Jessica Halliday

Halliday has a PhD in Art History at the University of Canterbury completed in 2005,{{Cite book |title=Long Live the Modern, New Zealand New Architecture 1904–1984 |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86940-415-4 |editor-last=Gatley |editor-first=Julia}} her thesis is about the design and construction of the Beehive which is the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament.{{Cite web |title=Function follows form : Sir Basil Spence and the design and construction of 'the Beehive,' the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111467229 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=www.wikidata.org |language=en}} After completing her PhD in 2005 Halliday worked in London at the Architectural Association from 2006 to 2007.

Halliday was the director of the Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) that was first presented in October 2012 and ended in 2018.{{Cite web |title=Jessica Halliday |url=https://planning.org.nz/PersonProfile?Action=View&PersonProfile_id=1010354 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=New Zealand Planning Institute}}{{Cite web |title=Jessica Halliday |url=https://architecturenow.co.nz/contributors/Halliday-Jessica/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Architecture Now |language=en-AU}} Christchurch suffered from an earthquake in 2011 with widespread damage and loss of life.{{Cite web |date=2018-07-11 |title=Christchurch quake cost rises $10b to $40b |url=https://www.nbr.co.nz/christchurch-quake-cost-rises-10b-to-40b/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=NBR {{!}} The Authority since 1970 |language=en-NZ}} FESTA was attended by thousands of people seeing temporary works of architecture.{{Cite web |title=Engaging Christchurch through architecture |url=https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/engaging-christchurch-through-architecture/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Architecture Now |language=en-AU}} The 2016 programme included three artists Juliet Arnott (Rekindle), Julia Morison and Julia Harvie with responses to architecture.{{Cite web |title=Imagining a different Christchurch – Jessica Halliday and FESTA 2016 |url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/imagining-a-different-christchurch-jessica-halliday-and-festa-2016/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Christchurch City Libraries |language=en-NZ}}

Another job Halliday has had is for two years running the Ilam School of Fine Arts gallery.{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Meet the woman empowering communities through architecture and city making |url=https://www.habitatbyresene.co.nz/specifiers/meet-the-woman-empowering-communities-through-architecture-and-city-making/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Habitat by Resene |language=en-NZ}}

Halliday is the director and co-founder of Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture and City Making in Christchurch, this followed on from FESTA. They run events to inform and engage people in 'city making'.{{Cite web |title=Te Pūtahi |url=https://teputahi.org.nz/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Te Pūtahi |language=en-NZ}} Te Pūtahi have run Open Christchurch, an annual festival of architecture events founded in 2019 with open days of significant building and sites, in 2023 it had fifty-two buildings opened to tours and included a celebration of the work of Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney. In 2021 it had 46 buildings including the St Andrew's College Centennial Chapel designed by Architectus with project architect Jane Rooney, and Tūranga Central Library designed by Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen with Ngāi Tūāhuriri & Matapopore.{{Cite web |date=2021-05-07 |title=Hopes and regrets in the post-quake city |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/125021249/hopes-and-regrets-in-the-postquake-city |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Stuff |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Past festivals {{!}} Open Christchurch |url=https://openchch.nz/past-festivals/ |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=Open Christchurch |language=en-US}} They also run participatory design workshops{{Cite web |title=Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture and City Making – CINCH |url=https://www.cinch.org.nz/entries/6516 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=www.cinch.org.nz}} and talks, for example a talk in 2022 was called The water city under climate stress about designing for water in Christchurch with climate change with a panelist including Matthew Bradbury from Te Puukenga Unitec, Hannah Lewthwaite, CCC Climate Resilience & Landscape Architect and Ben Brown (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Koroki, Ngāti Paoa) author and performer.

...the design of our cities has a huge part to play in the future of the planet, climate breakdown and the possibility of regeneration. (Halliday 2019)

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Halliday was a finalist for the Munro Diversity Award in the Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards 2023.{{CiteQ|Q125962193}}

Halliday spoke on the Christchurch Regeneration Panel at Te Kōkiringa Taumata New Zealand Planning Institute Conference in April 2023.{{Cite web |title=Get Ready for the Christchurch Regeneration Panel : New Zealand Planning Institute |url=https://planning.org.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=1000193 |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=planning.org.nz}}

Halliday is on the national committee for the New Zealand chapter of the organisation Organisation for the Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement in Architecture (DOCOMOMO).

Halliday writes for Architecture Now, an online New Zealand architecture and design publication.

Halliday features in the documentary [https://www.mauriceandi.com/ Maurice and I], contributing a number of interviews about the practice and works of Warren and Mahoney.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-20 |title=The remarkable friendship of iconic architects Warren and Mahoney |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101/audio/2018956381/the-remarkable-friendship-of-iconic-architects-warren-and-mahoney |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}{{Cite web |title=Film review: Maurice and I |url=https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/film-review-maurice-and-i/ |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=Architecture Now |language=en-AU}}

• Long Live the Modern, New Zealand's New Architecture 1904–1984, editor Julia Gatley (2008) {{ISBN|978-1-86940-415-4}} – contributing author

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