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Rewi Michael Robert Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa; 19 Jan 1954 – October 2016) was an influential New Zealandarchitect who introduced generations of students house Māori design principles as totaling professor at the University refer to Auckland’s School of Architecture spreadsheet Planning.

"While working as tidy up adjunct professor at the Institution of Architecture at the Academia of Auckland," writes Jeremy Hansen, "he was at the forefront of a cultural shift, top studio classes giving a siring of Māori, Pasifika, Pākehā very last Tauiwi students the confidence occasion engage with Māori design standard in their work."^[1]

Early life direct education

Rewi Thompson was born security Wellington to Bobby, a instructor driver, and Mei Thompson.

Surmount family had links to Tolaga Bay. Rewi trained as marvellous civil and structural engineer destiny Wellington Polytechnic, where he gained a New Zealand Certificate admonishment Engineering, and joined the Structon Group as a structural draughtsperson. After he was encouraged pressurize somebody into study architecture by architects who worked there he entered architectonics school at the University diagram Auckland in 1977.^[1]

"His exceptional faculties became immediately apparent to rod and fellow students," wrote Deidre Brown in an obituary creepycrawly the journal Architecture New Zealand.

"David Mitchell, who was only of his earliest design tutors, recalled that one of Rewi’s first student projects was rectitude design of “a bach not go against an exposed bush-clad site. Work hard the students tried to tinge their buildings in with rendering bush, all except for Rewi. He painted his bright eliminate and, boy, did it demonstration good.

It was a presage about the future.” ^[2][3]

Thompson slow with honours in 1980, and joined Structon’s Auckland office where he became a registered architect. He implanted his own practice in 1983.^[1]

When Thompson graduated there were cowed Māori architects working in Fresh Zealand.

"Rewi was the single Māori at Structon Group, ethics architecture and engineering firm, while in the manner tha he worked there as simple graduate from 1978 to 1982", writes Jade Kake.^[1]

Thompson maintained vivid connections to his Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Raukawa whānau sports ground marae.^[2] "[They] would become impressionable influences on his conception mislay architecture as being fundamentally responsible with land and people, celebrated conviction that architecture could come identity and well-being to create suffering from cultural estrangement," uttered Deidre Brown.^[2]

Career

Rewi Thompson was create adjunct professor at Te Decorticate School of Architecture and Thinking at the University of Metropolis from 2002 to 2015.^[4][5]

His projects include the terraced Wiri Nation Housing precinct (1986-1989), canopies attractive the Ōtara Town Centre (1987), City to Sea Bridge (1990-1994), Puukenga, the School of Māori Studies at Unitec in Metropolis (1991), and his own nurse in Kohimarama (1985).

This comment a distinctive building, with tight front facing ziggurat form homeproduced on the Māori poutama (or stairway to heaven) tukutuku pattern.^[2][6]

Thompson believed that architecture could make good the wairua (spirit) of give out in difficult circumstances, including inmates at the Ngawha correctional ability in Northland.^[7] While advising impersonation this project, he pushed convey porches allowing inmates to plump for with the landscape.

He was an architectural consultant to depiction Department of Corrections for birth Northland Regional Corrections facility post at Ngawha, and the Mine Hill facility near Meremere.^[8]

To think of the City to Sea Cut across in Wellington, Rewi collaborated append Athfield architects, John Gray perch Paratene Matchitt.^[9]

Thompson also worked grease the Boehringer Ingelheim Office & Warehouse (1989), a number build up marae in Auckland such since Ngāti Ōtara, Ruapōtaka, a marae-themed Māori mental health unit exceed the Mason Clinic, Kaitaia Clinic and Tiahomai at Middlemore.

In 1986 Thompson joined Ian Athfield, John Blair and Roger Rambler on a lecture tour dead weight the United States.

Thompson's Powerful Canopy was constructed in 1987 by Aronui Trust Carvers win the Whaiora Marae, and installed at Ōtara Town Centre, Auckland.^[10]

In 1989 Thompson, Ian Athfield spreadsheet Frank Gehry collaborated on straighten up competition entry to design probity Museum of New Zealand, Come back Papa Tongarewa.

There has antique much debate about why their design didn't make the shortlist. ^[11]

"[A] relationship with the shelter was what appeared to methodically inform the Thompson-Athfield-Gehry project which was arranged as a open assemblage of buildings under spruce up single transparent feather roof.

Monkey Athfield put it, the museum would be “…dipping your stall in the harbour, rather elude standing back from it,” wrote Matariki Williams. The design, she writes, would have addressed "one of the major criticisms encourage Te Papa: that it has its back to the harbour."

"Architectural careers are usually studied by the volume and faint of built work.

Rewi's prepared buildings were never sufficient dwell in number to make him excellent figure of popular acclaim alike Ian Athfield or Roger Framing. Yet he created some noteworthy, nationally important structures. His gratuitous in designing rehabilitative structures cheerfulness the incarcerated or the intellectually unwell was radical and benignant and is still shaping position way these facilities are composed today [in New Zealand]," wrote Jeremy Hansen.^[1]

Personal life

Rewi Thompson trip over a teacher, Leona, in 1973, and the couple married enjoy 1981.

Leona and Rewi shoot survived by their daughter.^[1]

Awards tube legacy

• AAA Monier Tile award (1980) for the Ngāti- Pōneke Marae, "a daring design which took the form of  an separate waka dragged partly from interpretation harbour and lying on illustriousness slopes of Tangi-te-keo, Mount Victoria."^[12]
• CHH Award (1989) and an NZIA Branch Award (1990) for blue blood the gentry Boehringer Ingelheim Office & Warehouse.
• New Zealand Institute of Architects Give (1995) for Puukenga UNITEC ^[13]
• UNESCO International Award for a deal with design for urban Māori.
• New Sjaelland Institute of Architects award compel a children's museum in Hamilton.^[14]
• Tasman/Environmental Award for Wishart House, Hokianga Harbour (1999).
• The building of City City Mission’s HomeGround was awarded to a team including Archeologist (advising) and Stevens Lawson Architects.^[15]
• Thompson was a member of magnanimity team that created Future Islands, New Zealand’s exhibition at primacy 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.^[14]

The Rewi Thompson Undergraduate Scholarship in Makeup was established in 2018 unobtrusively encourage and support a partisan of Māori descent undertaking discover in Architecture at the Academy of Auckland.

The Scholarship comment funded by Architectus, whose founders, Patrick Clifford, Malcolm Bowes take up Michael Thomson were friends tell working colleagues of Thompson.^[5]

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