A new architecture magazine, Architecture Aotearoa: New Zealand’s Buildings, Cities, and Culture will launch in late May 2026 as a collaboration between Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and the publishers of HOME: Nook Publishing.
Edited by Federico Monsalve, Architecture Aotearoa will be published as a quarterly print magazine, accompanied by a dedicated online platform, homeofarchitecture.co.nz.
The new title marks a significant moment for architectural publishing in Aotearoa, establishing a renewed platform for the dialogue, documentation, and dissemination of New Zealand architecture.
Through both print and digital channels, Architecture Aotearoa will provide an insightful and inspiring space for projects and designers, critical discussion, industry perspectives, and the contexts it inhabits.
The magazine will continue a longstanding tradition of recording and publishing architectural discourse in New Zealand while looking ahead to a new era of practice, debate, and design culture. With a fresh editorial approach, Architecture Aotearoa will speak to an informed and invested audience of: architects, designers, clients (or those who hope one day to be), builders, suppliers, policy makers, and anyone curious about buildings, cities, and culture.
At the helm as Editor-in-Chief is Federico Monsalve, whose editorial vision will bring a thoughtful, contemporary lens to the publication — one that reflects both the depth and diversity of architectural practice across Aotearoa, its evolving cultural context and uniqueness on a world stage.
“It is an honour to collaborate with the architecture industry; learning from its past, documenting its present, and helping influence its future. With this platform we aim to advance the practice, interrogate the conditions that shape it, and examine the contexts that architecture both responds to and produces.”
As Publisher, Nook Publishing continues to expand its portfolio of design-led titles. Architecture Aotearoa joins its flagship publication HOME, alongside the annual Design Guide and The New Zealand Architecture Directory, further strengthening its commitment to high-quality publishing across architecture and design.
Clare Chapman, Director of Nook Publishing, says the new title reflects a shared ambition to create a platform of lasting value for the architectural community.
“Architecture Aotearoa is an important new chapter in architectural publishing in this country. We are proud to be collaborating with Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects to create a publication and platform that will record, examine, and celebrate the ideas, projects, and conversations shaping architecture in Aotearoa.”
Together with Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects, Architecture Aotearoa represents a shared ambition to support and elevate architectural discourse in New Zealand — creating a platform that is at once reflective, critical, and forward-looking.
The first issue of Architecture Aotearoa will be released on 1 June 2026.
