TY - JOUR AU - Linzey, Kate PY - 2005/10/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Constructing Education: 1961-69 JF - Architectural History Aotearoa JA - aha VL - 2 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.26686/aha.v2i0.6707 UR - https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/aha/article/view/6707 SP - 10-22 AB - <p><span style="left: 165.777px; top: 172.941px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.11221);">The 1960s were a time of great change and growth in New Zealand's tertiary eduction sector, and the u</span><span style="left: 780.957px; top: 172.941px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.10668);">niversity</span><span style="left: 833.134px; top: 172.941px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.10988);">-based discipline of architecture was in no way exempt </span><span style="left: 83.7622px; top: 190.693px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(0.998349);">from this progress. In response to the Parry Report of 1959-</span><span style="left: 445.492px; top: 190.693px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.02112);">1960, the New Zealand government passed the 1961 Universities Act, which dissolved the federated University of New </span><span style="left: 83.7622px; top: 208.796px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.09812);">Zealand. This </span><span style="left: 172.158px; top: 208.796px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.11253);">Act opened </span><span style="left: 244.568px; top: 208.796px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.10821);">the way for the independence of the four universities of Auckland, Victoria, Canterbury and Otago, and the two allied agricul</span><span style="left: 992.51px; top: 208.796px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.0974);">tural colleges of Massey and </span><span style="left: 83.7622px; top: 226.898px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.11683);">Lincoln. Under the federated u</span><span style="left: 271.898px; top: 226.898px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.10742);">niversity system, Auckland University College had been the centre of ar</span><span style="left: 702.49px; top: 226.898px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.11859);">chitectural training, and had delivered extramural course through c</span><span style="left: 1104.69px; top: 226.898px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.1023);">olleges in </span><span style="left: 83.7622px; top: 244.65px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.0581);">the other centres. As the "disproportionate number" of extramural and part</span><span style="left: 550.924px; top: 244.65px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.04159);">-time study had been criticisms levelled by the Parry Report, it was obvious that another School of </span><span style="left: 83.7622px; top: 262.753px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.08749);">Arc</span><span style="left: 105.777px; top: 262.753px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.01924);">hitecture would now be required, but where? Ever an argumentative association, members of the New Zealand Institute of Architects engaged in a lively debate on the choice, </span><span style="left: 83.7622px; top: 280.505px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.04329);">positing Victoria University in Wellington, and Canterbury University in Christchurch, as the major contenders. By the end of the decade university</span><span style="left: 991.809px; top: 280.505px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.06077);">-based architectural training </span><span style="left: 83.7622px; top: 298.607px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.03894);">would expand at both Auckland and (the new) Wellington Schools, New Zealand's first PhD in Architecture would be conferred on </span><span style="left: 889.924px; top: 298.607px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.00878);">Dr John Dickson, and many of the ca</span><span style="left: 1116.4px; top: 298.607px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(0.983933);">reers of </span><span style="left: 83.7487px; top: 316.71px; font-size: 13.4893px; font-family: serif; padding: 0px; transform: scaleX(1.0957);">architects and architectural academics who went on to construct the discipline as it is today, had begun. </span></p> ER -