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MICHAEL DAVIS 
Dr Michael Davis is Director 
of Architecture Programmes 
at the University of Auckland 
School of Architecture and 
Planning, where he also 
teaches and researches in 
architectural design and 
architectural media. A 
registered architect, he has 
practised in New Zealand, 
Canada, and the Netherlands. 
His project experience spans 
from high-density housing 
to heritage retro-fits, and 
from government buildings 
to resorts in locations from 
Ethiopia to New Caledonia. 
He holds a PhD from RMIT 
(Melbourne) and a Master of 
Architecture in Architecture 
and Urbanism from the 
Architectural Association’s 
Design Research Laboratory 
(London).

ROBERT FREESTONE
Dr Robert Freestone is a 
Professor of Planning in the 
Faculty of Built Environment 
at the University of New 
South Wales. His research 
interests are in planning 
history, metropolitan and 
airport planning, heritage, 
and education. His books in-
clude Planning Metropolitan 
Australia (2018), Dialogues 
in Urban and Regional 
Planning 6 (2017), Place and 
Placelessness Revisited (2016), 
Urban Nation: Australia’s 
Planning Heritage (2010), and 
Urban Planning in a Changing 
World (2000).

JULIA GATLEY
Associate Professor Julia 
Gatley is Head of the 
School of Architecture and 
Planning at the University of 
Auckland and an historian 
of twentieth-century New 
Zealand architecture. She 
has published four books 
with Auckland University 
Press: Vertical Living: The 
Architectural Centre and 
the Remaking of Wellington 
(2014, with Paul Walker); 
Athfield Architects (2012); 
Group Architects: Towards 
a New Zealand Architecture 
(2010); and Long Live the 
Modern: New Zealand’s New 
Architecture, 1904–1984 
(2008). She also co-edit-
ed, with Lucy Treep, The 
Auckland School: 100 Years 
of Architecture and Planning, 
published in 2017 on the occa-
sion of the Auckland School of 
Architecture and Planning’s 
centenary.

SAM KEBBELL
Dr Sam Kebbell is a Senior 
Lecturer in the School of 
Architecture at Victoria 
University of Wellington 
(VUW) and a director of 
KebbellDaish Architects. He 

graduated with a BArch(Hons) 
from VUW and an MDes 
(History and Theory) (Dist) 
from Harvard in 1999 before 
working in Europe and 
North America. He has won 
numerous awards for his work 
and has presented to both 
academic and professional 
audiences in New Zealand 
and around the world. In 
2015, Sam won an ADAPT-r 
Research Fellowship at the 
University of Westminster, 
London, and he completed his 
PhD at RMIT in 2016.

MILICA MAĐANOVIC
Milica Mađanovic is the 
first recipient of the Murray 
Wren Doctoral Scholarship in 
Architecture at the University 
of Auckland. In the School of 
Architecture and Planning, 
she is preparing her thesis 
on architectural historicism. 
She is employed as a teaching 
and marking assistant at the 
University of Auckland, and as 
a part-time lecturer at Unitec 
Institute of Technology, 
Auckland. Milica has written 
several papers published in 
peer-reviewed journals, and 
has presented papers at a 
number of conferences.

GILL MATTHEWSON
Dr Gill Matthewson has a 
background as a practising 
architect in Britain and New 
Zealand and continues to de-
sign. She has a longstanding 
interest in women in architec-
ture, which has encompassed 
scholarly work, activism, 
and advocacy from the 1980s 
onwards. The latest manifes-
tation of this concern is her 
PhD thesis, “Dimensions of 
Gender: Women’s Careers in 
the Australian Architecture 
Profession”, which was 
conferred by the University 
of Queensland in 2015 and 
earned a Dean’s Award for 
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currently teaching at Monash 
University in Melbourne.

ANN MCEWAN
Dr Ann McEwan is an 
independent scholar and 
the principal of Heritage 
Consultancy Services (est. 
2006), which provides her-
itage policy and assessment 
services throughout New 
Zealand. She has lectured 
in architectural history and 
heritage conservation at the 
University of Waikato and the 
University of Auckland and 
was a foundation member 
of the Auckland Council 
Heritage Advisory Panel. Ann 
is the Registers Coordinator 
for DOCOMOMO NZ and since 
2011 has written a weekly 
heritage building column for 
the Waikato Times.

AARON PATERSON
Aaron Paterson is an archi-
tect and a director of PAC, a 
collaborative ideas-driven 
architecture studio, commit-
ted to intellectual and artistic 
rigour and to realising ideas 
in the world. Aaron’s build-
ings range from houses and 
community facilities to com-
mercial projects and even the 
Giraffe House at the Auckland 
Zoo. He has earned New 
Zealand Architecture Awards 
for the Lake Hawea courtyard 
house and the S-House (see 
www.p-a-c.nz). Aaron is also 
a part-time lecturer in the 
School of Architecture and 
Planning at the University 
of Auckland, and a regular 
contributor to architectural 
publications. 

PATRICK REYNOLDS
Patrick Reynolds is a perpetu-
al student of the urban world. 
He is deputy director of advo-
cacy groups Greater Auckland 
and Urban Auckland, and 

serves on various public 
sector boards. He writes 
about urban futures, and has 
taught urban design papers at 
the University of Auckland’s 
School of Architecture and 
Planning. He is also New 
Zealand’s leading photogra-
pher of the built environment, 
with numerous books to his 
name, including New New 
Zealand Houses with John 
Walsh, Architecture Uncooked 
with Pip Cheshire, Villa with 
Jeremy Salmond and Jeremy 
Hansen, and Bungalow with 
Nicole Stock.

CHRISTOPH SCHNOOR
Dr Christoph Schnoor is 
an Associate Professor 
of Architecture at Unitec 
Institute of Technology, 
Auckland, where he has 
worked since 2004. Lecturing 
in the history and theory 
of architecture, his main 
research fields are modernist 
architecture (with specific 
focus on Le Corbusier and 
Ernst Plischke) and colonial 
and post-colonial architecture 
in Samoa. At present, he is 
working on an intellectual bi-
ography on Ernst Plischke, to 
be published in both German 
and English editions. 

LINDA TYLER
Associate Professor Linda 
Tyler has taught art and 
design history at Canterbury, 
Victoria, Waikato, and 
Auckland universities and 
at the Dunedin School of Art 
and Unitec. She is currently 
convenor of the Museums and 
Cultural Heritage programme 
at the University of Auckland. 
She has a particular interest 
in the legacy of Bauhaus 
pedagogies promoted in 
post-World War II Aotearoa 
by émigré architects and 
designers. She is an Associate 
Emerita of the Auckland War 
Memorial Museum, and a 

Research Associate of the 
Museum of New Zealand Te 
Papa Tongarewa.

LUCY VETE
Lucy Vete completed her 
Master of Architecture 
(Professional) at the 
University of Auckland 
School of Architecture and 
Planning in 2017. With her 
thesis project, “Shifting 
Grounds: Conceptions of the 
Homeland and the Journey 
to Emergence”, she won the 
top prize in the annual NZIA 
Student Design Awards that 
year. This national compe-
tition is held across New 
Zealand’s three schools of 
architecture. Upon comple-
tion of her thesis, Lucy spent 
the first half of 2018 travelling 
solo across the United States 
and Europe, and then took up 
a position with Architectus in 
Auckland.