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Haurongo: Beaven, Peter Jamieson

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Peter Beaven on NZonScreen

Peter Beaven's work features in David Mitchell's 1984 television series The elegant shed, and Beaven talks about his philosophies of architecture in Where have all the wowsers gone? (1972).

Rārangi pukapuka

Beaven, P. ‘South Island Architecture’. Royal Institute of British Architects Journal 74, September 1967: 375–82

Beaven, P. ‘The Post Colonial World’. New Zealand Architect 2, 1982: 3–15

Beaven, P. Peter Beaven, architect. Blenheim, 2016

Lochhead, Ian, ed. Peter Beaven – architect: buildings and projects. Exhibition catalogue, School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, 1995.

Stacpoole, J. and P. Beaven. New Zealand art: architecture 1820–1970. Wellington, 1972

Walsh, J. ‘Canterbury Pilgrim’. Houses New Zealand 11, Spring 2009: 75–99

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ian J. Lochhead. 'Beaven, Peter Jamieson', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/231682/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).