Tag Archives: education

Mak­ing More of Motif

March 26th, 2010
Xsite Archi­tects’ adven­tures in sym­bol­ism at the John Kinder Theo­lo­gical Lib­rary. From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional images and drawings. Words: Michael Bar­rett Images: Simon Devitt Fraught with dis­aster is the road of cul­tural motif woven with build­ing design. If you get it wrong, there’s a def­in­ite risk of com­ing across as pat­ron­ising and, at worst, insult­ing. [...]
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Revis­ing History

December 22nd, 2009
A visual tour of Steph­en­son & Turner’s recent lec­ture theatre revi­sion at the Uni­ver­sity of Auckland’s Bio­logy Building. Share/Save
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Inter­view: Guy Julier

October 8th, 2009
Are design grads still sprout­ing like mush­rooms in other coun­tries? How are other indus­tries get­ting bet­ter at integ­rat­ing design think­ing in their work? Are TV shows like Grand Designs good for the design industry? Design expo­nent, writer and pro­fessor Guy Julier vis­ited Design Stud­ies in Dunedin late last year, in his role of Wil­liam Evans [...]
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