This thesis examines the ways in which the British media represented the British prime ministerial consorts Denis Thatcher and Cherie Blair: more specifically it looks at how the media changed their practices towards the ...

This research is based on the premise that some existing Christian churches or other related buildings do not always adequately serve the contemporary needs and provide programmes for primarily the young people that occupy ...

For a period of time in the middle of last century the work of leading American abstract artists consistently and repeatedly indicated the use of architectural elements and methods; the stacks of Donald Judd, Fred Sandback’s ...

How we live and what we do in our lives are strongly dependant on how we react and how we respond to situations, conditions and settings. Global change is happening, and it is happening now. Sea levels are rising, earthquakes ...

This thesis explores the everyday life of Brother, a well-known street dweller and local identity, who lives everyday life on a busy street corner in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Brother’s way of doing ‘being ordinary’ ...

Private home ownership, the promise of fertile land and social justice were highly motivational drivers for early migration to New World countries. Escaping the oppressive urban conditions of the industrial age, settlers ...

Austin Mitchell’s Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise is a view of what New Zealanders are seen to aspire to; their own house, on their own large section. But the development and growth patterns that have emerged from this ...

Port cities traditionally developed around protected harbour edges, placing the harbour industries in the centre of the urban context. Over the last century port cities have often evolved away from their port-based industries, ...

For centuries, at least in the western society, architecture has been associated with notions of stasis, timelessness and endurance and these continue to define architecture in the modern society (Croft, 2000; Fox & Kemp, ...

A mental illness is a social disease which is gaining momentum within our society, characterised by a severe conditioning of the mind causing disastrous consequences for people who suffer from this disease. Yet as a mental ...