Tiku’s essay, initially submitted to Professors Deidre Brown and Michael Milojevic when he was an undergraduate, is entitled A Renaissance of Māoritanga: Whare whakairo as novel ‘conventional’ id.
“The paper explores the pure evolution of the wharenui and whare whakairo, its roots and ancestors, and the the reason why Western society so readily accepts it as conventional,” says Tiku. “It then explores famed Māori scholar and MP Sir Āpirana Ngata’s impression on the revitalisation of the typology all through the Fifties and the impression his work had on modern-day perceptions of Māori constructing strategies and typologies, together with a more in-depth take a look at particular historic precedent.”
Tiku’s work culminates in a case research of maybe essentially the most well-known whare whakairo in Aotearoa, Te Whare Rūnanga on the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, and appears to the long run, contemplating new expressions of architectural id by and for the nation’s indigenous peoples.
The award-winning essay might be learn right here.