Welcome to Episode 62! It's a guest episode this time, with the full team talking with an impressive creator, problem solver, and starchitect-wrangler. We're joined this episode by Hamish Nevile, Director of Design at Holmes Group - a structural, fire, and infrastructure consultancy with offices in New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, and the USA. Starting as a structural engineer, Hamish has had a fascinating career and has been involved in not only some of Aotearoa's most significant proje...
Jul 03, 2025•50 min
Welcome to Episode 61! Still buzzing from our special anniversary episode, the whole team gathered to discuss the question of why colour disappeared from contemporary architecture, and is it undergoing a resurgent return? Our discussion covered how architects are trained, what influences the use and selection of colour in design, and some of our favourite uses of colour in architecture. Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels Cover photo taken by Arch - the artist David Rickard's feet at Paimio Sanatoriu...
May 15, 2025•36 min
Welcome to Episode 60! In this very special recording we celebrate ten years of 76 Small Rooms, in a live audience recording at Objectspace Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Deftly compered by Jeremy, the team were joined by a brilliant panel made up of Objectspace director Kim Paton; Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism's Jade Kake; and our very first guest back in 2015 - architect and founder of RTA Studio Rich Naish. We discussed two questions: how has design in Aotearoa New Zealand changed in...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to Episode 59! The whole team gathered for our first fully online interview with 2024 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medal winners Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown. Their award citation describes them as having "travelled commonly avoided pathways" in their work, and our discussion delves deeper into their meeting, the strong commitment to listening and learning, and the complementary nature of their partnership. Their inventive incorporation of Te Ao Māori into architectural responses overlaps...
Mar 11, 2025•48 min
Welcome to Episode 58! We took a quick breath before submerging for Christmas to get together and look back on the end of the First Quarter 21st Century results. It's been a great year, and we discuss the architects who've inspired us or caught our attention. Our huge thanks to Barry Tobin, who dropped in to photograph this session xxx Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels Cover photo: Barry Tobin https://www.barrytobin.co.nz/
Dec 17, 2024•52 min
Welcome to Episode 57! Today's episode features a special international visitor, Roan Ching-Yueh - an architect, curator, critic and writer based in Taipei. He received his MA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a licensed architect in both the United States and Taiwan. Roan was in Aotearoa to present a series of talks and workshops, and we sat down for an hour of exciting intellectual calisthenics, discussing the illegal architecture of Taipei, the failed promise of Modernism, and the in...
Nov 09, 2024•50 min
Welcome to Episode 56! We have a fantastic group of guests for this episode. The whole team sit down at the home of Lance and Nicola Herbst to chat with them and author John Walsh about their retrospective book 'Herbst: Architecture in Context'. It's a long and detailed discussion, covering the Herbst's journey to, and attachment with Aotearoa; their design philosophy and methods; and what's next in the sketchbook for their practice. We loved the kōrero and thank our guests for their time and ho...
Oct 24, 2024•54 min
Kia ora tātou e hoa mā, nau mai ki te Episode 55! Today the full team set themselves to do Jeremy's homework and discuss our favourite cities. We understood the assignment. American Modern, by Matt Shaw & Iwan Baan: https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/american-modern-architecture-community-columbus-indiana Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels Cover: AI image by Microsoft CoPilot
Sep 26, 2024•43 min
Welcome to Episode 054! Today the full team gather to kōrero on what's filled our WhatsApp over the last month. We ponder the arguments in a great NYT article about the risks and rewards of hosting an Olympics, and the shortlists of the UK and Aotearoa's own top respective architecture gongs. New York Times article, Hosting the Olympics Costs Billions. What Does a City Get Back?: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/magazine/olympics-city-redevelopment-paris.html RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist 2024...
Aug 29, 2024•31 min
Welcome to Episode 053! Today Arch, Tash, and Jeremy talk with Bill McKay, senior lecturer in the School of Architecture at University of Auckland. We discussed the new book Urban Aotearoa: The Future for Our Cities, a new release from Bridget Williams Books, which Bill co-edited with David Batchelor. We asked Bill his views on the issues facing our cities, the current Government positions on the topic, and what answers he sees to address the needs of a growing Aotearoa. Urban Aotearoa is out no...
