Jade Kake
{{Short description|New Zealand Māori architectural designer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2024}}
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| alma_mater = University of Queensland, Unitec Institute of Technology
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| awards = Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing, Munro Diversity Award
| practice = Matakohe Architecture
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Bonnie Jade Kake is a New Zealand Māori architect and academic of Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa and Whakatōhea iwi. She specialises in designing communities and housing based on a traditional model of living known as papakāinga.{{Cite web |title=Jade Kake wants to reinvent how we live |url=https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/jade-kake-wants-to-reinvent-how-we-live/ |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=New Zealand Geographic |language=en-NZ}}
Biography
Kake was born in Australia to a New Zealand Māori mother and a Dutch father. She grew up in an eco-community called Billen Cliffs, which her parents had founded, in rural northern New South Wales. As a child, she frequently visited her mother's family and land near Whangārei. Kake completed a degree in architectural design at the University of Queensland in 2009, followed by a short course in carpentry at a TAFE (a Technical and Further Education college).{{Cite web |last=Husband |first=Dale |date=5 October 2019 |title=Jade Kake: Māori by design |url=https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/jade-kake-maori-by-design/ |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=E-Tangata |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web |title=Jade Kake |url=https://academics.aut.ac.nz/jade.kake |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=academics.aut.ac.nz}}
In her early 20s, Kake moved to Auckland to work for Rau Hoskins and his design firm, designTRIBE. From 2013 to 2015 Kake studied for a master's degree in architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology.
In 2018, Kake established her own business, Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, in Whangārei, which speclalises in supporting Māori communities to develop their land. Kake is also a lecturer in the School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology; she researches and teaches on decolonisation of architecture and urban design, the re-establishment of papakāinga, and the development of design methods to support Māori sovereignty. In 2019 she published a book describing the resurgence of papakāinga.{{Cite web |title=Rebuilding the Kāinga – BWB Bridget Williams Books |url=https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/rebuilding-kainga/ |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=www.bwb.co.nz |language=en-US}}
In 2025 Kake became the first architect in New Zealand to complete her architectural registration in te reo Māori, the Māori language.{{Cite web |last=Cugley |first=Michael |date=26 March 2025 |title=Māori architect holds fast to her language despite difficulties |url=https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/03/26/maori-architect-holds-fast-to-her-language-despite-difficulties/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Te Ao Māori News |language=en}}
= Awards and recognition =
In 2018 and 2019, Kake won Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing for her essays on Rāpaki Marae and Ruapekapeka. In 2019, she received a Michael King Emerging Māori Writers Residency.{{Cite book |last=Cox |first=Elizabeth |title=Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture |publisher=Massey University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781991016348 |location=Auckland, New Zealand |pages=274}}
In 2020, Kake won the Munro Diversity Award at the Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards.{{Cite web |title=Awards / Press |url=https://www.matakohe.co.nz/awards-press |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=matakohe architecture + urbanism |language=en-GB}} In 2021, she received an award from the New Zealand Society of Authors to support her research into the life and legacy of Rewi Thompson.{{Cite web |title=$25,000 Writers' Award for 2021 has been awarded to writer, architectural designer, and housing advocate, Jade Kake |url=https://www.copyright.co.nz/about/news-and-blog/25000-writers-award-for-2021-has-been-awarded-to-writer-architectural-designer-and-housing-advocate-jade-kake |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=www.copyright.co.nz}}
Publications
- Kake, J. (2023). Checkerboard Hill. Wellington: Huia Publishers.
- Hansen, J. & Kake, J. (2023). Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere. Wellington: Massey University Press.
- Kake J. (2019). Rebuilding the kāinga: lessons from te ao hurihuri. Bridget Williams Books.{{Cite web |title=Rebuilding the kāinga : lessons from te ao hurihuri {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/1042097019 |access-date=27 May 2023 |website=www.worldcat.org |language=en}}
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Category:21st-century New Zealand architects