‘Experiment in Housing’ archive footage

Watch as Group Architects build their Second House at Takapuna, and visitors look at the completed First House.

Excerpt from ‘Experiment in Housing’, Weekly Review 455 1950, National Film Unit (1941–89), New Zealand.
Digitised footage courtesy of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Black and white photo of two children playing on the floor in a big room with a view of other houses and the harbour.

Modern Living: Design in 1950s New Zealand

The 1952 Auckland exhibition Art and Design introduced New Zealanders to a vision for a more equal, happier way of life that grew from the devastation of World War II. Modern Living offers a lens into this ground-breaking exhibition, and an exciting era of new design in Aotearoa.

Closed

22 Aug 2020 – 26 Apr 2021

Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga

On the necessity for architecture: The manifesto of the Architecture Group

Read the Group Architects published manifesto reproduced here.

‘Experiment in Housing’ archive footage

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