Graeme McConchie

Qualifications

Profile

Graeme McConchie has over 40 years' experience in architectural practice and education, assisting in the writing of Unitec's architecture programme introduced in 1994 and its subsequent development, and occupying various academic leadership roles.  He is currently involved in teaching design studio, architectural history and building conservation, and in the supervision of Master of Architecture (Prof.) students. Research interests include the radical adaptive reuse of existing buildings.

Publications

McConchie, G.S. (2025, 3 October). Concrete blockwork: a post-office design for Martinborough [Paper presentation]. AASA "Modernity, Materials, Materiality", Auckland University of Technology.

Schnoor, C., McPherson, P., & McConchie, G. (2024). Thirty Years of the Unitec School of Architecture: a Place of Architectural Teaching. Asylum, 2024, 8-14. https://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Asylum-2024-section-01-BAS.pdf

Schnoor, C., & McConchie, G. (2023). A Few Comments on Ted McCoy's Domestic Architecture. In Schnoor, C. and McConchie, G. (Eds.), Southern Modernism: Six Houses by Ted McCoy (pp. 74-88). Auckland NZ.

Schnoor, C., & McConchie, G. (Eds.). (2023). Southern Modernism: Six Houses by Ted McCoy. Unitec.

Schnoor, C., & McConchie, G.S. (2023, September). Ted McCoy Lecture : Southern Modern. [Paper presentation]. NZIA Aotearoa Festival of Architecture, School of Architecture, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin.

Schnoor, C., & McConchie, G. (2022, November). Modernism in Context: Ted McCoy's University Architecture in Dunedin [Paper presentation]. Ngā Putahitanga / Crossings: A Joint Conference of SAHANZ and the Australasian UHPH Group, Auckland NZ.

Jadresin-Milic, R., McPherson, P., McConchie, G., Reutlinger, T., & Singh, S. (2022). Architectural History and Sustainable Architectural Heritage Education: Digitalisation of Heritage in New Zealand. Sustainability, 14 (24), 1-18. 10.3390/su142416432

McConchie, G., & Bezuidenhout, T. (2021). A layered conservation response to the layers of built history. Asylum 2021, Unitec ePress, 1, 152-159. doi:https://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/index.php/asylum-2021/

Jadresin-Milic, R., McPherson, P., & McConchie, G. (2020, November). Teaching Architectural History Starting From Current Events: Digitalisation of Heritage in New Zealand [Paper presentation]. What if? What next? Speculations on History's Futures. The 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Perth (Australia).

Schnoor, C., & McConchie, G. (2019). The Vertical Picturesque. Four Essays on Auckland Houses. Auckland, New Zealand, School of Architecture, Unitec Institute of Technology.

Schnoor, C., & McConchie, G. (2019). Vertical Picturesque vs. Complex Space. Schnoor, C. & McConchie, G. Auckland, NZ.

McConchie, G., Garelja, A., & Ross, J. (2019). Claude Megson Houses. Nga Tutaki: Encounters - Architecture Day, AAANZ Conference 2019, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ.

Jadresin-Milic, R., & McConchie, G. (2017). Quoting Palladio. Gevork Hartoonian and John Ting, Quotation: What does history have in store for architecture today? Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.

Balle, B., and McConchie, G. (2010). Wasted Opportunities. Developing Resiliency in Architecture through Ecosystem Biomimicry. Murphy, C., Wake, S., Turner, D., McConchie, G., Rhodes, D. (Eds), On The Edge. Conference Proceedings. 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association.

Murphy, C., Wake, S., Turner, D., McConchie, G., and Rhodes, D. (2010). On The Edge. Conference Proceedings - 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association. Auckland, New Zealand, Unitec Institute of Technology.

McConchie, G. (1999). Sugar Town Utopia. In R. Blythe & R. Spense (Eds.), Thresholds (pp. 197-203). Launceston, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ). Paper presented at the SAHANZ Conference, 1-4 October, Launceston, Hobart, Australia.

McConchie, G. (1998). A Review of History in Architectural Education 1942-1992. Unpublished Master of Architecture thesis, University of Auckland, Auckland.

McConchie, G. (1998). Under Reconstruction, History in Architectural Education 1930-1960 (pp. 239-244). Paper presented at the Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne.