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Thermal insulation required in NZ homes
Early European-style timber frame construction was not as effective as traditional Māori methods at keeping the heat in buildings. Specified levels of thermal insulation were not required by law until 1978.
Whatiwhatihoe in 1884
Whatiwhatihoe, the Maori King's home, 1884
Wharenui scene
Wharenui at a marae in  Mangere, 1966.
Parihaka
Parihaka was New Zealand's largest Maori community by 1881. Its prophets attracted followers from around the country
A home of one's own - life in the 20th century
New Zealanders have called many structures home. Some have been solid and permanent: kauri villas set in lawns and gardens, row houses on cramped Dunedin sections, sprawling state house communities in Otara, mock-Tudor mansions with three-car garages in Remuera, penthouse apartments in inner-city Wellington
Houses for rural Maori
A house built for a Maori farmer in Reureu (Wanganui District), financed from a state loan advanced for Maori land development in the 1930s
Maori housing street plan
In this plan for the Maori housing settlement at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt (c. 1947), houses are clustered around a marae, with the Waiwhetu Stream in the foreground. The complex subsequently built closely resembled this plan.
Maori state house plans
In recent years attempts have been made to accommodate Maori cultural values in the design of state housing
Outside the mainstream - state housing in New Zealand
Many of us associate the beginning of state housing with the hipped-roof cottages built by the first Labour government of the 1930s and 40s. But the origin of state housing has much earlier roots.
Building families - state housing in New Zealand
An essential aim of state housing was to provide suburban homes for families, a place where children could grow up in safe and spacious surroundings, away from the dangers of the inner city. This guided state housing policy from the beginning.
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