Homeworld ’81: 40 years on

I’ve had a great trip down memory lane recently thinking about Homeworld ‘81 A few weeks ago I was contacted by a British film maker who was making a film to mark the 40th anniversary of this innovatove housing exhibition. I jumped at the chance – mostly because Homeworld ’81 was somehting I had been discussing with architectural colleagues in relation to the current affordable housing crisis in New Zealand. Watching ‘Homeworld ’81: The... Read More

Downsizing

In the 1940’s my parents built a classic brick and tile on ¼ acre in Hamilton suburbia and lived there for the rest of their lives. It was a nuclear family home of its time. After us kids left home, three of the four bedrooms remained empty. The land remained, with its maintenance intensive lawn, and was never subdivided. For the last fifty years or so in developed countries, it has been a demonstrable measure of success to own a large site upon... Read More