developments: architectural designer
Replicating a housing culture from the United Kingdom and overlaying the indigenous culture, was not the solution for Aotearoa housing development, according to architectural designer Rau Hoskins (Ngāti Hau, Ngāpuhi)..
The current housing market did not allow for whānau-centred building projects to arise, as regulations were mainly designed for nuclear families, he said.
A director of Auckland-based designTRIBE architects Hoskins said public institutions should engage more with the “wider process of decolonising the building environment”.
On April 4, Hoskins will give a talk at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery on Māori architectural traditions and housing.
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