100 years/100 books : School of Architecture Centenary, 1917-2017 Library Exhibition Series #2 THE CIVIC Welcome to the second instalment in this series celebrating ‘the architecture book’. Curated by Michael Milojevic, School of Architecture and Planning Professional Teaching Fellow; SarahRead more…
Full marks
University of Auckland Art Collection
NZ Music Month
Paid for in blood: Medical rare books display
Celebrate NZ Music Month with TV and Radio
Open homes: New Zealand domestic architecture
50th anniversary of the Wahine disaster
The ClockTower: a winning design
Resonating through the decades: the From Scratch records
You never know who you’ll meet at university
30th anniversary of Waipapa Marae
Journeys of an historic handpress
Visit the 1920s Takapuna seaside with TV and Radio
School of Architecture and Planning Centenary: 8. Essentiality and Sensibility
From the collections: History serials pass 50-year mark
More than just a container: the Fine Arts Library Artist Books collection
School of Architecture and Planning Centenary: 7. The Technical Detail
Halloween music
School of Architecture and Planning Centenary: 6. Beautiful Theses: Students as Book Designers
Bookmarks XV 2017-2018
100 Years of Architecture and Planning
Towards the Nineties: The Visual Arts Education Symposium recordings, 1985
School of Architecture Centenary: 5. Architecture + Photography
An even finer art index
The tomokanga of Te Herenga Mātauranga Whānui
School of Architecture Centenary: 4. The Glossies
From Crack of Dawn to Croak of Dusk: The Solar Plexus records
School of Architecture Centenary: 3. Observe and Record
Who is Jane Jacobs?
Antonio Salieri
‘The Balloon of the Mind’: Yeats, Donnelly and Cuala Press
School of Architecture Centenary: 2. The Civic
Claude Megson Collection
School of Architecture Centenary
Two displays, two cartoonists: Steve Bell and Frank Dromgoole
Architectural models
Over the summer library staff assessed the student architectural models in the Architecture and Planning Library. This has meant lots of cleaning (dust!) and the removal of those models that had lost material stability and integrity. The remaining survivors ofRead more…
The Cornell Hip Hop Party and Event Flyers collection
Little books
New Zealand prisoners of war 1914-1918
Historic Rangitoto baches
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
The serial collection, Architecture and Planning Library
Sitting pretty
Architects’ tools from the Architecture Archive
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
Art and houses
A selection of books exploring the themes of housing and real estate are on display at the Fine Arts Library from our Main and Special Collections. The selection includes Wanted: Home, an artist book by Meiling Lee documenting house exteriorsRead more…
Architecture Week 2016
Architecture Week begins next week with keynote speaker Stuart Harrison opening with a free talk on Monday 19 September (6pm, AUT University, Sir Paul Reeves Building, Lecture Theatre WG403). An Australian architect, Stuart Harrison writes with local concerns in mindRead more…