Floor talk on Rendered Futures: Drawing architecture

To mark the closing weekend of the show, join us for a Curator floor talk inside Rendered Futures: Drawing architecture with curators Kim Paton and Micheal McCabe, joined by a number of contributors to the show.

Kim and Micheal will open the conversation with reflections on the exhibition, before inviting each architectural practitioner to speak to their drawings in the show. Your speakers are John Coop, Bhaveeka Madagammana, Sue Evans, Tessa Forde and Anthony Hōete.

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Kim Paton has been the Director of Objectspace since 2015. Her interest is in interdisciplinary exhibition making across the fields of craft, design, architecture and contemporary art. In 2024 she was awarded the Garvey Cup by Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA in honour of her commitment to supporting architecture and its place in the public realm. Paton has curated and written extensively on object-based art forms.

Michael McCabe is a Filipino-Pākehā designer and educator based in Tāmaki Makaurau. He lectures at AUT Huri te ao hoahoanga and collaborates with public arts organisations, galleries and theatre companies to create engaging, dynamic and socially engaged work.

John Coop is the current Managing Director of Warren and Mahoney, having held this role since early 2018. Raised in North Waitaha Canterbury, he studied architecture at the Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1992–95. Key mentors who have influenced his career include Bruce Edgar, Nick Stanish, Steve McCracken, Cathy Simon, and Chris Wilkinson. He is a Fellow of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects, and is a former Director of Eke Panuku Development Auckland and Chair of the Auckland City Centre Advisory Board. Coop has worked as an architect in Aotearoa New Zealand, California, and London.

Bhaveeka Madagammana is an educator and PhD candidate at the University of Auckland’s Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, and a part of MĀPIHI Māori and Pacific Housing Research Centre. His work centres on the research and mapping of Indigenous architectural and food practices. Recent exhibitions include Violent Legalities at Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi (2020), Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, and Slow Boil at Artspace Aotearoa (2021), Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Sue Evans’ architectural career has been focused on the fabric of the city. She has made a huge contribution to the urban design of significant public spaces in Auckland City for Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Council and, more latterly, management of the design of the national public housing portfolio for Kāinga Ora. For Evans, the most exciting challenge in her work is in finding ways to marry aesthetics with function and cost so that public spaces and buildings can make a real contribution to the life of the cities they inhabit. Evans’ has contributed to the future of design and architecture through teaching and critiquing at the University of Auckland, Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau Auckland University of Technology, and Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka Unitec Institute of Technology.

Tessa Forde is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Forde is a co-director of architecture practice Groupwork Aotearoa, core member of pre:fab platform, co-organiser of the Free School of Architecture, and founder of The Night School. Forde’s research centres on how experimental gathering platforms provide spaces in which new realities can be imagined and deployed to disrupt and reshape the field of architecture. Forde received a Royal Institute of British Architects President’s Medal Commendation for her Master’s thesis, was a finalist in the Architecture + Women NZ Munro Diversity Awards in 2023, and received a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Scholarship to undertake a year of research in Valpara.so Chile in 2024.

Anthony Hōete (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Rānana) is a Professor of Architecture at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland. His academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from UoA, a Master of Architecture from The Bartlett at University College London, and a PhD in Architecture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is a founding Director of the practice WHAT_architecture in London and the property developer Game of Architecture.