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Urban Design begins with whakapapa |
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 The March-April 2006 issue of Architecture New Zealand
includes an article on Karaka Bay setting the architecture within the
context of whakapapa.
Simon Devitt took the photographs.
www.tony-watkins.com/content/view/123/203/
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Slice of Life |
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 Along with Akio and Kazuko Hayashi and Helen Momota, Tony was a judge for the recent North Hokianga Photographic Competition. The Awards were presented in Village Arts, Kohukohu, on 31 March 2006. The Judges Citation and images of the postcards now available for purchase may be found at www.kohukohu.com
www.tony-watkins.com/content/view/135/77/
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A Watkins-Slye Family Reunion |
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 Ralph Fletcher Watkins
www.tony-watkins.com/content/view/59/206/
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Coromandel Easter Exhibition 2006 |
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 It is now nineteen years since Eugene O'Sullivan organised the first Ikon exhibition in the Methodist Mission Chapel in Auckland. Every year since then the Coromandel Group have gathered together again to share their wonderful pottery, carvings and paintings. The opening this year was on 8 April 2006 in Hauraki House, followed by the customary pot-luck dinner at Tom and Wailin's.
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Easter Sunday Unveilings |
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 Unveilings for Ihapera Ruamamao Pape, Tony's great great grandmother (who married Robert Henry Hardiman), and Harriet Emma Diamond-Ogilvy, her great grand daughter, took place at Ripeka Tapu, Rangi Point, on 16 April 2006.
www.tony-watkins.com/content/view/126/74/
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Learn by Doing |
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Thought for the month...
Urban Design is the art of rearranging the world
so that we do not have to experience it.
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"Vernacular-Architecture for Agenda 21 and RMA" now reprinted |
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 Due to popular demand the book
"Vernacular - an Architecture for Agenda 21
and the Resource Management Act"
was reprinted in August 2005.
A limited number of copies are available from
Parsons Bookshop, Wellesley Street, Auckland.
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Piglet features on BBC World News |
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 Piglet featured on BBC World News in March 2005.
Cameraman Olaf Wiig survived a kidnap drama in Gaza in August 2006.
Piglet's book “Piglet the Great of Karaka Bay”
is still available from a bookshop near you.
Now reduced to only NZ$20.
It would make an ideal birthday or Christmas present.
Send presents for Piglet to the Tree House.
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Montana Award Winning 'Pohutukawa and Rata', and Piglet |
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 Philip Simpson’s book on Pohutukawa and Rata
was launched at Te Papa on 9 November 2005 and in Auckland two days later.
It features Ian Town’s watercolour
of Piglet at Karaka Bay along with the Karaka Bay house
nestling among the pohutukawa.
Philip's book won the 2006 Montana Award for Environment/Non-fiction.
Congratulations Philip.
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Karaka Bay as slow theatre in "Exquisite Apart" |
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 “Exquisite Apart” is still available at bookstores.
It features many wonderful photographs of
architecture without people, and one lonely photograph
of people without architecture. For an explanation read
Dorita Hannah’s essay on architecture as slow theatre.
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Dogs banned from Tahuna Torea Bird Sanctuary |
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 A decision in August 2005 has set aside Tahuna Torea
as a safe haven for both birds and people,
with dogs completely banned from the sanctuary.
The next step is to establish a network of coastal walkways
where people can take their birds for a walk
without being molested by dogs.
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World Habitat Day and the Kauri Festival both focused on Kohukohu Library |
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 To celebrate 2005 as the Year of the Built Environment
Kohukohu hosted an open day tour of kauri buildings. It began at the Library,
which was the New Zealand focus for United Nations World Habitat Day 2004.
The Library was developed in response to
Jaime Lerner’s “Celebration of Cities” competition.
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Tony was in Tokyo for the UIA Council Meeting |
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 The highlight of 2005 was spending a week in Tokyo
staying with Akio and Kazuko to attend the
International Union of Architects Work Programme Meeting
and the UIA Council Meeting.
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