Photographs copyright Bruce Connew © 2003 / Jason Busch © 2005

01 typography in the landscape

Athfield Architects Wayfinding
A hillside intervention, Wellington, NZ
2011

AEIOU
A typo/sound sculpture, Wellington, NZ
2009

Wellington Writers Walk
A series of 15 concrete text sculptures, Wellington, NZ
2002 and 2004

Ponatahi House
A house wrapped in literature, Wairarapa, NZ
2003

Distance Markers
A series of cast-iron, number discs, Wellington, NZ
2004

Ponatahi House
— a house wrapped in literature

2003

Commissioned by Architecture+, Wairarapa, New Zealand

Poem by Jenny Bornholdt

Ponatahi House is a large private residence in New Zealand. 120 glass panels form a skin around the upper level of exterior walls, windows and terraces. My proposal to the owners was ʻto wrap their house in literatureʼ. Etched into the glass, the poem is able to be read in sequence from the personal spaces inside. From outside, the work is more abstract, textural, louder.

Size — 27m x 10m x 3m, etched glass