Ecstasy and equity
Jul 04, 2021
4 minutes
Karamia Müller
RECENTLY, I ACTED AS A member on a Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Awards jury panel. It can feel a bit cheesy to say these things but it really was an honour.
The ecstasy of architecture: looking up at the detail of a brick soffit as if in prayer, trailing a hand over a balustrade, staring up into a vault of light, sighing at an exquisite handle. The experience is a roller coaster of intimacies; you are invited into people’s homes, and over the thresholds into the architects’ heads. I saw homes that were worth millions of dollars. In the same week, I was warmly welcomed into neat-as-a-pin, one-bedroom public housing apartments and then,
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