The Auckland School: Celebrating the centenary of the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning

Abstract

The University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning is such a mouthful it’s no wonder it is commonly abbreviated. But “The Auckland School” is not just convenient shorthand; it’s a sobriquet that expresses affection and denotes distinctiveness. And that’s fair enough: the school is the alma mater of a majority of this country’s architects, it does have a particular character, and for nearly half of its existence it had no local peer. The school has a lot of history, exactly a hundred years’ worth, in fact, and that’s an anniversary that was duly acknowledged in The Auckland School: Celebrating the Centenary of the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning, an exhibition at the university’s Gus Fisher Gallery.