Award-winning podcast about architecture from Aotearoa New Zealand, with your hosts Jeremy Hansen, Natasha Markham, Mat Brown, and Richard Archbold (Arch). Featuring local and international guests.
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Welcome to Episode 074! This is our second interview from Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects In:Situ 2026 + CAA General Assembly conference.
Tash, Mat and Arch spoke with acting New South Wales Government Architect Jillian Hopkins shortly after her keynote on the first day of the conference. Jillian was a key contributor to the recently released Housing Pattern Book, and we discussed how it's used to create and facilitate great housing design, whether Aotearoa needs a Government Architect, and what it takes to make 'fair dinkum' houses.
Our thanks to Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects for arranging our interview with Jillian.
You can learn more about the NSW Pattern Book here - https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-architect-nsw/housing-design/nsw-housing-pattern-book
Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
24 Sept 2026
Episode 073 - InSitu 2026 - Brendan MacFarlane
Welcome to Episode 073! This is our first of three interviews at Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects In:Situ 2026 + CAA General Assembly conference.
Tash, Mat and Arch spoke with Brendan MacFarlane ahead of his keynote talk on the first day of the conference. Brendan is a graduate of SCI-arc and holds a masters from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and in 1998 he and Dominique Jakob founded Jakob+MacFarlane, a Paris based practice with work that’s both formally and regionally expansive. We talked with Brendan about context, metaphors, and how architects do their best work when their 'backs are to the wall'
Our thanks to Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects for arranging our interview with Brendan.
Jakob + MacFarlane - https://jakobmacfarlane.com/en
Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
10 Sept 2026
Episode 072 - Richard Naish - 2026 NZIA Gold Medalist
Welcome to Episode 72! We were very lucky to sit down with founding director of RTA Studio and this year's Gold Medal winner, Rich Naish for a very special chat about what it means to receive the award, his entry into architecture, and the ongoing quest to make something that's "nearly good".
A big thank you to Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects for arranging our interview with Rich, as part of their support of this year's in:situ conference.
Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels
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