Dr Deidre Brown   : B Arch (Hons); M Arch (Distinction); Doc Phil Arch

Pae Matua

Tamaki Makaurau Design, Architecture

Ngāpuhi

Professor Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) teaches design and history in the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. Her specialist teaching, supervisory and research interests are in the fields of Māori and Pacific architectural and art history, Māori and Pacific housing and the broader discipline of Indigenous design. She has written several books, including the multi-authored Art in Oceania: A new history (2012) and Māori Architecture (2009), and curated a number of exhibitions in galleries around the country. Deidre has belonged to boards of governance for organisations such as Objectspace, The Physics Room and the Christchurch Arts Centre and she has been a Governor of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and member of the Humanities Panel of the Marsden Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand). She is a fellow of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi , and member of the Māori Trademarks Advisory Committee of the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand.