09 2018

MArch(Prof) Thesis Research Units

Coordinators: Jeremy
Treadwell
j.treadwell@auckland.ac.nz

Farzaneh Haghighi
f.haghighi@auckland.ac.nz
 research unit: 0901
supervision type: studio group
research stream: materials and fabrication

Staff: Andrew Barrie (a.barrie@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Contemporary Japanese architecture
Contemporary practice and design
Design as research
Architectural representation

Laboratory theme:
Materials and fabrication

I supervise projects that involve the research, design and construction

of repetitive timber structures. Working within a wider conceptual
framework, in recent years these theses have resulted in projects that
serve the communities of Onehunga Primary School and Henderson
High School. Thesis students will use the Schools CNC equipment and
workshops, and will work alongside March(Prof)1 students from the
Timber Tech class to prototype and construct their structures.

Authors own
 research unit: 0902
supervision type: independent
research stream: sustainable design

Staff: Paola Boarin (p.boarin@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Climate-sensitive design
Design strategies for high performance buildings
towards nearly-Zero Energy Building (nZEB) standards
Energy retrofit of existing buildings
Sustainable adaptive reuse of heritage buildings

I am particularly interested in how the climate informs Architecture and

how Architectural Technology can be an effective and integrated tool
within the design process, for new, existing and heritage buildings.
Architecture has the aptitude of responding to the rapidly changing
social, ecological and technological conditions. Taking into account
social aspects, architecture has always been the manifestation of a
culture, but it is also the manifestation of specific needs of different
geographic and climactic contexts. Within this scenario, Architectural
Technology is the means through which a culture can find an expression
and the building can control its relationship with the environment (in
a dual approach, i.e. how the building responds to the environmental
factors and how the building influences the environment). Thus,
Architecture represents the constructive link between the abstract
and the physical.

If this method seems easier to be used for designing new buildings, for
heritage buildings we need to work more carefully in order to preserve
their cultural identity, to the benefit of the future generations. To this
regard, my approach is not to work on the building, but to work with the
building, where the pre-existence must concede (and not be subjected
to) an opening towards the contemporary design language, in order to
overcome an objective condition of functional obsolescence caused by
societal, economic and environmental changes.
Herzog & de Meuron, 2001-2008, Adaptive reuse of a 1899 former power station for the CaixaForum project, Madrid
 research unit: 0903
supervision type: laboratory
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Deidre Brown (deidre.brown@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Maori and Pacific architecture
Cultural landscapes
Indigenous architecture

Laboratory theme:
Architecture in the Cultural Landscape

This research theme supports exploration of the cultural landscape

as a means to generate architecture that responds to land/water
forms, stories, societies and the inhabitation of sites. It encourages
the development of brave and innovative ideas, and is sympathetic
to propositions at any appropriate scale, from small but important
interventions to large-scale and highly-expressive schemes. I have
expertise in Maori and Pacific architecture and supervision experience
in the architecture of other non- Western cultures. Research through
literature investigation, interview, and making using a variety of media
is the preferred methodological approach. Regular group meetings
take place on campus and (where practicable) at student sites, in
addition to weekly to fortnightly individual supervisory meetings.

Amber Ruckes, MArch(Prof), 2013

 research unit: 0904
supervision type: laboratory
research stream: materials and fabrication

Staff: Mike Davis (m.davis@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Fabrication
Material systems
Evolving practices
Live projets as vehicles to articulate and pursue the
research

Laboratory theme:
Fabrications Proven truths and credible myths

This thesis unit invites speculation as to the future of the architectural

discipline in island economies. On one hand it asks for a discussion of
current and future materials and fabrication processes. On the other
it asks for a discussion of the practice of architecture (collective and
individual).

The unit encourages architectural design researchers to assume a range

differing guises from the public intellectual-maker-entrepreneur in
an investigation of niche practices unfolding in relation to contextually
determined operational constraints.

In manner of Downton, Van Schaik, Fraser and others, design research

will be conducted through made and written modes of reflective
practice. It demands attention be given to the full range of concerns
embedded within the proposition that will evolve from the theoretical
to the resolution of material junctions.

