Futuna Life Of A Building

Author: Bevin Nick

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  • : 9781776560523
  • : Victoria University Press
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  • : October 2016
  • : 254mm X 222mm
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  • : June 2016
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Barcode 9781776560523
9781776560523

Description

The book also tells the vexed story of the chapel's sale to a developer in 2001 and its subsequent dereliction and, at the eleventh hour, rescue. Since then, the chapel has been transformed from a place of Catholic worship to a non-denominational centre for spiritual, cultural and artistic expression. With essays by Chris Cochran, David Mitchell, Niall McLaughlin, Gregory O'Brien and Nick Bevin and photographs by Paul McCredie and Gavin Woodward, this book takes us into the heart of one of the most dynamic and affecting human-made structures in Oceania.

Awards

Long-listed for Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - Illustrated Non-Fiction 2017.

Author description

NICK BEVIN is the director of Wellington-based Bevin + Slessor Architects, whose contemporary buildings in urban, coastal and rural spaces across New Zealand have won numerous awards. He is a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, and from 2010 he has been Chair of the Friends of the Futuna Charitable Trust.

GREGORY O'BRIEN is the Stout Memorial Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington for 2015-16. Between 1997 and 2009 he was a curator at City Gallery Wellington, where his projects included exhibitions by Ralph Hotere, Rosalie Gascoigne, Laurence Aberhart and emigre architect Ernst Plischke. Recent publications include the poetry collection Whale Years and See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious (both AUP, 2015).