Join us for an opening weekend Coffee & Croissants conversation at Sir Miles Warren Gallery to welcome in Rendered Futures: Drawing architecture with curators Kim Paton and Micheal McCabe.

The pair will share reflections on Rendered Futures, an exhibition that brings together drawings by architects from across Aotearoa spanning five decades, to articulate architectural drawing as a shape-shifting and sometimes radical form.

Kim and Micheal will then invite contributors to the exhibition to share insights, including Richard Harris, Oliver Ray-Chaudhuri, and Erin Kimber from Macmillan Brown Library.

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Kim Paton has been the Director of Objectspace since 2015. Her interest is in interdisciplinary exhibition making across the fields of craft, design, architecture and contemporary art. In 2024 she was awarded the Garvey Cup by Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA in honour of her commitment to supporting architecture and its place in the public realm. Paton has curated and written extensively on object-based art forms.

Micheal McCabe is an interdisciplinary designer based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He has worked with art galleries (Objectspace, Window Gallery, The Dowse), theatre companies (Auckland Theatre Company, Silo Theatre, Actors Program, Massive Theatre Company, PAT) and public art organisations (Auckland Artweek, Satellites). He lectures at AUT's School of Future Environments.

Richard Harris is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most respected architects and practice leaders. Now running an independent practice, he was a co-founder and long-time Director of Jasmax and is a past President of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute. Harris' significant contribution to the field was recognised with an honorary Doctorate from Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau Auckland University of Technology in 2018. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, was Chair of the 2009 Ministerial Urban Task Force, and is actively engaged in Urban Design panels, design review, mentoring, and judging across the fields of architecture and design.

Oliver Ray-Chaudhuri is a designer, researcher and educator from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He graduated from Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland in 2024 with a Master of Architecture (Prof) and Heritage Conservation. He is a co-founder of Side Walk; a spatial practice research collective that considers the impacts of economic, climate, and social uncertainties on architectural design. He teaches at UoA's Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, and is co-editor of Bypass Journal.

Erin Kimber is an archivist and curator at the Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. The library holds one of the largest collections of architectural drawings in Aotearoa New Zealand, forming a vital resource for architectural research and practice regionally and nationally.

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Coffee & Croissants is a conversation series supported by our friends at Allpress Espresso