Future Exhibitions

22 October-18 December 2010/19 January—13 February 2011
Designs for Living—four projects consisting of:

Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904-1984
Curated by Julia Gatley and Bill McKay, School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland. Surveying New Zealand’s extant modern buildings, this exhibition focuses on a smaller number of the published projects and brings together original drawings and period books, journals and photographs, as well as new architectural models and recent photographs. Increasingly, the modern buildings are being recognised for their heritage values. But many people remain unaccustomed to hearing ‘modern’ and ‘heritage’ in the same sentence. Long Live the Modern uses the word ‘modern’ in a very broad way, pursuing twentieth-century architectural initiatives concerned with the new – new technologies, new materials, new forms, new building types, new ways of living – initiatives embedded with the belief that the new would necessarily change lives in positive ways.

Mladen Bizumic—From Cube To Ball (Chapter 2)
A new body of work by Vienna/New Zealand based artist Mladen Bizumic that draws on the architectural legacy of Ernst Plischke which will include a model of one of his great examples of domestic architecture, the Sutch House, which is located in Wellington, suspended in space and accompanied by other installational elements. This project will highlight the contradictions and reversals of Bizumic’s practice, in its relocation of European modernist principles to this Antipodean setting. This project will  also be presented at the Kunsthalle Vienna, and at CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lisa Crowley—National Projects
An exhibition of new photographs by Auckland-based artist, Lisa Crowley that revisit the legacy of modern architecture in New Zealand.

Louise Menzies—The School of Radiant Living

These projects will be complemented by a one-day symposium dedicated to the work and legacy of Viennese architect Ernst Plischke organised by Robin Skinner at the School of Architecture and Design.