Example references:
Public Intellectual: Peggy Deamer The Architect as Worker
Maker: Makers of Architecture / Fabricators of Architecture
Entrepreneur: SHoP Architects Out of Practice

Authors own
research unit: 0905
supervision type: laboratory
research stream: sustainable design

Staff: Emilio Garcia (e.garcia@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Resilience
Complexity
Diversity
Sustainable urbanism and architecture

Laboratory theme:
Resilience in Urbanism and Architecture

The understanding of resilience is important for urban designers and

architects because it can provide information about the adaptive
capacity of complex systems to deal with and take benefits from
unpredictable changes while keeping on evolving. But how can
we investigate and produce design responses that acknowledge
resilience strategies? The aim of this LAB is to analyse cities as
complex adaptive systems, where adaptations, transformations,
persistence, resistance and collapse are key dynamics of change
linked with resilience strategies. The analysis of transformative
change happening at discrete scales, from regions to rooms; from
environmental hazards to everyday life; from extraordinary crisis to
ordinary events; they are all subjects of interest of this LAB.
 research unit: 0906
supervision type: individual
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Farzaneh Haghighi (f.haghighi@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Architecture and Politics
Architecture and Poststructuralist Philosophy
Intersection of Urban Space and Event
Iranian Modern Architecture and Urbanism
Architecture of the Act of Trade

As a researcher, Farzanehs work is concerned with the intersection

of political philosophy, architecture and urbanism. Her research
seeks new avenues to enrich our creative analysis of complex built
environments through investigating the implications of critical and
cultural theory for architectural knowledge. Within such body of
research, she extends her passion for the political role of architecture
into her teaching and research.

Following what French Philosopher Michel Foucault would call

problematisation, Farzaneh is interested in the projects that question
the habitual ways we understand architecture. In particular, she seeks
to examine key Foucauldian concepts such as Event, Madness,
Illness, Crime, Subjectivity, Heterotopia, Outside and Norm in
architecture.

Dr Farzaneh Haghighi is a lecturer in Architecture (Theory and

Criticism), at the School of Architecture and Planning, the University
of Auckland. She holds a PhD in Architecture from The University of
Sydney (Australia, 2015), MArch from Shahid Beheshti University
(Iran, 2008) and BArch from Yazd University (Iran, 2005). She has
contributed to the architectural departments at the University of
Sydney (USYD), the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and
the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the areas of Design
Studios and History/Theory.

Authors own, photograph and collage

research unit: 0907
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Ross Jenner (r.jenner@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Architectural History and Theory
Architectural Design
Modern Italian Architecture 1909-59
Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
Theories of Making, Technology and the Body
Cross cultural interaction, particularly in the Pacific

My M.Arch supervision topics since theses began three years ago are
wildly diverse, they include: Hospitals in Localities, The Architecture
of Death, Cinematic Promenade; Uncanny Encounters in the City,
Sensing Space, Viewing Atmosphere; The Survival of Urban Culture
through Architecture and Urban Design in the contemporary Chinese
city; Vitruvius vestigium, Architecture in Movement, Total Immersion:
A study of baths.

My philosophy is that if you are undertaking postgraduate research, the

topic must to come from YOU. Forget a truly credible mark if it happens
any other way. It is not the job of the supervisor to act as maestro in
any master-apprentice system, nor to feed topics to those who can
neither design nor think, nor to use you as a pawn in promoting my
own research. In any real academic set up, the true supervisor will be
merely the mid-wife to your thought and design. If otherwise, complain!
Above all question and, please, do try to start with a good research
question.
 research unit: 0908
supervision type: independent
research stream: expanded field

Staff: Marian Macken (m.macken@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Histories and theories of spatial representation
Temporality and spatial practice
Architecture and the book
Inter-disciplinarity and the design process

Architecture is interstitial, its porous boundary allows for interactions

with fields beyond itself. Architecture has a history of enrichment
through alignments with, and readings of, interrelated creative
disciplines. By focusing on representation, and its inherent
contingency, the act of translation and transformation inherent within
the design process, in its interdiscipliarity, is highlighted. Additionally,
I am interested in how time is expressed in, about and through the
medium of spatial practice as idea, object and process and
representations role of critical enquiry. I am particularly interested
in working with students undertaking a practice-based process.

Katie Lewis, 201 Days, 2007. Daniel Rosenburg and Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), 213.
 research unit: 0909
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Bill McKay (b.mckay@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Maori and Pacific architecture
New Zealand architecture
Architectural history and housing

I am particularly focused on Maori and Pacific architecture but also

interested in New Zealand architecture and design generally, both
historical and contemporary, especially relative to Auckland and
its context. More generally, social and cultural issues as well as
construction and tectonics are also interests of mine. And since I work
as an architectural critic, I am also involved in discussions about writing
and criticism, debates about how we see and represent architecture,
and the ways in which we measure a buildings success.

