Rewi Thompson
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Rewi Michael Robert Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa; 19 January 1954 – October 2016) was an influential New Zealand architect who introduced generations of students to Māori design principles as adjunct professor at the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning.
"While working as an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland," writes Jeremy Hansen, "he was at the vanguard of a cultural shift, his studio classes giving a generation of Māori, Pasifika, Pākehā and Tauiwi students the confidence to engage with Māori design principles in their work."[1]