Diamonds in the rough
These days, its many, many doors are thrown open each year to students doing a unit on Megson at the architecture school in Auckland, where he once taught his approach to design. The house, and that unit, does valuable work, exposing new generations to a completely different architectural philosophy, one that was almost steamrollered into oblivion by the almighty ‘elegant shed’ paradigm that has dominated since the 1980s.
A slim volume on some of Megson’s other work by architect Giles Reid, , with black-and-white images by our photographer, Jackie Meiring, opens with a description of Claude Megson delivering one of his own lectures to students. With his back
