DefignTalks

What role does, or should, architecture take in forming healthy communities?

DefignTalks

Show Notes

Pete Bossley (Architect and Director, Bossley Architects), Keni-Duke Hetet (Director of Waka Group Architecture) and Bill McKay, (Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design, Auckland University) talk to host Glenn Murdoch (Theca Architecture) about the role architecture takes, or should take, in forming healthy communities.

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