The Auckland Museum celebrates the NZ House 8th April - 19th June Models for Living: 1905 - 2005 A survey of 100 years of NZ residential architecture What is a New Zealand house? The exhibition explores the historical development of New Zealand architect-designed houses and interiors.

The Auckland Museum celebrates the NZ House 8th April - 19th June Models for Living: 1905 - 2005 A survey of 100 years of NZ residential architecture What is a New Zealand house? The exhibition explores the historical development of New Zealand architect-designed houses and interiors. By presenting new, detailed scale-models constructed specially for this event, along with architectural drawings and photographs, the exhibition traces changing ideas about appropriate modes of expression for the domestic realm between 1905 and 2005. Recent work also speculates on the future possibilities for the house suggested by emerging technologies and new living patterns

Image: Pete Bossley's Heatley House, Bay of Islands, 1998 - "a roof hovering over a landscape..."

While public interest in architecture and interior design has grown hugely over the last decade, most of the public are only partially aware of the extraordinary range of architects' responses to the design of the New Zealand house. "Per capita, New Zealand has perhaps more architect-designed houses than any other country in the world. It has also, at times, been among the most self-conscious in its pursuit of both 'internationalism' and a distinctive, indigenous 'New Zealand identity' rooted in attitudes towards the land. It is timely to promote wider acknowledgement, understanding and recognition of the fascinating diversity of ideas, styles, materials and architectural careers that have contributed the kind of architecture that we think we know best: the house, our house" Charles Walker, Exhibition Curator The exhibition is timed to celebrate the centennial of the NZIA and coincide with the Annual Conference to be held in Auckland in May 2005. It will coincide with centennial of the 1905 Workingman's House Act and the 50th anniversary of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT)

Charles Walker: Biography Charles Walker trained as a painter and an architect. He is currently senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Auckland, School of Architecture and director of Futurespacific Studio, a collaborative design group committed to developing links between education, research and practice. Current interests include new technologies and the architecture of suburbia. He is a frequent contributor to professional and academic architectural journals and has edited the book, Exquisite Apart: 100 years of architecture in New Zealand, to mark the Centennial of the New Zealand Institute of Architects in May 2005. Recent exhibitions include Paper/ Space/Craft at Object Space in Auckland and Paper House at fifty2gallery Wellington.

The Auckland Museum celebrates the NZ House with three exhibitions timed to commemorate the centennial of the New Zealand Institute of Architects and the Annual Conference to be held in Auckland in May 2005 and the 50th anniversary of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Models for Living: 1905 - 2005 A survey of 100 years of NZ residential architecture What is a New Zealand house? Models for Living features architecturally designed houses dated from 1905 to the present, from the 'working man's house' of the early 1900s to a 2005 design for an as yet unfinished home. Specially made scale models and digital presentations expose the design and detail of each house in three dimensions.

Ernst Plischke in New Zealand From the City Art Gallery Wellington comes Ernst Plischke :Architect an exhibition that celebrates the New Zealand work of renowned Austrian architect Ernst Plischke. Plischke practised in New Zealand from 1939 until 1963, making a profound and influential contribution to New Zealand architecture and urban planning. The exhibition comprises plans, drawings and photographs that illustrate the extent and quality of Plischke's work in this country, highlighting his role as both an ideologue and practitioner, in the fields of town-planning and house, church, monument and furniture design.

Monique Redmond: Housing Embroidered mementos of the NZ home Eight digitally embroidered works make up Monique Redmond's exhibition, Housing. The images are drawn from photos of houses found in old family photo albums and archives, evoking women's roles and relationships with their homes and previous generations. Housing reveals and reminds us of the relationships women have had with their domestic environment.