NZ universities ‘need to teach Māori culture as living heritage’

Many New Zealanders are blind to the Māori architecture around them, says Auckland professor

Architecture courses at New Zealand’s universities should teach students about the living heritage of Māori culture rather than treating it as “something buried” by colonisation, a University of Auckland academic has said.

Deidre Brown, the university’s first Māori professor of architecture, has called for a better understanding of the long-term cultural impacts of British colonial conflicts in NZ.