Waitomo Caves Visitor Centre, Architecture Workshop

 research unit: 0910
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Michael Milojevic (m.milojevic@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Architecture and History Context: Regeneration and
Adaptive Reuse
Architecture and Places of Study: Assembly, Artifacts,
Tourism
Architecture and Landscape: The Ground and
Underground
Architecture and Domesticity: the House and Housing

Holly Xie: Tea Tower I Archive of the Forgotten, Deception Island, Antarctic 2013
 research unit: 0911
supervision type: laboratory
research stream: expanded field

Staff: Sarosh Mulla (Sarosh@p-a-c.nz)

Research fields:
The expanded role of the architect in society
Implementation of design research in professional practice
Fabrication technologies for novel procurement paths
Architectural model making as design research
Architecture & tourism

Laboratory theme:
Redefining the role of the architect through design research.

Authors own, 2015, Unpublished

 research unit:
supervision type:
0912
research stream:

Staff: Aaron Paterson (aaron.paterson@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:

Laboratory theme:

Authors own,
 research unit: 0913
supervision type: laboratory
research stream: materials and fabrication

Staff: Assoc. Prof. Uwe Rieger & Yinan Liu

Laboratory theme:
Tangible Data and Programmable Matter
Make your thesis part of the investigations at the Lab for Digital Spatial
Operations. The arc/sec Lab investigates into the design of a time based
dimension for architectural space. We develop Immersive Realities to explore
concepts for a new condition of buildings and urban scenarios, in which digital
information will be given physical form and physical spatial appearance.

Our approach the next step beyond 2D graphical presentation and 3D digital
fabrication, where data operates with tangible properties in correspondence
with the multimodal human senses and skills evolved through interaction with
the physical world.

MIT Media Lab summarizes the idea behind Tangible Data and Programmable
Matter in the vision to seamlessly couple the dual world of bits with the world of
atoms. Within this context the arc/sec lab has its specific focus on the design
of real time architectural space. We utilize large-scale interactive installations
as the driving vehicle for the exploration and communication of our ideas.

Investigations at arc/sec Lab follow a coordinated approach. Your thesis

can be developed in a team or as an individual project. It can be practical or
theoretical. We are working in an interdisciplinary environment, which includes
collaborations with OML, Dance, Sonic Arts, Engineering, and others. The
research topics are interrelated and supported by the arc/sec thesis group.
Together we are aiming for a public event and/or an exhibition as a final
presentation format.

Investigative areas for thesis projects include:

- sensitive data skins
- materialized / localized sound
- interactive digital materials
- navigation space-stories
- human body functions and space
- digital wall papers

SINGULARITY is a thesis performance designed and programmed by Yinan Liu and Ying Miao in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Carol Please contact us to find out more about available topics or if you want to
Brown [chorography], Jrome Soudan [composition], Russell Scoones [sound design], Zahra Killeen-Chance [dance] , Adam Naughton discuss an idea of your own.
[dance], Solomon Holly-Massey [dance] at Q-theatre 2.Nov.2016.
Picture by Carol Brown, dancer Adam Naughton
 research unit: 0914
supervision type: independent
research stream: materials and fabrication

Staff: Jeremy Treadwell (j.treadwell@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Tectonics in architecture and design
Maori and Pacific Architecture
Landscape design and culture

My research emphasis is in tectonics - the compositional language of

building as inflected by culture, technology and landscape. My research
field is located primarily within this Pacific region with particular
interests in Maori and Pacific design, landscape, and contemporary
architecture.

My design methodologies emphasise iterative modelling and material

investigations.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

 research unit: 0915
supervision type: laboratory
research stream: expanded field + urban design

Staff: Kathy Waghorn (k.waghorn@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Design for the city I public realm through attendance to
temporal aspects and local knowledge
Performativity of the city
Critical spatial practices and inter-disciplinarity
Critical engagement with architectural media

I propose that design for the city might proceed through attendance to
the temporal, intimate and specific aspects of the public realm. I am
fascinated by the delicate self-organising nature of places and the local
knowledge embedded within them. Through seeking connections and
openings to amplify, intensify or concentrate the experience, reception
and representation of places I cultivate a practice that avoids the
abstraction and distance of top-down planning, while still operating
strategically, generating platforms to imagine, prompt and leverage
desires for the public realm. This manner of practice acts critically with
regard to normative disciplinary architectural and urban planning bodies
of knowledge. It requires thinking and acting differently, responding to
the complexity of new situations while opening spaces for performative
exchanges of knowledge.

