Architecture NZ

Ngā Pūtahitanga/Crossings

25 – 27 November 2022

Waipapa Taumata Rau

University of Auckland

It isn’t easy to get a bunch of architects and planners together for a weekend of collegial happiness, but SAHANZ (Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand) and the Australian UHPH (Urban History/Planning History) Group made it happen with their conference, Ngā Pūtahitanga/Crossings, held in November 2022. The conference brought together more than 100 people from a range of built environment disciplines to explore the intersecting lineages of planning and architecture, urban design, heritage conservation and landscape.

It was hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, and the convenors, Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, wove a

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