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Accrediting agencies : towards a practical ethics for accreditation and recognition procedures in architectural education
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This thesis is the first to theoretically address programme accreditation and recognition procedures for architectural education as a contestable symbolic field. At one level, the general perception of accreditation conveys an apparently benign interest in ensuring the quality of architectural education and the competence and capabilities of graduates. Yet, as external mechanisms of control, these procedures often hold schools of architecture, their host institutions and their academic practices to account. The thesis builds on Pierre Bourdieu's "logic of practice" to develop a theoretical field within which to address the proposition that accreditation procedures must operate on at least two related levels. First, at the level of trans-national institutional structures or protocols that set out formal methods by which the procedures are to be carried out. Secondly, at the level of the practices of individuals or small groups of individuals, agents, brought together as site visiting panels charged with implementing the procedures at a local level.....
Representations of architecture and New Zealand in London, 1841-1860
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This dissertation considers the way that architecture and New Zealand were presented in Britain between 1841 and 1860. These two decades extend from the establishment of British sovereignty in 1840 and the creation of New Zealand as a Crown Colony in 1841, to the eve of the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s. Through this span, shifting relationships were negotiated between the colonisers in Britain, the settler invaders in New Zealand and the indigenous population of Maori. Over this twenty year period, various notions of what 'New Zealand' meant became consolidated in the British mind. The invasion of New Zealand by British settlers and the emergence of the architectural weekly magazine in London are almost coincidental events which jointly prompt this study. In this discussion, architectural journals, magazines, newspapers and exhibitions are interpreted both as sites where the processes of colonisation were acted out and as instruments that regulated and reinforced colonial relations. This dissertation is a piece of historical research that is informed by interdisciplinary scholarship on Victorian periodicals and post colonial theory relating to settler colmues. Through close reading of literature and visual material, and through study of wider cultural and political contexts, shifting colonial relations and the processes of colonisation are investigated. Written accounts of employment in the building trades, church building, and commentary on building and settlement in the colony are studied. In addition, an art show, panoramas, exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and European theorists' citation of examples of the material culture of Maori are also investigated. These episodes enable an understanding of the processes of colonisation and the negotiation of colonial relations. Through this study, some previously unknown events in the development of New Zealand architecture are identified. Significantly, some of these complicate and counter generally held understanding of the New Zealand's colonial history. The presentations of the colony's architecture in London provide evidence of the development of the discursive construction of 'New Zealand'. This shifting development is tracked and discussed. Finally, there is observation on how these presentations helped shape early, and sometimes lasting, perceptions of architecture in New Zealand
The reluctant capital : the fabrication of colonial Auckland 1840-1852
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This thesis studies the fabrication of early Auckland, which was a direct result of colonisation from the parent British power. There is no attempt to interpret the fabric of pre-European Auckland, or those structures which already existed on the isthmus as a result of long term indigenous occupation. In a work solely concerned with the process of colonisation, it seemed appropriate to begin 'at the beginning' which was when Auckland was proclaimed capital, on 18 September 1840, and a 'certain portion of land was to be given to the Government by certain chiefs'. Similarly, a natural point of conclusion for this thesis was 1852, when the British influence in New Zealand was lessened by the introduction of Responsible Government, and the first steps were taken towards New Zealand becoming an autonomous nation. As an architect John Mitchell found some seventy years ago, the architecture of Auckland naturally ranges itself under five heads. As he says, an attempt to deal with these would have to embrace the devotional, the memorial, the civil, the military and the domestic. 'I This advice has been taken on the whole, but the 'memorial' will have to find a place in another thesis. Perhaps 'devotional' covers it in part. As with the various building typologies, some licence has been taken with the term `fabrication'. To 'fabricate' also means to 'invent' and this deception is evident, both in terms of colonial styles and materials, and the official dicta, which often came into conflict with colonial initiative and independence. The fabric of Auckland has been woven on to the landform from a myriad of sources, both in terms of influences and materials.
This 'first' colonial period was characterised by an interpretation of the vernacular tradition, the use of local materials, and an attempt to introduce a fabric which was particularly appropriate to the Tamaki Makarau isthmus
A core-periphery analysis of population and urbanisation patterns in Natal/KwaZulu.
Get PDFThesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1989.This study aims to expose the impact of racial separation policies on the spatial distribution of the population groups in Natal/ KwaZulu, and on Black urbanisation, within a core-periphery framework. Chapter One focuses on global population and urbanisation trends to highlight the difference between First and Third World characteristics, and applies the First and Third World distinction to South Africa. Chapter Two outlines the impact of colonialism, apartheid and separate development on the spatial distribution of the population in South Africa, and especially Natal/KwaZulu. Chapter Three discusses the Friedmann core-periphery model, and the application of the core-periphery model to the Southern African region, as well as the modernisation/dependency debate in terms of its impact on shaping differing perspectives of the relationship between core and peripheral regions a8d perspectives of the urbanisation process. Chapter Four is comprised of an empirical examination of the coreperiphery structure of the Natal/KwaZulu regional economy, and the core-periphery distribution of its population settlement, both between and within such, regions, as well as the geographical distribution of the types of population settlements and the size of the urban population. An assessment of the size and distribution of the population in the Durban Functional Region is also made. Chapter Five draws the main conclusions of the previous Chapters together, critically examines the validity of the Friedmann model in terms of its application to the Southern African and Natal/ KwaZulu regions and discusses the development/underdevelopment relationship between Natal and KwaZulu and its implications for the immediate future
International House, University of Auckland
No full textEntry and criotical comment on Modern Architecture in New Zealandhttp://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1841599&vid=UOA2_
Conflict and Change in Australia's Peri-Urban Landscapes [Book Review]
No full textReview of "Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes, edited by Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, and Marco Amati, London, Routledge, 2016, 287 pp., (hardback), ISBN: 9781472466853
University of Auckland, City Campus
No full textEntry and critical comments to a collection of Modern Architecture in New Zealand.http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1841599&vid=UOA2_
Guide to the Architecture of Central Auckland
No full textUpdated and expanded guide to the 1st edition (2003) containing descriptions for an additional 15 buildings in central Aucklandhttp://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1671496&vid=UOA2_
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