Over Labour Weekend from Friday 24 October to Sunday 26 October, faculty alumni, past and present staff and partners and supporters are gathering to celebrate its half century with a gala dinner, as well as an exhibition showcase and symposium featuring illustrious keynote speakers and panellists.
Special guests include past staff member:
- Mark Burry, best known for his decades’ long role as senior architect and researcher at Barcelona’s Basilica de la Sagrada Familia
And graduates:
- Alan Bibby, an award-winning creative director whose work spans commercials, fashion films and music videos for global artists such as Ariana Grande and Stevie Wonder
- Architect Claire Sharpe who oversaw construction of new corporate headquarters for technology giant Apple in California
- Urban designer Skye Duncan who as executive director of the New York-based Global Designing Cities Initiative, works with mayors and their civic team to reimagine and redesign city streets
- Leading voice in contemporary architecture, Dr Thomas Daniell, who is Principal Architect and Professor of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism at Kyoto University
- Robbie van Dam, making a name for himself in conservation circles with product designs that have revolutionised the pest control industry.
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation, Professor Robyn Phipps, says the celebratory long weekend event is an opportunity for anyone associated with the School of Architecture and the School of Design Innovation to reflect, reconnect and acknowledge 50 years at the heart of Wellington’s creative and technology community.
“Our 50th anniversary is a wonderful chance to celebrate together, to take stock, to remember our friends and people and events, and to look to the future.”
Current faculty students are represented too, with their End of Year Exhibition being staged in the Te Aro campus, coinciding with the Paparahi— Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation 50th Anniversary Exhibition highlighting the work of some of our high achieving alumni.
Paparahi — Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation’s 50th Anniversary is hosted at the University’s Te Aro campus, 139 Vivian St, between Friday 24 October and Sunday 26 October.
The Paparahi Exhibition and adjacent End of Year Student Exhibition is being staged there between 24 October and 14 November.