The Architectural Centre has an archival collection, held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, and the Centre’s Design Review magazine is also available to view online.
The Design Review was a regular publication made by the Centre from 1948 to 1954. Editions have been digitised by the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection ~ Te Pūkikotuhi o Aotearoa, hosted by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
The Centre holds copy right of a significant collection of post-war architectural photography. Somes of these are available through DigitalNZ. A book about the collection was published in Justine Clark and Paul Walker. Looking for the Local : Architecture and the New Zealand Modern. Victoria University Press, 2000.
A history of the Centre has been publish as Julia Gatley and Paul Walker. Vertical Living : The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington. Auckland University Press, 2014.
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