Bonnie Jade Kake is a New Zealand Māori architectural designer of Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa and Whakatōhea iwi. She specialises in designing communities and housing based on a traditional model of living known as papakāinga.[1]
Jade Kake | |
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| Born | Bonnie Jade Kake Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland, Unitec Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Architectural designer |
| Awards | Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing, Munro Diversity Award |
| Practice | Matakohe Architecture |
Biography
editKake was born in Australia to a New Zealand Māori mother and a Dutch father. She grew up in an eco-community called Billen Cliffs, which her parents had founded, in rural northern New South Wales. As a child, she frequently visited her mother's family and land near Whangārei. Kake completed a degree in architectural design at the University of Queensland in 2009, followed by a short course in carpentry at a TAFE (a Technical and Further Education college).[2][3]
In her early 20s, Kake moved to Auckland to work for Rau Hoskins and his design firm, designTRIBE.[1] From 2013 to 2015 Kake studied for a master's degree in architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology.[3]
In 2018, Kake established her own business, Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, in Whangārei, which speclalises in supporting Māori communities to develop their land.[3] Kake is also a lecturer in the School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology; she researches and teaches on decolonisation of architecture and urban design, the re-establishment of papakāinga, and the development of design methods to support Māori sovereignty.[3] In 2019 she published a book describing the resurgence of papakāinga.[4]
Awards and recognition
editIn 2018 and 2019, Kake won Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing for her essays on Rāpaki Marae and Ruapekapeka. In 2019, she received a Michael King Emerging Māori Writers Residency.[5]
In 2020, Kake won the Munro Diversity Award at the Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards.[6] In 2021, she received an award from the New Zealand Society of Authors to support her research into the life and legacy of Rewi Thompson.[7]
Publications
edit- Kake, J. (2023). Checkerboard Hill. Wellington: Huia Publishers.
- Hansen, J. & Kake, J. (2023). Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere. Wellington: Massey University Press.
- Kake J. (2019). Rebuilding the kāinga: lessons from te ao hurihuri. Bridget Williams Books.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "Jade Kake wants to reinvent how we live". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Husband, Dale (5 October 2019). "Jade Kake: Māori by design". E-Tangata. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Jade Kake". academics.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Rebuilding the Kāinga – BWB Bridget Williams Books". www.bwb.co.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Cox, Elizabeth (2022). Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. p. 274. ISBN 9781991016348.
- ^ "Awards / Press". matakohe architecture + urbanism. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "$25,000 Writers' Award for 2021 has been awarded to writer, architectural designer, and housing advocate, Jade Kake". www.copyright.co.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Rebuilding the kāinga : lessons from te ao hurihuri | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2023.