The Uni­ver­sity of Auckland’s School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning will launch its pop­u­lar Com­mu­niqué Autumn Lec­ture Series with a show­case of national and inter­na­tional experts that spans pro­fes­sions and disciplines.

Now in its fourth year, the Com­mu­niqué pub­lic lec­ture series high­lights the breadth and depth of the National Insti­tute of Cre­at­ive Arts and Indus­tries (NICAI), widely respec­ted as a hub for trans– and inter­dis­cip­lin­ary research and prac­tice. This semester’s offer­ings include lec­tures on dance cho­reo­graphy, Tongan sculp­ture, mod­ern­ist archi­tec­ture in the Soviet Union, and a Bedouin primary school made of tyres and mud. Speak­ers hail from the United States, Japan, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand.

“It may be ini­tially sur­pris­ing to find lec­tures on cho­reo­graphy and sculp­ture in a series presen­ted by a School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning, but Communiqué’s diversity reflects the scope of our two dis­cip­lines,” says Senior Lec­turer of Archi­tec­ture Jeremy Tread­well, who has coördin­ated the pro­gramme. “As host of this pres­ti­gi­ous line-up of guests, the School cel­eb­rates the rich­ness inher­ent in these areas of study.”

Fea­tured speak­ers include Patrick Reyn­olds, New Zealand's lead­ing archi­tec­tural pho­to­grapher. He has also col­lab­or­ated with writers on best-selling books on such top­ics as the villa, the bach, con­tem­por­ary houses, and archi­tects’ own res­id­ences. Patrick is cur­rently teach­ing a paper on archi­tec­tural pho­to­graphy at NICAI.

Los Angeles-based archi­tect Mark Lee is a found­ing part­ner of John­ston Marklee. Their work often involves col­lab­or­a­tions bey­ond those typ­ical of archi­tec­ture, involving con­tem­por­ary artists, graphic design­ers, writers and pho­to­graph­ers. Mark Lee will teach an intens­ive design stu­dio later this semester.

As one of the nation's lead­ing land­scape design­ers, Megan Wraight works with our best archi­tects and urban design­ers to cre­ate pub­lic spaces and land­scapes around the coun­try. Her most cel­eb­rated works include the multi-award-winning Wait­angi Park in Wel­ling­ton, which broke new ground with its eco­lo­gical features.

Neil Ieremia is one of New Zealand’s most accom­plished con­tem­por­ary dance cho­reo­graph­ers. He is the founder and artistic dir­ector of the dance com­pany Black Grace recog­nised as the world’s lead­ing expo­nent of Pacific con­tem­por­ary dance.

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