Dr Karamia Müller, MĀPIHI Co-Director

18 April 2024
Professor Anthony Hōete, was featured in Architecture Now as a Royal Society Te Apārangi Fellowship recipient for his advancement of New Zealand and Māori architecture worldwide. 

11 June 2024
Dr Karamia Müller was interviewed by 95bFM about Pacific housing outcomes: supply, quality and affordability 

13 July 2024
Professor Anthony Hoete spoke with RNZ about How Māori could shape Aotearoa’s cities. 

19 July 2024
Professor Anthony Hoete spoke with Te Ao News about How Māori could shape Aotearoa’s cities. 

19 July 2024
Lama Tone, a MĀPIHI research associate, talked to PMN about a stalled Kāinga Ora project which had aimed to improve Pacific housing design. This also featured in the Samoa Observer.

1 August 2024
Professor Anthony Hoete wrote about The Māori City for E Tangata. 

10 September 2024
Professor Deidre Brown and Dr Karamia Müller wrote  Rewi Thompson, the Māori architect who shocked his neighbours. The Guardian, UK.

23 September 2024
MĀPIHI co-director Dr Karamia Müller recently told Rotorua Daily Post that housing being built to a Homestar 6-plus rating was “absolutely vital”. Dr Karamia Müller Rotorua Daily Post

23 September 2024 
Dr Karamia Müller considers the current coalition government’s strategy for addressing the housing supply crisis and questions why we cannot treat housing as a basic human right in Architecture New Zealand.

26 September 2024
MĀPIHI co-director Dr Karamia Müller wrote an opinion piece in the NZ Herald discussing Pacific and Māori housing and MĀPIHI’s priority project areas. Dr Karamia Müller NZ Herald

3 October 2024
MĀPIHI co-director Dr Karamia Müller spoke with 95bFM about Māori and Pacific housing needs and aspirations. Dr Karamia Müller 95bFM

7 October 2024
Dr Karamia Müller spoke with Waatea News about the need to scale up solutions for Māori and Pacific housing. Dr Karamia Müller Waatea News 

11 October 2024 
Professor Deidre Brown spoke with Waatea News about Council reforms for papakāinga developments 

6 November 2024
MĀPIHI co-director Professor Deidre Brown and MĀPIHI’s Anthony Hōete spoke with Te Ao Māori News about the mahi MĀPIHI does. Professors Deidre Brown and Anthony Hōete Te Ao Māori News

28 November 2024
Dr Karamia Müller featured on the Inside Government news, urging faith in social housing solutions. 

Professor Deidre Brown, MĀPIHI Co-Director

20 January 2025
Professor Deidre Brown was interviewed by Architecture Australia, with the Aboriginal architect and academic Carroll Go-Sam, on Creating space: The rise of Indigenous recognition and representation in architecture.

3 February 2025
Dr Karamia Müller was featured in Architecture Now, Future research leaders receive support from the Royal Society Te Apārangi and Professor Deidre Brown was interviewed for the Nights programme, Radio New Zealand National for whakatauki of the week.

19 February 2025
Dr Karamia Müller was a guest on Fresh Moni, a Pacific-led financial advice podcast, where she discussed Pacific housing equity and wellbeing. See the full interview on YouTube.

18 March 2025
Following the release of Statistics New Zealand figures, Dr Karamia Müller spoke to the University press of the “heartbreaking” drop in the number of Pacific people who own their own homes.

24 March 2025
MĀPIHI doctoral candidate Bhaveeka Madagammana wrote an opinion piece for Newsroom on Māori food sovereignty. The article was republished in the Royal Society Te Apārangi and Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects weekly newsletters. See also this LinkedIn video.

Dr James Miller, MĀPIHI Strategic Appointment

11 April 2025
The University News featured the news that Indigenous Hawaiian architect and academic Dr James Miller will soon cross the globe to start a new role at Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland to take the reins on Pacific Housing research.

21 April 2025
Dr James Miller, MĀPIHI’s strategic appointment, was featured in an article in Tangata Pasifika+. Hawaiian Architect Joins Māori and Pacific Housing Research Centre at University of Auckland. Architecture New Zealand also ran a piece on James.

7 May 2025
Professor Deidre Brown featured in a story about how she discovered Gerhard Rosenberg’s papers, published in NZ Listener on 10 May – Whare into the future: The émigré architect who championed Māori housing. This was picked up by Waatea news and Stuff on 28 May: Rosenberg’s taonga: He escaped Nazis – now his plans for Māori homes found in box

26 May 2025
MĀPIHI PhD Researcher Savannah Brown wrote a piece on barriers to traditional Māori building practices and making a case for these practises to become part of the national building code Allowing a Māori solution to the Māori housing crisis

24 July 2025
Dr Karamia Müller, spoke to Dale Husband on Waatea news, calling for deeper investigation into the underlying causes of this crisis: As homelessness surges in Aotearoa, pressing questions remain unanswered

1 August 2025
University News included an article on MĀPIHI doctoral candidate Paraone Luiten-Apirana’s whakairo Horotiu, representing a kaitiaki of the same name, which now rests in the ceiling of the City Rail Link’s new Te Waihorotiu Station.

13 August 2025
Professor Deidre Brown and Dr Karamia Müller contributed an opinion piece about homelessness that was then published in The Post, The Press and Waikato Times.

20 August 2025
Dr Karamia Müller was interviewed by PMN about the impact of recent housing reforms on Pacific families: Pacific families risk being left out of housing reforms – academic.

30 September 2025
Professor Deidre Brown joined Carroll Go-Sam to talk to Architecture Australia about the progress of indigenous recognition and representation in architecture across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand:
Who, or what, defines Indigenous architecture today?