Sustaining Māori culture through the representation of tribal history in architecture : Tirohia - Te Marae KārewaResearch question: Can architecture through the contemplation and representation of tribal history, encourage cultural identity, and help to ensure the sustainability of the culture for future generations?

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Sustaining Māori culture through the representation of tribal history in architecture : Tirohia - Te Marae KārewaResearch question: Can architecture through the contemplation and representation of tribal history, encourage cultural identity, and help to ensure the sustainability of the culture for future generations?

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This project employs knowledge of tribal history to inform the design of a community at Tirohia, a rural marae belonging to the people of Ngāti Hako in Hauraki. Ngāti Hako have lived in Hauraki for nearly one thousand years and plan to continue to occupy the area for the next thousand years. Ngāti Hako have an interesting history that originally saw them as a prolific tribe throughout the Hauraki rohe (tribal area). They were then diminished and assigned to living in the swamplands. This wet ...

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Masters

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2013

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Nicholls, Naeri Robin

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2506

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Ngāti Hako / TIrohia Marae / Hauraki Māori / Te Kotahitanga Marae – Tirohia / sustainable architecture / tribal settlement / cultural identity / Architectural Design / Hoahoanga whare / Kaitiakitanga / Whare nui / Papakāinga

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