Architecture NZ

Medium

Guy Marriage

EBOSS, 2022

Guy Marriage’s Medium is an important, beguiling and thorough examination of contemporary medium-density housing in New Zealand.

It’s important because, as a relatively new, strategically preferred and rapidly accelerating form of urban density, the medium-density residential type is likely to replace the familiar, less-dense versions of the same and supplant the urban norm of the single, stand-alone residential building on its own piece of land so ingrained in our national residential psyche.

The book has big ambitions and much to address.

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