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Breaker Bay House faces the elements

extract from Build, October/November 2002

 Breaker Bay is on the rugged south coast of Wellington. This house, built three years ago, overlooks the foreshore and was one of the first project designed by Funktion Architects.

The clients had an existing one room batch that had been altered over the years. They were happy to be adventurous with the arrangement of spaces and the types of materials used on the house. For example, parts of the upper membrane and macrocarpa decking brought into the house.

November 14th, 2006

“From And For Lagos”, ARCHIS #1(”Archis is Africa”), 2002, pp 11-15

Publisher: Artimo, P.O. Box 14702 1001 LE Amsterdam, www.archis.org

Continue Reading August 9th, 2006

“What (a) State? Brazilianess via Architectre in West Africa”, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, 2008, pp 157-164

Proceeding of Architecture and Identity Conference, Berlin University of Technology, Germany, [www.architecture-identity.de]

Continue Reading June 9th, 2006

Dusty Manuscript of a Thesis I wrote in 1994 on Igbo Architecture in Nigeria

I spent Three years writing it - so I thought it was worth putting on the web site even though it has little or nothing to do with the practice - someone out there must be interested in the esoteric post modernist postulation on the relationship of ritual, culture and architecture? Full of jargon - there are some interesting things in the thesis (pdf document) but its hard going!

Continue Reading April 9th, 2006