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You can never tell how a role will work out until you’ve filled it. I had an idea of what being President of the Institute might entail, and about the concerns I’d like to address, but looking back over the past two years I realise there hasn’t been a lot of time for discretionary activity. Much of the work of a President is a continuation of work started or progressed by predecessors in the office – new issues arrive to challenge Architects and the Institute, but the old issues never seem to completely go away. And then, of course, there’s the reactive aspect of the role. Circumstances can suddenly change. Christchurch has had a big impact on the Institute – mainly, of course, on our Canterbury members – over the last 18 months.
One discussion the Institute has promoted, including at the 2011 CPD Days, is that around the ‘Architect of the Future’. We’re not alone in having this discussion: the RIBA, for example, published a report on the subject last year. Perhaps the issue could be cast as, Does the architect have a future? I don’t think this question is prompted by pessimism, but by an awareness of how fast the world we work in is changing. In response, the Institute has adopted what could be seen as a future-proofing measure: changing its rules to open its ranks to “allied professional members”. This category includes people, such as urban designers or project managers, who have architectural qualifications but who do not work in architectural practice and who are unlikely ever to seek registration. There’s a lot to be gained, for everyone, in having pro
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May 2012
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New Zealand Architecture’s Top 20
The 2012 New Zealand Architecture Awards were recently announced. Here they are.
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2012 NZIA conference
This year's conference was held at Auckland's new Wynyard Quarter. The speakers were good, the attendees were numerous, the weather was fine, and no one was lost in the harbour.
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The UIA World Congress
As a long-time member of the UIA, the NZIA participates in the international organisation’s triennial conferences. NZIA President Patrick Clifford was at the latest one, and reports on the event.
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Hidden gems deserve public outing
It was a long way from Berlin to New Zealand in the Nazi years, but some refugees made it and so, miraculously, did some of their possessions. John Walsh talked to Antony Blaschke about the art his family collected in Germany between the wars.
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Taira Nishizawa in New Zealand
The guest lecture programme at the University of Auckland’s Architecture School is one of the great beneficiaries of Andrew Barrie’s time in Japan. Next up at the School, Andrew reports, is Taira Nishizawa.
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In brief
Fearon Hay get religion, DCM to design Oz pavilion in Venice, Dave Strachan endures a tabloid moment, and Gold Medal interviews now online.
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Book review
Did You Mean To Do That? Well, yes - New Zealand's leading (as in only)architectural cartoonist, Malcolm Walker, finally has a book dedicated to his work. Pip Cheshire reviews 25 year's worth of acute and amusing graphic commentary.
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More publishing news
Print's not dead: recent books include a warning from New Zealand architecture's Savonarola, a record of the 2012 NZIA Graphisoft Student Design Award and a guide to the architecture of inner Auckland.
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From the desk of John Albert
The NZIA’s Professional Services Manager has been busy, as usual, on several fronts; he reports on some of his engagements.
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NZIA APL Graduate Development Programme (GDP) 2012
The NZIA’s Justine Francis salutes the outgoing GDP workshop presenters, introduces the incoming team, and outlines upcoming events.
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Diary Dates
Dinner and movies, Practice Series and the AGM, a Tory visits, timber talk, Wellington Homex.
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BIM is the word
Rolf Huber, Chief Executive of Masterspec, says it’s time this country got serious about BIM.
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An interview with Justine Harvey
Justine Harvey, the (relatively) new editor of Architecture NZ, has a few issues under her belt now, so it seemed a good time to ask her about her past, her plans for the magazine, and her views on New Zealand architecture.
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