Vā, Architecture Of Relationships: A Conversation with Dr. Albert L. Refiti

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are talking with Dr Albert Refiti, professor at AUT and co-director of the Vā Moana Research Centre, about Vā: the relational space that holds people, culture, hierarchy, and belonging together. Once you hear Vā described this way, Pacific architecture stops being a set of shapes and starts reading like a living map of relationships across time. We dig into why key forms and spatial rules have stayed so consistent for roughly 3,000 years across Polynesia, ...