News: Albert L. Refiti named as Professor
We are thrilled to announce that Lealiʻifano Albert Refiti has been promoted to Professor in AUT’s School of Art and Design.
Principal Investigator on the Artefacts of Relations project, Albert L. Refiti, gave an Ockham lecture at Objectspace, ‘What is Pacific Architecture?’. Albert shared his understanding of the prehistory of Pacific architecture within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa and Oceania and then the recent history of this architecture in Aotearoa and the Pacific. Albert discussed the main elements at the core of Pacific architecture and how and why traditional forms have persisted and re-emerged in recent times.
Albert’s research leads into the curation of an exhibition at Objectspace, opening in December. The exhibition will consider architect and academic Mike Austin’s slide archive, exploring Pacific architecture through Austin's travel around the Moana spanning thirty years.
Read more about Albert and the Ockham Lecture series here, and watch Albert’s lecture here.
Image by Albert.
