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New Zealand exhibition for the 2014 Venice Biennale shows the country’s Pacific architectural roots

Julie Stout, Concept sketch for the New Zealand Exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014. ©Mitchell & Stout Architects Pacific resilience, a Samoan fale. Image courtesy of the New Zealand Exhibition Grierson, Aimer & Draffin, Auckland War Memorial Museum (view towards the Māori court), 1929, Auckland, New Zealand. Photographer: Unknown. Draffin Album 458(2); courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira. Under Pohutukawa at Piha, a house by Herbst Architects. Photo courtesy of the New Zealand Exhibition Shigeru Ban Architects, The Transitional (‘Cardboard’) Cathedral, 2013, Christchurch, New Zealand. Photographer: Patrick Reynolds; ©Patrick Reynolds.

Pacific resilience, a Samoan fale. Image courtesy of the New Zealand Exhibition

Pacific resilience, a Samoan fale. Image courtesy of the New Zealand Exhibition