A.-Chr Engels-Schwarzpaul is Professor in Spatial Design and Postgraduate Studies at Auckland University of Technology – Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau, in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

“The authors make an important contribution to understanding spatial relationships within indigenous communities. The book highlights an important, and often overlooked, connection between space, time, and the built environment by breaking the disciplinary bounds that often confine our understandings.” • Jamon Alex Halvaksz, University of Texas at San Antonio“The various themes, scales, modes of address, writing styles, and academic approaches are packed together cheek by jowl. The friction among them is full of possibilities for further research, discussion and thinking.” • Stephen Cairns, Future Cities Laboratory

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Pacific Spaces: Dialogues Between Architecture and AnthropologyLana Lopesi, A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Albert L RefitiChapter 1. Māori ‘Architectural Anthropology’Deidre BrownChapter 2. The Junction of the Tala and the ItuAthol GreentreeChapter 3. The Energetics of Vā and the Samoan FaleteleI'uogafa TuagaluChapter 4. Vā and Its Relationship to the Samoan Built EnvironmentAnne E. Guernsey AllenChapter 5. ‘Carving Costs Nothing’: Māori Woodcarvers Train Wage-Laborers how to Show up to Work on TimeJacob CulbertsonChapter 6. Zombie Architecture: Sacrifice in Pre Contact Polynesian and Classical European buildingsRoss Jenner, Albert L RefitiChapter 7. Maunawila Heiau: A Sacred Hawaiian Tempo-Spatial Structure Linking Hawaiʻi and Moana NuiTēvita O KaʻiliChapter 8. Aelon Kein Ad: A Case Study of Rimajol Place Identity in the United StatesJames MillerChapter 9. Hinemihi 2.0: Whare-for-ExportAnthony HoeteChapter 10. Travelling Houses: Translation, Change and AmbivalenceA.-Chr. Engels-SchwarzpaulConclusion: Vā: What is In-Between Architecture and Anthropology?A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Albert L RefitiGlossaryIndex