HomeGround

The story of a building that changes lives

Simon Wilson, Deidre Brown, Karamia Muller , Mark Smith

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Massey University Press
15 December 2022

Individual architects & architectural firms; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; Homelessness; Social welfare & social services

A celebration of HomeGround, the Auckland City Mission's unique and visionary wrap-around social services complex, which opened in early 2022 after being a dream for over 20 years.

By: Simon Wilson, Deidre Brown, Karamia Muller
Photographs by: Mark Smith
Imprint: Massey University Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 200mm,
ISBN: 9781991016041
ISBN 10: 1991016042
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Foreword Introduction: Love is patient, love is kind 1. 'Something enormously big and hairy' 2. A better way to spend a million dollars 3. Where everybody knows your name 4. Inside the big house 5. It started with a dream 6. The Goldilocks solution 7. 'A different set of names' 8. The politics of giving 9. Plywood for giants Epilogue: Christmas at the Mission HomeGround: An architecture of place Haeata He tangata - The tenants Nga kaimahi - The people Te whare - The building Te kari whare - The garden Te hoahoa - The plans HomeGround project team, Donors, Auckland City Mission board members, About the contributors, Acknowledgments, Index

Simon Wilson is one of New Zealand's best-known journalists. The former editor of Cuisine and Metro magazines and Auckland editor for The Spinoff, he is now a senior writer at The New Zealand Herald. He is a regular writer on urban and social issues. Professor Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu) is an art historian and architectural lecturer. She is head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland and a governor of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, a member of the Maori Trademarks Advisory Committee of the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand, and a member of the Humanities Panel of the Marsden Fund. In 2021 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi. Dr Karamia Muller is a Pacific academic who lectures at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. Her research specialises in the meaningful 'indigenisation' of creative practices and design methodologies invested in building futures resistant to inequality.