Auckland Architecture Week 2009

Auckland Architecture Week is an annual celebration that includes exhibitions, movies and discussions covering a range of topics that fit broadly within the field of architecture and the built environment.

One hundred and twenty students from The University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning will compete in "TRANS-FoRM-ers", a competition based on the design and fabrication of "mobile architectures".

Auckland's first ever "architecture convoy", and a structure made out of 2500 condoms will feature as part of The University of Auckland's contribution to the forthcoming event.

"This is an important project for the second year students. They are required to realise something at a large scale that they then must show in public-that requires them to be very resourceful," said Kathy Waghorn, a senior tutor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI).

"As a group initiative, they also need to become skilled at negotiation and collaboration, both useful skills in the training of an architect."