Abstract:
Polynesian architecture has tended to be neglected
or dismissed as a field of serious study by architects
in New Zealand. This is also true of the indigenous
art forms in general, which have been the source of
substantial scholarship by ethnologists; scholarship
of which art specialists, are often unaware. The
result is that apart from monographs with an ethnological
viewpoint, the treatment of indigenous architecture has
been superficial at best.