Culture, architecture and pā

Information about the architecture of Te Puia, the Māori cultural centre at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua.

Ki te hau kainga: New perspectives on Māori housing solutions

A 2002 report on housing design for Māori, from Housing New Zealand (PDF, 2,990 KB).

Te Hononga

Te Hononga: the Centre for Māori Architecture and Appropriate Technologies is part of the Unitec School of Architecture.

Brown, Deidre. Māori architecture: from fale to wharenui and beyond. Auckland: Raupo, 2009.

Cresswell, John. Māori meeting houses of the North Island. Auckland: PCS Publications, 1977.

Neich, Roger, Painted histories: early Māori figurative painting. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993.

Prickett, Nigel. ‘Houses and house life in prehistoric New Zealand.’ MA thesis, University of Otago, 1974.

Walden, Russell. Voices of silence: New Zealand’s Chapel of Futuna. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1987.