HomeGround

The Story of a Building that Changes Lives

HomeGround
Simon Wilson, Deidre Brown, Karamia Muller, Mark Smith
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Hardback
h255 x 200mm - 304pg
15 Dec 2022 NZ
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9781991016041
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A celebration of HomeGround, the Auckland City Mission' s unique and visionarywrap-around social services complex, which opened in early 2022 after being adream for over 20 years. Photographed by Mark Smith and with text by both renowned writer Simon Wilsonand Professor Deidre Brown and Dr Karamia Muller of the School of Architecture atthe University of Auckland, it is the portrait of a remarkable building designed byleading architecture practice Stevens Lawson. This book represents an enduring record of a remarkable building built fora remarkable organisation, created through the aroha and vision of many. Itdocuments and records a key moment in Aotearoa New Zealand, when a visionarysocial services agency, a committed architecture practice, courageous funders,and skilled construction specialists combined forces to create a facility that willtransform the delivery of services to, and create hope for a better future for,Auckland' s most vulnerable.
Simon Wilson is one of New Zealand' s best-known journalists. The former editorof Cuisine and Metro magazines and Auckland editor for The Spinoff, he is nowa senior writer at The New Zealand Herald. He is a regular writer on urban andsocial issues. Professor Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu) is an art historian andarchitectural lecturer. She is head of the School of Architecture and Planningat the University of Auckland and a governor of the Arts Foundation of NewZealand, a member of the Maori Trademarks Advisory Committee of theIntellectual Property Office of New Zealand, and a member of the HumanitiesPanel of the Marsden Fund. In 2021 she was made a Fellow of the Royal SocietyTe Aparangi. Dr Karamia Muller is a Pacific academic who lectures at the School ofArchitecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. Her research specialisesin the meaningful ' indigenisation' of creative practices and design methodologiesinvested in building futures resistant to inequality.
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ISBN-13: 9781991016041
Published: 15 Dec 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Massey University Press
Publisher: Massey University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 255mm
Width: 200mm
Pages: 304

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