072hin_POP UP CANOPY PRECURSORS!

WHAT_architecture 19-Oct-2010
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072hin_101009_Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha is an lecture format gaining worldwide currency. Instead of being bored to death by the 120minute monologue of the architect as presenter, Pecha Kucha is multiple presenters showing just 20 slides, each lasting 20 seconds. For the Nga Aho (a network of Maori design professionals) 2010 symposium, WHAT_architecture presented the ‘paint-by-numbers’ Hinemihi public workshop as a Pecha Kucha. That is one paint-by-number acrylic painting was transformed into a 20-colour Pecha Kucha palette: an polychromatic-aural presentation of 20 slides accompanied by 20 voice recordings!!

WHAT_architecture 30-Sep-2010
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072hin_Maori Architecture Conference

WHAT_architecture 28-Sep-2010
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072hin_100813_tree carving

Trees are the canvas of carving.

WHAT_architecture 13-Aug-2010
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072hin_100708_a pop-up performance space!

In front of the historic building is a pop-up performance space! That is to say, a high-tech carbon fibre structure that spring loads into a 100sqm temporary awning. This a tent-in-a-bag erectable by one woman!

WHAT_architecture 08-Jul-2010
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072hin_100708_postcard: Greetings from Hinemihi!

The meeting house Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito (Hinemihi of the Old World) was built in 1881 and stood on the North Island in the village of Te Wairoa, a few kilometres from the Pink and White Terraces on the shores of Lake Rotomahana. On June 10 1886, Mount Tarawera erupted, destroying the village and killing 153 of its inhabitants. Hinemihi provided shelter to numerous people during the eruption and was one of the few buildings to survive. In 1892 the Governor of New Zealand, the fourth Earl of Onslow, dismantled and shipped Hinemihi to England with instructions for reassembly in Clandon Park, Surrey. Finally a word about the all-embracing ‘Sargeant Pepper’s’ image of Hinemihi. She is not a house specifically for Maori. Whilst Hinemihi is of Maori origins, she grew up in England and is today a house for all… and a carrier of culture.

WHAT_architecture 08-Jul-2010
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072hin_2009_Television NZ / Te Karere report on Hinemihi

Te Karere news report on Hinemihi.

WHAT_architecture 10-Oct-2009
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072hin_MARITIME vs MAORITIME? THE CUTTY SARK VS HINEMIHI!

The Cutty Sark holds a value lesson for Hinemihi. If the Cutty Sark had not been conserved in dry dock but sailed then this boat, so significant to British Maritime history would not have been burnt down. The lesson is here that we can conserve our past not by cryogenic freezing objects and thus turning them into artefacts but by using boats and buildings so that their use brings to mind not only their history but also potential futures.

WHAT_architecture 26-May-2007
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