• Script + architecture  

  Hartono, Gian F.J. (Master of Architecture (Professional), 2010)

  The objective of this Master’s thesis is to investigate the use of computer algorithms to aid the pre-conceptual stage in architectural design. The concept juggles the real world and the world of virtual design. I will be ...
• Papakainga te whau o te matauranga: Hei ronaki wa i te ao Māori ki a puawai he oranga hou hei kitenga tangata  

  Badham, Terry Marie Christopher (Master of Architecture (Professional), 2011)

  This project titled “The Garden of Knowledge” presents a holistic exploration of a sustainable contemporary Māori urban design solution. The location is the ipukarea (ancestral lands) of the hapū (sub-tribe) Ngāti Whātua ...
• How do we sustain regional architecture in the face of modern models of universal internationalist architecture?  

  Tell, Eric (Master of Architecture (Professional), 2011)

  In the course of twentieth century architecture, like most aspects of culture we have seen an increasing homogeneity between regions. In our present world that has come to accept this concept of ‘blandification’, it is ...
• Modernism : A contemporary interpretation (Revisiting one of Auckland’s Modernist housing developments)  

  Brennan, Charlotte (Master of Architecture (Professional), 2010)

  Apartment blocks built in the post-war period for state or city council housing mostly followed the architectural precepts of the Modern Movement. Large numbers of these buildings have been demolished in the last two ...
• After the rot: Improving the durability of building envelopes in domestic housing, New Zealand  

  Murphy, Chris (Design, Technology, Refurbishment and Management of Buildings: 37th IAHS World Congress on Housing Science, 2010)

  The issue of weathertightness of the external building envelope in domestic scaled timber frames continues to be an issue in New Zealand, some ten years after the results of a major cladding survey into the durability and ...

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