Authors own
 research unit: 0916
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Chris Barton (chris@barton.co.nz)

Research fields:
Architecture and media
Architectural criticism
Writing in architectural practice
Architectural theory

Im focused on how writing infiltrates facets of architecture - from its

design conception, to its means of production, representation and ap-
praisal. I interpret the notion of architectural texts widely to include
manifestos, design reports, journalism and novels, as well as video,
film, photography and online converged media. As an architectural
critic (Metro magazine) Im fascinated by the ways architects commu-
nicate what they do - their tactics of persuasion, rhetoric, promotion
and influence. As a freelance journalist with 28 years experience in
newspapers and magazines and a trained architect (MArch, Auckland
School of Architecture, 1985), my regular watch is on the interplay of
architecture and media. I see the city as providing a rich, site-specific
opportunity for architecture and media research. My investigative em-
phasis is on the role of the mass media in the production of modern
architecture, varieties of architectural discourse, and the value of writ-
ing in architectural practice. As well as thesis supervision, my part-time
teaching at the school includes the seminar course Building the Case
(ArchGen 712), design report and thesis writing workshops and, in col-
laboration with practising architects, AD1 and AD2 studio.

Authors own
 research unit: 0917
supervision type: independent

research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Martin Axe (Martin.Axe@sla-group.com)

Research fields:
Ghosts from the future Architecture / History / Memory
The intersection and overlap of Architecture, literature, and film
Setting / Set / Prop
Tactical agency

My interest focuses on how architecture, history and memory meld to

synthesize a spatial and experiential construct?
In our referential milieu, is the disingenuous the new sincerity?
Where and how do we touch the picture plane?
Where do we now dwell; the dream, the waking moment, or in the hard
light of day
the mirage?

We spend our life trying to bring together in the same instant

A ray of sunshine and a free bench

Samuel Beckett

Calder's Circus by Alexander Calder 1926-1931

 research unit: 0918
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Lynda Simmons (reiti.simmons@gmail.com)

Research fields:
Drawing-led research and design
Historical, cultural and socio-political aspects of
architecture

My field of interest is in the social, political and cultural histories of

architecture, so that architecture is understood in relation to other
events and issues concurrent at the time of its production, rather than
as pure object. Personal research focus is on the typically non-
visible areas of New Zealand architectural history, such as gender
and Pacific Spatial concepts. A primary focus is on the analysis
and development of the students own drawing methods, using the
information within drawings to move between design decisions and
research.

Raukura Turei (2011 M Arch (Prof) thesis) and Bih Shya Law (2007 Design 10)
research unit: 0919
supervision type: independent
research stream:

Staff: Gregor Hoheisel (gregor@graftlab.com )

Research fields:
Grafting in Architecture and Design. The principle of
distinct ambiguity and multiple readings.
Cross Culture Designs.
Architecture and Urbanism under Contemporary Chinese
Conditions.
Sustainability
Architectural Entrepreneurship / Architectural Activism.

Until recently I have been Founding Partner in the international

operating company Graft. Four German architects initiated Graft in Los
Angeles 1999. From 2002 to 2014 I lived and worked in Beijing before
I moved to New Zealand. At one point we had 16 nationalities amongst
a staff of 25 in our Beijing office. Therefore Cross Culture Design is not
just a research topic, but standard practice in Graft and my personal
life. Grafting of various references to achieve distinct ambiguous
designs, which allow multiple readings, is the design aim of Graft.

A particular concern of mine is Architectural Activism; following the

Graft slogan: Dream - Design - Deliver, where the client eventually
becomes part of the delivery process, rather than being the initiator of a
project. Grafts Solar Kiosk, a prefab business unit for underprivileged
off-grid areas of the world, is an example of this endeavour into socially
motivated entrepreneurship.

Based on this array of personal experiences and interests, I feel

confident to assist thesis students in the exploration of their individual
architectural desires.
 research unit: 0920
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Craig Moller (craig@mollerarchitects.com)

Research fields:
Architectural Representation & Design
Precedents in architecture
Typology in architecture
Theory based design
The Iconic and the Fabric

I am interested in the place of contemporary architecture and its

relationship to history whether that be through the use of precedent in
design or the study of typology in architecture. Equally I am interested
in the city and the makeup of its building through the notion of the
Iconic as an important place within the city and how it relates to the
Fabric of the city. Architecture and Architects are often required on to
design both the iconic and the fabric.

