2024 is Prof Deidre Brown’s Year!

All congratulations to Prof Deidre Brown for being awarded the Gold Medal of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects for 2023 (announced in 2024). In its citation, the NZIA emphasised that Deidre was the first Indigenous woman to head a school of architecture, a position she held at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau from 2019 to mid-2021. Congratulations, too, to Deidre on the completion of her new book, Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art, a major volume co-authored with Ngarino Ellis and the late Jonathan Mane Wheoki, and published by Auckland University Press. For more information, click here.