Interviews

What motivates the best architects? Find out in our interview collection.

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Te Whare Hononga by Tennent Brown Architects. Photo: Andy Spain.

Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects' interview collection provides insights into the lives and careers of some of the top architects from New Zealand and abroad. Learn about what inspires them, what they’ve learned and how their design philosophies and motivations have evolved over time.

Third Studio

Third Studio

We catch up with the F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship 2023 recipients, Mitra Homolja and Ellie Tuckey.

F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship Interview: Third Studio

Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown

Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown

Michael Moore-Jones in conversation with the 2024 Gold Medallists.

Interview: Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown

Professor Deidre Brown

Professor Deidre Brown

Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake in conversation with the 2023 Gold Medallist.

Professor Deidre Brown

Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson

Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson

Our 2022 Gold Medallists talk about honing their craft on beautiful houses, their passion for social and public architecture and being obsessive in complementary ways.

Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson in conversation

Stevens Lawson Architects turn 20

Stevens Lawson Architects turn 20

An interview with Nicholas and Gary on two decades in practice.

Interview: 20 years of Stevens Lawson Architects

Julie Stout

Julie Stout

The recipient of the 2021 Gold Medal, tells Jeremy Hansen about architecture, activism, her long partnership with David Mitchell and the weight of being the first woman to win the award.

Julie Stout in conversation

Andrew Patterson

Andrew Patterson

The 2018 Gold Medallist in conversation with John Walsh

Andrew Patterson, Gold Medal interview

Roger Walker

Roger Walker

Few figures in the history of New Zealand architecture are as synonymous with a place and time as is Roger Walker with Wellington in the 1960s and ‘70s. John Walsh sits down with the architect and goes back to the beginning.

Roger Walker in conversation

Charles Walker

Charles Walker

The Creative Director of Future Islands, the New Zealand exhibition at the Biennale Architettura 2016, discusses the exhibition with John Walsh.

On Future Islands

Stuart Gardyne

Stuart Gardyne

From Wilton to the Wharewaka – and much more besides. Stuart Gardyne, the 2015 NZIA Gold Medallist, discusses what drew him to architecture and his approach to practice in this conversation with John Walsh.

Stuart Gardyne in conversation

David Mitchell

David Mitchell

The Creative Director of the New Zealand exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, sits down with John Walsh to discuss sailing, modernism and the consciousness of a Pacific tradition of architecture in New Zealand.

Venice Biennale interview: David Mitchell

Patrick Clifford

Patrick Clifford

‘I want to be an architect, not some guy driving around the place trying to find the next job.’ 2014 Gold Medallist Patrick Clifford talks to John Walsh.

Patrick Clifford in conversation

Pip Cheshire

Pip Cheshire

2013 Gold Medallist Pip Cheshire talks surfing, the CIA and civic architecture with John Walsh.

In conversation Pip Cheshire

Peter Beaven

Peter Beaven

In 2009, Peter Beaven was interviewed by John Walsh for Houses magazine.

Interview: Peter Beaven

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