The Brothers: Elin Hoyland: 2011

 research unit: 0921
supervision type: independent
research stream: expanded field

Staff: Emma Morris (archhillstudio@gmail.com)

Research fields:
Material computing
Post-Digital craft
Ecology & systems science
Art and science collaborations
Computational strategies

How can technology be a means to reveal the invisible, be it the macro-

scale of Timothy Mortons Hyperobjects to the microscopic craft of
nature? Can technology transform our perception of ourselves and the
world, and reveal paths for the evolution of new life processes?

Individuals are expected to research an inquiry that is of interest to

them. These ideas we will incubate as digital cultures, which will feed
off the complexities of the ecological, political, social, economic and
cultural.

We will use an experimental to propositional method, developing the

design practice through digital and analogue hybrids. A computational
strategy will be challenged to absorb and control a time-based field of
parameters, particularly space, participants and the environment.

Archive of Atmosphere Installation, A+W exhibition, Photograph Sam Hartnett.

 research unit: 0922
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Mike Austin (maustin@unitec.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Architectural theory and design
Pacific Island Architecture
Housing

I am interested in contemporary theory and criticism applied to design

studio. I am also interested in design as a research activity and my
research area is the architecture of Oceania.

Pacific navigation map

 research unit: 0923
supervision type: independent
research stream: history, theory, criticism

Staff: Lucy Treep (e.treep@auckland.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Architecture History and Theory
Landscape Design and Culture
Gender and Architecture
Writing Architecture
Architecture of Vulnerability

The Design Thesis offers the opportunity to explore an aspect of

architecture through writing as well as through more visual means. I
believe this is a chance to bring theoretical discourse alive with written
analysis of the particulars of your own work.

I am interested in the generation of ideas through writing. I am also

interested in design that acknowledges emotional as well as intellectual
connection with the subject. Interaction between fields of exploration is
frequently fertile, and leads to design with a deeply layered sense of
place, culture, and time.

Library Alexandria
 research unit:
supervision type:
0924
research stream:

Staff: Graeme Burgess (graeme.nz.burgess@gmail.com)

Research fields:

I am a practising architect. Our small practice specialises in residential

work, and conservation and heritage.

I have maintained an involvement with the School of Architecture

throughout my career, both through teaching studio and as a thesis
supervisor for the masters program since 2010.

I think of architecture, whether new or old, as cultural text, a combination

of layers that represent the ideas and social thinking of a society.

The masters program provides the opportunity to explore and develop

ideas and to place those ideas within a cultural framework through
research, writing and the development of your design project.

I consider my role as a supervisor to be support and guidance, the

project is yours.

Towoomba fernery
 research unit: 0925
supervision type: independent
research stream: expanded field

Staff: Matt Liggins (mlig001@aucklanduni.ac.nz)

Research fields:
Art and Architecture and everything in between
Social, Cultural and Political Architecture
Environmental Architecture and Sustainability through
design

Matt Liggins graduated with a BArch (hons) from Auckland University

in 2002. Since then he has worked in various architectural practices
in New Zealand, London and Sydney and has exhibited in galleries
in New Zealand and Australia. Starting his own practice in 2012, he
combines an art and architecture practice and has a keen interest in
the way in which they both overlap and influence each other.

Im interested in the research into current NZ social, cultural and

political issues and their relevance to current world events and whether
architecture can play a positive role in increasing the quality of peoples
lives, the society it is a part of and the greater culture of a nation.

I believe that the research into current environmental issues which put
the future of humanity at risk and the role that architecture plays to
remedy these issues through build design to help protect the planet
and its inhabitants future is a key contributor to our future sustainability.
Individuals are encouraged to follow their own interests and passions to
develop an original thesis project which is relevant to them, and which
reflects both the current architectural worlds needs and investigates
the future role of architecture in the ever changing world.

Authors own
 research unit:
supervision type:
0926
research stream:

Staff: Jeremy Salmond (JeremyS@salmondreed.co.nz)

Research fields:
Building design,
Heritage advice and planning
Building condition assessment

Jeremy Salmond has 35 years experience in design, research,

conservation and contemporary architecture. His project experience
includes the adaptation and restoration of many important heritage
buildings, as well as the design of new buildings. He has assisted
local authorities to identify regional historic heritage and to develop
protective mechanisms in district plans. His company has prepared
more than 150 conservation plans for New Zealand heritage buildings.
He is a Fellow of Auckland Museum; in 2007 he was awarded the
Queens Service Order (QSO) for his contribution to the preservation
of New Zealands heritage.

