Digital cartoons published in Architecture New Zealand

Date: 2008

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005261

Description: Shows in eleven small cameos an architect struggling through the stages of bringing a building to fruition in an aquatic metaphor. It begins with his climbing the ladder to the high diving board as he accepts the brief, conceiving the design as he poises to dive, spiralling while doing working drawings, hanging on to the board grimly while awaiting the Quantity Surveyor's report, flipping around in the air during contract negotiations, hitting the water with a great splash as the contract is completed, having trouble swimming in sinc during construction, arriving at the shallow end at completion, and at last collapsing on the pool edge wondering about the next project, standing up and staggering to the ladder to repeat the whole process. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0029624

Description: Shows a series of instructions on 'How to build Australian'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0030284

Description: Shows a waiter asking a couple "Are you ready to order your home...??". The male replies "We've decided on the oil drum on a berm please". The woman adds "The Ford Escot on blocks looks a bit expensive". The waiter asks "and the sides and specials?", to which the couple are confused, so the waiter adds "Well there are the greens... solar water, photo voltaics with a sprinkling of environmental management and care... that sort of faff... but that's beyond your budget...". The couple asks "and the other side dishes?". The waiter replies "Well, of course we have... surveying, RMA, ticket clippers, real estate fees, planning consultants, consent fees, GST, OSH scaffolding, peer review, peer review of peer reviews, LBPs, overpriced materials, slopping bureaucracy, development contributions, arborists, drain inspections, earthquake hysteria, service connections, HI conservation, geotech, careless development, weathering hysteria, detention tanks, producers statement collections, delays, bureaucractic aggression, PS4s, overdesign, unco-ordination". The man replies "Sorry then we'll flag the side orders..." The waiter kicks them out and tells them "Then you're screwed". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025926

Description: Cartoon depicts reasons to be cheerful about being an architect, and reasons to be glum about that same career choice. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0026519

Description: Comprises a multi-panel cartoon indicating etiquette to be shown to clients by members of the New Zealand Architects Association. While light-hearted, the message is spelt out: 'A good test is to put yourself into your client's shoes. How would you feel...?' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024036

Description: An architect or urban planner presents a 'perfect urban scheme' only to have it disappear into a tunnel then emerge unrecognisable. Various interested parties manipulate the plans leaving the man to despair as they alter his vision and remove his signature buildings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024761

Description: With the full title being 'Affordable housing...where architects, governments, accountants, enthusiasts, romantics, well, anyone really, get to experiment on the poor...', several vignettes illustrate impractical and mean-minded 'solutions' are devised to produce cheap housing. The scarcity of housing affordable to those on low and medium incomes, especially in Auckland and Christchurch, continued to rise during 2013. Many of the proposed solutions were impractical. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 22 August 2017

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Walker, Malcolm, 1950-; Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0036892

Description: Digital cartoon by Malcolm Walker published in Architecture New Zealand. Title from file name. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025169

Description: An architect seeks the approval of the urban design panel of an unnamed local authority. He has no answer to the panel's concerns for the environment, heritage, energy efficency, aesthetics, quality of building and other factors. In return he presents his case for the proposal, based on his wealth, legal team, social prominence, lifestyle, pragmatism and 'religion ('philistinism'). The panel, he asserts, has no power 'to make me do anything'. The panel replies by designing a trapdoor to send him hurtling into oblivion. As the panel notes 'Ah! There's nothing like a simple architectural solution...' The tension between urban design and architects' proposals were accentuated over such matters as the Christchurch Rebuild. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Architecture New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025181

Description: A Maori chief dressed in a traditional cloak, carrying a taiaha walks over the brow of a hill and in the distance is a traditional-style whare [house] but then a larger view is shown which shows a contemporary city crammed onto a small island or isthmus. It may refer to the 'Auckland Super City'. Cartoon illustrated an article by Architect David Mitchell published in June/July 2013 issue of Architecture NZ. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).