architecture of the new world introduced the notion of the open and provoked the introduction of the modern. The skyscraper, the suburb, the freeway are New World examples of open architecture. The negatives of openness are well known; the boredom of suburbs the waste of the freeway and the banality of the skyscraper city. Nevertheless the outcomes are sometimes sublime. The architecture of openness endlessly strives for porosity, connection, or view, rather than enclosure, shelter, or containment. The positive story to be written is about the achievement of openness as a way of examining the architecture of the Pacific Islands.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.asao.org/en_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectopen architectureen_NZ
dc.subjectopenessen_NZ
dc.subjectpermeabilityen_NZ
dc.subjectOceaniaen_NZ
dc.subjectfaleen_NZ
dc.subjectPasifika Islandsen_NZ
dc.subjectSamoan architectureen_NZ
dc.titleOpen architectureen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution - Oral Presentationen_NZ
dc.rights.holderAuthoren_NZ
dc.subject.marsden120103 Architectural History and Theoryen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAustin, M.R. (2015, February). Open architecture. Paper presented at Pacific Spaces: Annual Conference of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.en_NZ
unitec.institutionUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.publication.spage1en_NZ
unitec.publication.lpage15en_NZ
unitec.conference.titlePacific Spaces: Annual Conference of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceaniaen_NZ
unitec.conference.orgAssociation for Social Anthropology in Oceaniaen_NZ
unitec.conference.locationSanta Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.en_NZ
unitec.conference.sdate2015-02
unitec.conference.edate2015-02
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms58881en_NZ
dc.subject.tukutukuWharemi_NZ
dc.subject.tukutukuMaraemi_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaArchitecture


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