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Jessica Halliday
Jessica Halliday is a New Zealand architectural historian and the director of Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture and City Making in Christchurch. Halliday has initiated many programmes for the public to engage with architecture including Open Christchurch. Biography Halliday has a PhD in Art history, Art History at the University of Canterbury completed in 2005, her thesis is about the design and construction of the Beehive (New Zealand), Beehive which is the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament. After completing her PhD in 2005 Halliday worked in London at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Architectural Association from 2006 to 2007. Halliday was the director of the Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) that was first presented in October 2012 and ended in 2018. Christchurch suffered from an 2011 Christchurch earthquake, earthquake in 2011 with widespread damage and loss of life. FESTA was attended by thousands of people seeing temporary wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / Ōtākaro flows through the centre of the city, with an urban park along its banks. The city's territorial authority population is people, and includes a number of smaller urban areas as well as rural areas. The population of the urban area is people. Christchurch is the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland. It is the major urban area of an emerging sub-region known informally as Greater Christchurch. Notable smaller urban areas within this sub-region include Rangiora and Kaiapoi in Waimakariri District, north of the Waimakariri River, and Rolleston and Lincoln in Selwyn District to the south. The first inhabitants migrated to the area sometime between 1000 and 1250 AD. They hunted moa, which led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