Authors own
 research unit:
supervision type:
0927
research stream:

Staff: Michael OSullivan (michael@bosarchitecture.co.nz)

Michael John OSullivan is a Draughtsman and a Registered Architect. He is

a practical and sensible thinker that holds a position at Auckland University
teaching Studio and supervising Masters Students thesis work. He enjoys
physically building and making furniture for his residential clients. His success
as an architect has been well documented in the public eye.

The B/OS practice was formed in 1994 when Andrew Bull and Michael
OSullivan, having recently returned from practice in Europe and Asia
respectively, decided to combine forces to attend to the larger projects coming
into the B/OS practice. Glenn Watt joined in 1999 after a long and expansive
career as a sole practitioner. The portfolio of work demonstrates an extensive
array of projects with national and international clients spanning a broad
spectrum of budgets and building technologies. The firm consists of three
principals and three architects, and eight graduate architects/model

Philosophy:
The B/OS practice is driven by the pursuit of quality a belief that our
surroundings directly influence the quality of our lives, whether in the
workplace, at home or the public spaces and structures in between. It is not
just buildings but urban design that affects our wellbeing. We are concerned
with the physical context of a project, sensitive to the culture and climate of
their place. We have applied the same priorities from housing to education to
furniture.
The B/OS philosophy and values that inspire every project are the same
regardless of scale or size. This explains why no detail is too small in its
importance for the B/OS practice and why the same amount of care and
attention will be lavished on the design of a door handle, a tap, or a piece of
furniture.
These, after all, are the elements of the environment that we physically touch
every day of our lies. The B/OS practice believes the quality of a project is not
necessarily related to how much it costs, but rather how wisely the resources of
time and money are spent. The setting of standards is more about an attitude
of mind in defining goals and honouring commitments. In that sense the most
important things have not changed - in particular the philosophy of quality and
optimism at the most personal of levels.

Lyttelton Studio Retreat

 research unit: 0928
supervision type: independent
research stream: urban design

Staff: Staff: Sue Evans (sueevans@xtra.co.nz)

Research fields:
Density and urban regeneration
Urban transport and movement systems
Public space
Social Housing
Making and craft practice as design research

Im interested in the designers role in analysing and shaping complex

city systems.

How a carefully observed understanding of the historical, personal

and political activities of the city could inform an approach to the
design of domestic realms, movement networks, public space and
neighbourhoods.

Map of the ancient Aztec capital Tenochtitlan (c. 1524).

 research unit:
supervision type:
0929
research stream:

Staff: Jack McKinney (jack@mwarchitects.co.nz)

Research fields:

Founded in 2002 by Jack McKinney and Bryan Windeatt, the practice

McKinney and Windeatt Architects is based in Ponsonby, Auckland.
They enjoy working with clients to create site-specific, individually
tailored buildings. Over the last decade they have worked across a
range of project types and budgets; what remains consistent is an
ambition to deliver the best outcome for each commission and a
rigorous approach to detail. They aim to provide strong, resolved and
enriching architecture.

40th & Hurstmere by McKinney + Windeatt Architects

 research unit:
supervision type:
0930
research stream:

Staff: Eu Jin Chua (echua.ac@gmail.com)

Research fields:
Architecture in the expanded field, especially (1) film,
video, cinematics, moving image; and (2) installation,
sculpture, public art.
Critical theory and philosophy, incl. art & architecture
theory, film theory, political thought.
Environmental and ecological thought; landscape and
geographic practices.
Writing practices
Domestic architecture, housing

Expanded field:
My studio training is in architecture, but subsequent work has been in film
and contemporary art; I have worked in the art world as well as in the design
industry. I would thus be happy to supervise expanded field projects.
Previous projects supervised include work in spatial and video installation
(one of which can be viewed here: http://bestawards.co.nz/entries/spatial/
from-here-to-here-du-sel-sur-la-neige/).

Theory:
I welcome projects that are driven by intellectual or theoretical concerns. I
have an abiding interest in political and philosophical issues where these
relate to architecture and the arts. I will be convening the upcoming annual
Interstices conference titled The Arts of Spinoza; this will be the long-
gestating result of an interest in the work of the philosopher Spinoza. For how
Spinoza might help us think about issues of affordable housing and inequality,
see the short documentary Equal by Design http://www.equalbydesign.co.uk/

Ecology/environment:
My current research project is on ecological issues in aesthetic practice,
including issues of landscape, art and ecology, nature-culture, and new
materialisms; I can contribute expertise in these areas.

More information at bbk.academia.edu/eujinchua

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