072hin_THE FIRST MAORI ‘ARCHITECT’

In Sam Jacob’s recent ‘Opinion’ on Dezeen regarding the long intertwined relationship between that of the picturesque and that of the ruin, he called the reader to “Think of the famous illustration by Gustave Doré where Macaulay’s Mäori New Zealander sits on the remains of London Bridge sketching the ruins of St Paul’s, contemplating a lost civilisation.” As an architect who is Maori I had never heard of this illustration and wondered why? TBC… The New Zealander

SAY WHAT_!?

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