Related Tags

Items tagged with:

Tags

  • RSS

Obituaries and Architecture

Just Obituaries
    • Sir Michael Fowler
      • It’s a rare thing for an Architect to become a Mayor – and even rarer for an Architect to become a Knight. We (NZ) have only got a couple of benighted Architects, and there has only ever been one person who has attained both honours. Our only knighted Architect Mayor, Sir Michael Fowler, has sadly just passed away. I was not in Wellington when he was around, and only knew of him in a second-hand manner at the time, so I have asked an esteemed contributor to the site if he would like to say a few words. And lovely words they are.
      • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed by tonytw1
      • Tagged as:
      • architecture
      • obituaries

    • Henry Russell Walden (1934-2013)
      • Russell died last week. His funeral is tomorrow (Tues 30th, 3pm Old St Pauls). He was born in Timaru, studied architecture at the University of Auckland, and was awarded the first MArch in New Zealand in 1964 with his thesis: “New Zealand Anglican church architecture, 1814-1963″ – all nine volumes of it. Another first he achieved was gaining a New Zealand Post-Graduate Scholarship in Architecture. The next year he headed to Birmingham to PhD study and private practice, returning in 1978 as a Reader in Architectural History at VUW, having completed his PhD (1975) and edited the MIT Press publication: The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier (1977), an early collection of essays on Le Corbusier in English. http://www.futunatrust.org.nz/wp-content/header-images/windows.jpg Russell is renowned for his passionate relationship to Futuna Chapel – the subject of his Voices of Silence (1987) – as bicultural architecture.
      • Accepted from Architecture Centre news
      • Tagged as:
      • futuna-chapel
      • obituaries

        • Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Farewell Blanket Man
      • Since this is a blog devoted to the city of Wellington and its sense of place I can’t imagine that we could not mention his death. He was a permanent fixture of the streets of Wellington and was a bit of the spirit that, for me at least (and clearly others), made this city the interesting place it is to be.
      • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed
      • Tagged as:
      • obituaries
      • blanket-man

    • Roger Hay
      • Roger Hay, Architect, long time Arch Centre member, recent Fellow of the NZIA, tireless battler for the rights of the disabled and a scourge of incompetent officialdom everywhere, has died aged 76. Roger will be missed by many for his tireless championing of the rights of the disabled and for his work on revising the [...]
      • Submitted by tonytw1
      • Tagged as:
      • obituaries

Latest Newsitems

The latest newslog items.