Carinnya Feaunati | |
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Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington , Sacred Heart Girls' College, New Plymouth , Victoria University of Wellington |
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Academic advisors | Daniele Abreu e Lima |
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Institutions | New Zealand Institute of Architects , Victoria University of Wellington |
Carinnya Malelega Feaunati is a Samoan New Zealand architect,cultural design advisor and lecturer,and as of 2022 [update] is New Zealand's only registered Samoan woman architect.
Feaunati was born in Porirua. [1] Her parents are both Samoan,and came to New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s. [1] Feaunati holds the chiefly title of T’iafelelea’i,from her father's village Fasito’outa. [1] In 1996 the family moved from Porirua to New Plymouth,for her father's work,where there were very few Pacific families. [2] [1] Feaunati attended Sacred Heart Girls’College,where she was head prefect. [3] She describes how the school Polynesian dance club practices were held in her living room as it was only her and her sisters participating. [1] [3] Feaunati grew up in state housing. She became interested in becoming an architect when she noticed the difference in quality of built environment amongst her friends' houses. [1]
Feaunati received a Keystone Trust study award in 2010,to enable her to study a Bachelor of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington. [3] She followed this with a Master of Architecture degree;her thesis was titled E Toe Sasa'a Le Fafao;Return to Paradise and concerned a proposal for a tattoo and carpentry school at a tsunami-damaged site in Samoa. [4] She was a finalist in the 2014 Student Design Awards,and her master's project led on to other work with Atelier Workshop:Bonnifait + Giesen and NIWA on building for resilience in the village of Sa'anapu,Samoa. [5] [6]
Feaunati lectures at the School of Architecture at Victoria University,and is both a registered architect and cultural design advisor at Designgroup Stapleton Elliott. [3] [7] [8] She is interested in how to build low-cost housing at scale,how design can be more culturally responsive,and how architecture can respond to global change and disaster recovery. [3] [7] [9] [10] [11] In 2020 Feaunati co-founded MAU Studio with friends. [2]
Feaunati was on the jury of the Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards in 2023. [12] She was appointed to the board of the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 2022. [3]
Faeunati has twice been New Zealand's delegate to the Young Pacific Leaders Forum,in Hawaii in 2017 and in Suva,Fiji in 2018. [13]
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