Enduring Award

Roger Walker’s 1969 Flint House recently won an Enduring Architecture Award in the NZIA Auckland Region Local Architecture Awards.

 

 

Judges commented, “This perfectly maintained example of a house from a classic period of New Zealand architecture is a reminder of how fresh, playful and essentially novel Roger Walker’s work was — and still is. In a series of individually-articulated volumes set in a grove of kauri trees, this family home retains all the intricacies of planning, shifts in level, intimacies of scale and generous connection to the exterior world through a plethora of skylights and windows that sets it in contrast to so many of its contemporaries and successors. Designed to be lived-in rather than as a style-accessory, this house, like others of Walker’s best projects, still has an important message to convey: the very great pleasure that comes from occupying architecture — and, by the look of it, of making it too.”