How to be an Architect now? Guest lecturer – Patrick Kennedy, Kennedy Nolan
Patrick Kennedy joined this year’s New Zealand Architecture Awards jury as guest judge from Naarm Melbourne. Twenty-five years ago, he and Rachel Nolan founded Kennedy Nolan, which has become a highly awarded, carbon-neutral practice. Their work spans private residential, multi-residential, education, hospitality and commercial projects, all informed by the optimistic tenets of modernism and designed to support and reinforce relationships and connection.
As a practice, Patrick says the most compelling question they ask themselves is “How can you be an Architect now? “We are still working out how we respond to place and our unresolved relationship to it. And we are still asking how best to respond to the climate catastrophe. Always, we are vitally interested in the relationship of humans to space, colour, light and form and how these contribute positively to our lives and, collectively, to our cities. We remain interested in the way architecture both inspires and provokes memory and we look for ways to interpret the past but also search for the elusive new, for a genuinely creative moment. How do we do all these things at the same time? How do we navigate this tricky synthesis? How to be an architect now?”
Patrick has served as a juror for the Australian Institute of Architects and on numerous design competitions and awards programmes. He and Rachel regularly contribute to discourse, research and publications on issues such as climate change, housing affordability, reconciliation, adaptive reuse and education. Through the Robin Boyd Foundation, they aim to provoke and lead fearless dialogue on Australian architecture and design.
With thanks to the generous support of our sponsor, APL.
10 CPD Points (Design)
Friday 22 November
12:00pm
Viaduct Events Centre, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Ticket price - Free
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