The Architect and the Artists But it was to be

But it was to be many decades before the true power of the waka to inspire a people was realised

with candour and courage

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deeply engaged in both expressive and pragmatic architecture’ — Cathleen McGuigan

The Architect and the Artists But it was to beHow contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused Awarded Best First Work of Illustrated Non fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on twelve New Zealand buildings from churches to houses. Drawing on