Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme Blog

For the past two years I have had the pleasure of reviewing dozens of projects produced by the remarkable grantees of the Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme.  Each project takes me to a place that I have never been and introduces me to a people that I may not have known existed!  The photographs and videos delight me and the interviews teach me so much about other cultures and sometimes tug at my heartstrings in ways I never thought possible.  Example of different types of data submitted to the EWAP Archive. We started in Asia, moved to New Zealand and then Africa – bringing such a diverse group of endangered architecture to our archive. There was a detailed study of six structures in the  Documentation of Himalayan wooden architecture in Tamang Heritage trail (Nepal).   In New Zealand, we see a magnificent depiction of a traditional whare being reconstructed in Te Whare Mīmiro – documenting the endangered post-tensioned Māori meeting house.   Moving ...