Jul 18, 2024•41 min
Welcome to Episode 052! The team range across several topics today, starting with the recent NZIA awards round and Tash's experience as a judge, and whether Aotearoa's architects are good presenters. We also review the recent success of the film 'Maurice and I', talk about adaptive reuse as a tool for central city revitalisation, and what books we're reading. Maurice and I website and trailer: https://mauriceandi.com/ Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
Jun 26, 2024•39 min
Our third and final interview from Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects In:Situ 2024 conference is with Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang. Studio Gang's work is extremely wide-ranging, and defies categorisation. We talked with Jeanne about some of her most meaningful projects, the new ways in which architects shape cities, technology and making, and the patient art of long projects. We thank the NZIA for their support in organising these interviews. Studio Gang: https://studi...
Mar 14, 2024•26 min
In our second interview from Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects In:Situ 2024 conference, we talk with Sandra Barclay and JeanPierre Crousse about their talk, how they collaborate as 'double partners' in life and work, and their love of creative constraints. They established Barclay & Crousse Architecture in Paris in 1994 and Lima, Peru, in 2006. We are grateful to the NZIA for their support in organising these interviews. Barclay & Crousse: https://www.barclaycrousse....
Mar 07, 2024•32 min
In the first of three interviews from Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects In:Situ 2024 conference, we join Kai-Uwe Bergmann to talk about his work, projects, and BIG's emphasis on refining design communication. Kai-Uwe is a partner at BIG Architects and oversees their urban and landscape projects globally. We are grateful to the NZIA for their support in organising these interviews. BIG Architects: https://big.dk/ NZIA's Q&A with Kai-Uwe: https://www.nzia.co.nz/in-situ/q-a...
Feb 29, 2024•29 min
Welcome to Episode 048! Today Arch, Tash and Jeremy huddled in St Matthew's in the City to talk with Kevin O'Brien, a Principal at BVN Architects in Australia, leading their Designing with Country strategy. Kevin was in Aotearoa to judge the Te Kāhui Whaihanga Resene Student Design Awards. We spoke with Kevin about what it means to Design with Country, the Student Design Awards work, and his recent projects. Kevin O'Brien - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O%27Brien_(architect) https://www.bv...
Dec 07, 2023•34 min
Welcome to Episode 047! Today Arch, Tash and Jeremy interview Canadian architect Tye Farrow, who visited Aotearoa in October to promote his upcoming book Constructing Health. Tye is a captivating speaker, and works 'at the intersection of architecture and neuroscience', uniquely qualified in holding a Master of Neuroscience Applied to Architecture (University of Venice IUAV), a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (Harvard University), and a Bachelor of Architecture degree (University of Toron...
Nov 02, 2023•54 min
Welcome to Episode 046! It's the full team this episode as we discuss the upcoming NZIA National Awards, David Adjaye, Jeremy's new book on matua Rewi Thompson with Jade Kake, and how this is all to do with Oceangate. NZIA 2023 New Zealand Architecture Awards Shortlist https://nzia.co.nz/explore/news/2023/2023-new-zealand-architecture-awards-shortlist Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
Aug 31, 2023•46 min
Welcome to Episode 045! We get out and about and visit CoHaus in Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand, and talk to its architects - Thom Gill and Helle Westergaard of Studio Nord. Thom and Helle kindly welcomed us into their home for our chat, and explained the design and development process of CoHaus, as well as their background, what they've learned as designers, and paint a picture of a less common response to meeting our housing and social needs. It's a brilliant and generous interview, and we t...
May 11, 2023•50 min
Welcome to 2023! After our now-traditional summer hiatus we are back. Arch, Tash and Jeremy discuss this year's NZIA Gold Medal award winners Stevens Lawson, the work of David Chipperfield, and an article we loved by Kate Wagner before capping off our chat with the highlights of our summers. We're glad to be back into our year of exciting conversations! Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
Apr 20, 2023•41 min
To cap off 2022 we decided to get together with a few pals and discuss our year - our favourite buildings, our burning issues, and some reflections on the year that was. Thank you to all our listeners and supporters for listening this year, and we wish you a Meri Kihirimete and happy holidays - see you in '23 Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
Dec 15, 2022•44 min
We love a new book, and in this episode we talk to Elizabeth Cox, architectural historian and editor of Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture. Elizabeth shared many of the stories Making Space tells, and a few more, in a generous chat with us last week. Beautifully designed, it tells over one hundred years of stories, illuminating many not previously in the historical record. Making Space is out now, and we hope you enjoy this episode's kōrero with Elizabeth. More info on ...
