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PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD

Auckland School of 
Architecture and Planning 
Centenary, 2017

As noted in the editorial to this special issue of Interstices, the University 
of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning marked its centenary in 
September 2017 with a book on the history of the School, four exhibitions, the 
symposium at which the refereed articles in this volume were presented, a series 
of panel discussions with alumni, and a gala dinner. Presented here are photo-
graphs from the exhibitions and the dinner. 

The Auckland 
School: 100 Years 
of Architecture and 
Planning

The main School cen-
tenary exhibition, The 
Auckland School: 100 Years 
of Architecture and Planning, 
curated by Michael Milojevic, 
Lucy Treep, Andrew Barrie 
and Julia Gatley, was held at 
the Gus Fisher Gallery. The 
exhibition focused on student 
work produced across the 100 
years, particularly drawings, 

as well as coverage of key staff, 
publications and stories.
Photographs by Sam Hartnett, for the 
Gus Fisher Gallery.



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Design Studio in   
Action

The exhibition of current 
student work, Design Studio 
in Action, was curated by 
Manfredo Manfredini and 
Uwe Rieger, and held in the 
School’s Level 3 Exhibition 
Studio. It included drawings 
and models as well as digital 
work, with exhibition goers 
invited to use headphones 

100 Years, 100 Books 

Michael Milojevic and Sarah 
Cox curated a series of eight 
exhibitions throughout the 
centenary year, under the 
broad banner of 100 Years, 
100 Books, shown in the 
Architecture and Planning 
Library. The eight were: 
(i) Words and Pictures: “The 
Architecture Book” as a 
Conveyor of Architectural 
Information; 
(ii) The Civic; 
(iii) Observe and Record; 
(iv) The Glossies: Architectural 
Periodicals; 
(v) Architecture + Photography; 
(vi) Beautiful Theses: Students 
as Book Designers; 
(vii) The Technical Detail; and
(viii) Essentiality and 
Sensibility. 
Photographed here are The Civic 
(top left) and Words and Pictures 
(top right; Photographs by Sarah 
Cox); Architecture + Photography 
(Photograph by Johanna Holzke).

to listen to recordings of 
students talking about their 
work. 
Photographs by Joe Hockley, for the 
NZIA Festival of Architecture.



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100 Years of 
Architecture by Women

Architecture + Women New 
Zealand have exhibited their 
timeline on several occasions 
since 2013. The 2017 version, 
100 Years of Architecture by 
Women, included the addition 
of dark blue panels carrying 
the names of women architec-
ture students from the 1920s 
to the 1970s. 
Photographs by Joe Hockley, for the 
NZIA Festival of Architecture.

Alumni Gala Dinner

The culminating centenary 
event was an alumni gala 
dinner, held at the Pulman 
Hotel and attracting 280 peo-
ple. Senior lecturer Elizabeth 
Aitken Rose served as MC, 
while the late David Mitchell 
delivered an outstanding 
speech, reflecting on the 
School and its history, and 
Courtroom Brown, a band of 
architecture graduates, pro-
vided a musical interlude.

Photographs by Andrew 
Lau Photography (http://
andrewlauphotography.com).