• Diverse morphology : a study of Chancery Square 

      Haley, A.; Wagner, Cesar (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 

      Budgett, Jeanette (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 

      McCulloch, N.; Patel, Yusef; Potauaine, S. (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 

      Pretty, Annabel; McPherson, Peter (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 

      Pretty, Annabel (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 

      Melchiors, Lucia; Almeida, M.S. (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 

      Schnoor, Christoph (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 

      Brown, Daniel K. (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) 

      Byrd, Hugh; Matthewman, S. (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 

      Taʻala, Ahlia-Mei (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 

      Turner, David (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 ...
    • The hand of the engraver 

      Western, R.; Brown, Daniel K. (Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)
      The manner in which we dwell leaves scars upon the landscape that are often left behind long after occupancy ceases. Many derelict landscapes across New Zealand have scars too advanced for remediation. This designled ...
    • If you copy, you will be caught and a mess will remain : the role of formal precedent in Design Studio 

      Moore, Cameron (Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)
      It has been eight years, or nearly two generations of students, since the last classical studio was run at Unitec. In the six-week vertical studio, the students got a valuable addendum to their regular design studio ...
    • Imagining a narrative form for place 

      Billing, C.; Allen, L. (ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)
      Applying long-term thinking to placemaking is challenging when practitioners work within short timeframes to deliver a project – usually from the length of a funding window to that of an on-the-ground build. In order for ...
    • Is it working? New Zealand's coastal policy statement and the Auckland Unitary Plan 

      Murphy, Chris (Unitec Institution of Technology, 2017-11-21)
      This paper uses the objectives and policies inherent in the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement 2010 as a template for benchmarking the adaptation strategies contained in the natural hazards section of the Unitary Plan ...
    • Katamari Kart: A serious and hilarious sub/urban game for more serendipitous, playful and friendly public art 

      Berthelsen, C.; Rachev, R.; Bonham, A. (ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)
      The article presents the sub/urban game-method Katamari Kart, where people roam industrial and suburban areas collecting waste materials and progressively building a large and mobile public sculpture. This game-method ...
    • A layered conservation response to the layers of built history 

      Bezuidenhout, T.; McConchie, Graeme (Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)
      RESEARCH QUESTION How can differing conservation responses and approaches maintain and enhance those layers of history within a historical building? ABSTRACT The Conservation and Heritage Research stream in Unitec’s ...
    • Le Corbusier in Paris 1915: Between past and future 

      Schnoor, Christoph (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-03-31)
      In 1910-11, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret wrote the draft of a handbook on the visual and aesthetic perception of the city. “La Construction des villes”, never published by Le Corbusier, was based on his detailed studies of ...
    • Leon Battista Alberti, mental rotation and the origins of three-dimensional computer modeling 

      Mitrovic, Branko (2015-09)
      Buildings are three-dimensional objects, but architectural communication about them occurs primarily in the two-dimensional medium of drawings. The use of drawings to communicate about buildings goes back to ancient times; ...
    • Māori architecture: A response to colonisation 

      Ratana, Maia (Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)
      For generations, Māori have disputed colonisation and the impact it has had on Indigenous peoples. As settlers acquired more land, Māori realised they were losing power over decision making in Aotearoa and began to create ...