There are similar typographical relationships that relate to human skin and the landscape and similarities between tectonics, materials and design processes. My creative practice finds expression through jewellery and impingement on the body to reflect how women occupied space in these modernist houses and why adornment is of such value. There is deeply gendered play implicate in place-building and I focus on body adornment as building extended apparel. A wish to establish an understanding of the parallel of modernist design in the miniature (jewellery) and modernist design at the macro level (modernist housing) in a liberal community of Titirangi in the 1960s and 1970s.

Making and design for me became not just not just about beauty but about gender and politics. In architectural academia, my research involves physical manifestation. This relationship between architecture, jewellery, clothing and any outward expression is loaded with issues of gender, politics and personal expression. The difference between modernist jewellery and modernist architecture is simply one of scale.

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