Aspects of Earth Building in New Zealand

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Vol 11 no 4, 1991

Special issue. Art as conservation of natural and built environments, art as ecology, new alliances, eco-design, autonomous houses, ecopolis, earth building, housing co-operatives, collaborative designs, sustainable cities. Great articles and photos.

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Author: Mr Graeme North, feature

New Zealand is not only snake less and nuclear free but also has a tradition of earth buildings. In pre European times, Maori utilised the ground's insulating properties by partially sinking thatched roofed houses into the ground.

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Editorial: Art, Architecture and the Environment
Feature: 2040: A Message from the Future
Feature: Acoustic Futures. Sound Noise and Urban Design
Feature: Aleks Danko: Day In Day Out
Feature: Andy Goldsworthy: Everything in the City is Nature
Feature: Architecture and Lyndall Milani's Installations
Feature: Artists and the Mt Leuseur Campaign
Feature: Arts to Ashes
Feature: Artworkers On the Urban Frontier
Feature: Aspects of Earth Building in New Zealand
Feature: Built Form for Well-Being, Not Just Comfort
Feature: Collective Bargaining. Co-op Housing; an Overview
Feature: Community Architecture: High on People Power, Low on Fossil Fuels
Feature: Creating Livable Places
Feature: Designing from the Inside Out: Women, Design and Architecture
Feature: Earth-Sheltered Building using Timber
Feature: Eco-design Conference at RMIT
Feature: Exponential Losses, Collective Guilt: The Work of Jeannie Baker
Feature: Frogs and Serpents: Re-colonising the Suburbs
Feature: Further Reading and Glossary
Feature: Gateways Project
Feature: Getting our Shit Together
Feature: Gilding the Lillipilli
Feature: Hook's Mountain - The Environment as Theatre
Feature: Let There be Light and Power
Feature: Look See. Gnarogin Park
Feature: Material Re-Creation
Feature: Meadows Under the Sea
Feature: Memories of Power
Feature: Memories of Water
Feature: Merz: Tapping the Energy
Feature: Mudflats: A Fertile Breeding Ground for Artists
Feature: Mundaring Community Park
Feature: New Life for Gordonvale
Feature: On Empowering Clients and Collaborative Design Processes
Feature: Places for Souls to Play
Feature: Prospect: Building on its Imagination
Feature: Reading the Land
Feature: Red Gum, Red Light
Feature: Res B: a Design Proposal for Brisbane
Feature: Response to the Climate in the Top End
Feature: Restored to Life with a Bypass
Feature: Science, Art and Mangroves
Feature: Solar Houses: an Introduction
Feature: Supporting Remote Places
Feature: Sustainable Canberra
Feature: The Art of Living
Feature: The Art of Living Sustainably
Feature: The Essential Gift of Ceremonies: Towards a Poetics of Scarcity
Feature: The Re-humanising of Water
Feature: Willmot Playspace Project
Feature: Willunga Garden Village
Feature: Women's Ideal Environments
Feature: Working with Rules
Review: Asunder, and Lindy Lee Painting
Review: Backward Glance and A Sideways Glance
Review: First Australian Jewellery Biennial
Review: First Australian Jewellery Biennial
Review: Gareth Sansom
Review: Juan Davila
Review: Lindy Lee Paintings
Review: Maleness
Review: Possessed
Review: Review of the Year
Review: Subject/ Object
Review: Wildflowers in Art