Homegrown architecture and design podcast 76 Small Rooms is celebrating its 10th birthday with a live recording session and a panel of special guests. The podcast's hosts – Richard Archbold, Natasha Markham, Jeremy Hansen and Mat Brown – will be asking two big questions, in a hopefully fun way: how has design in Aotearoa New Zealand changed in the last decade? And what changes can we hope for in the decade ahead?

They'll be joined by three lively panellists: RTA studio founder Richard Naish (the first-ever guest on the podcast 10 years ago), Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism's Jade Kake, and Objectspace Director Kim Paton. Join us for a lively conversation and celebration of the best architecture and design.

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76 Small Rooms is a podcast about architecture from Aotearoa New Zealand. Since connecting on Twitter a decade ago, its four hosts – architects Arch, Mat, Natasha and writer Jeremy – have interviewed fascinating architects from Aotearoa and abroad and discussed a host of pressing urban issues.

Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Whakāue) is an architect and writer. She is the founder of Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, a Kaupapa Māori architecture studio, and a part-time lecturer at Huri Te Ao School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau. She is the co-author of Rewi: Ata Haere, Kia Tere (Massey University Press, 2023) and the author of Rebuilding the Kāinga: Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri (Bridget Williams Books, 2019). Her first novel, Checkerboard Hill, was published by Huia Publishers in 2023. She is a two-time winner of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing.

Richard Naish is an architect who founded RTA Studio in 1999, a practice which now has offices in Auckland, Hawke's Bay and Wanaka. The firm, which works on a residential, civic and commercial projects of various scales, has won more than 100 national, local and international architecture awards, including HOME magazine's Home of the Year award, the New Zealand Architecture Medal and several awards at the World Architecture Festival.  

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.