Oct 27, 2022•46 min
In our second interview from this year's New Zealand Institute of Architects Mini In:Situ Conference, we chat with Los Angeles based architect Michael Maltzan about housing as infrastructure and why he believes that the practice of architecture can provide solutions to complex environmental and social problems. Cover Photo via Columbia GSAPP (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsapponline/18323955376) Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
Sep 15, 2022•32 min
Our first interview from this year's New Zealand Institute of Architects Mini In:Situ Conference, is a fantastic talk with Italian architect and academic Mario Cucinella - founder and creative Director of Mario Cucinella Architects, based in Bologna and Milan. Mario's work is remarkable, varied, and highly experimental, and we were very lucky to speak with him. Our thanks to the NZIA for arranging this year's interviews. Bio: https://www.insitu.nzia.co.nz/speakers/mario-cucinella/ Theme music: T...
Sep 08, 2022•35 min
Welcome to Episode 39! Today we talk with Nick Stevens and Gary Lawson about a very special project - the recently completed Auckland City Mission Homeground. We hope you enjoy the full story on the project's genesis, the innovation and many parties that helped bring it to fruition, and the rewards of patience, belief and persistence. More on the project here from architects Stevens Lawson https://www.stevenslawson.co.nz/projects/homeground/ Cover photo by Mark Smith Photography http://www.marks...
Jul 07, 2022•48 min
Welcome to Episode 38! Today we talk about the much debated Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill, and its potential and impact on housing design, density, and placemaking. Tash is our resident expert in this field, so she's our guest on today's episode. You can read the government's release on what they believe the changes to the RMA will achieve: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/bill-boost-housing-supply-passes This is Greater Auckland’s summary of t...
May 12, 2022•38 min
Welcome to Episode 37! After a long break we're back, and in this episode the whole crew of Tash, Arch, Jeremy and Mat talk with renown architect, urbanist, activist, and 2021 NZIA Gold Medal Winner Julie Stout. We loved our chat with Julie, covering sailing, drawing, her design process, and career highlights. It's good to be back and thanks for your patience! You can read Julie's Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects citation here https://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/gold-medal/2021-g...
Mar 03, 2022•44 min
Welcome to Episode 36! In this episode Tash, Jeremy and Arch are joined by Dr Anthony Hoete (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Ranana) in a rollicking chat about his incredibly varied career so far. Taking in everything from his original education at University of Auckland, his innovation with co-design and placemaking, and a brief stint running hot-tub rave parties, this was a hugely enjoyable kōrero. Episode cover photograph courtesy of ArchitectureNow Theme music by The Cosmic Wheels
Jul 01, 2021•54 min
Welcome to Episode 35! In this discussion Mat, Tash, and Arch talk with Michael Milojevic, Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning. Michael discusses his early interest in archeology and entry into architecture, his teaching journey and experiences, and what he's seen change over his time teaching. Episode cover photograph by Michael Milojevic Theme music by The Cosmic Wheels
May 13, 2021•49 min
Welcome to Episode 34! In this discussion Jeremy, Tash and Arch talk with architect, educator, co-founder of Architecture+Women NZ and all-round Aotearoa legend Lynda Simmons. We hear from Lynda about her love of drawing, its use as an architectural teaching method, and fail to convince her to start a TikTok channel You can read Lynda's opinion pieces for Architecture NZ magazine here: https://www.lyndasimmonsarchitect.com/research-1 Episode cover image by Lynda Simmons. Theme music by The Cosmi...
Apr 08, 2021•49 min
Welcome to Episode 33, our first of 2021. Tash, Jeremy and Mat discuss what they're looking forward to this year, a return to some favourite hot topics we'd love to see movement on, and Mat muses on what the New Zealand camping holiday tells us how we might shape our spaces without architects. Theme music by The Cosmic Wheels, pic by Arch (Nelson Dec 2020)
Feb 11, 2021•29 min
