The Collection

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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