Albert L Refiti

Albert L Refiti

Image used with permission, all rights remain with the author. Photograph credit to Madalena Refiti.

Fasito’outa, Samoa

Refiti, A. L. Hoskins, R., and Schwarzpaul, T., E (2024). Indigenous Architecture and the Politics of Resistance: Waipapa Marae and the Fale Pasifika at the University of Auckland in New Zealand,  https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Architecture-Urban-Space-and-Politics-Volume-II-Ecology-Social-Participation-and-Marginalities/Bobic-Haghighi/p/book/9780367629182?srsltid=AfmBOooWOzhz-QdCQmT12kuRX7DpnvbHn2ooVJ6q7Jxw9VVdxOk6ggqv

Refiti, A. L., Lythberg, B., Smith, V., & Waerea, L. (2022). A Different Kind of Va: Spiraling through Time and Space. The Contemporary Pacific, 34(2), 355.

Refiti, A. L. (2021). Ripe and bursting at the seams: Albert Refiti discusses the vitality of naming, the cross-cultural myth-histories and the moana architecture, of Te Ao Mārama, the South Atrium makeover by Jasmax, FJMT and designTRIBE at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand. Architecture New Zealand, 3, 52–56.

Refiti, A. L. (2021). My first impression of the Atea exhibition was the sight of two incongruous blue walls, rising some three meters from the floor of the Rockefeller Wing’s special exhibition galleries. The Contemporary Pacific, 33(2), 599.

Refiti, A. L. (2018).Recontextualising Polynesian Architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand, In Greenhop, K., Grant, E., Refiti, A.L. & Geln, A., J., (Eds) Handbook of Contemporary Indignenous Architecture, Springer Publication. pp 127-140.

Refiti, A. L. (2017) How the Ta-Va theory of reality constructs a spatial exposition of Samoan architecture, Pacific Studies Journal, 40(1) 2. 

Refiti, A. L. (2008). The forked centre : duality and privacy in polynesian spaces & architecture. AlterNative: AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 4(1): 97-106

Refiti, A. L. (2009). Whiteness, Smoothing and the Origin of Samoan Architecture. Interstices. 10, 9-19. https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.358

Refiti, A. L. (2005). Woven flesh. Interstices, 6.
https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.311

Refiti, A. L. (2021). Review,  Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia. The Contemporary Pacific, 33(2), 599-601. doi:10.1353/cp.2021.0043.

Grant, E., Greenop, K., Refiti, A. L and Glenn, D.J. (Eds) (2018)The handbook of contemporary Indigenous architecture. Springer.

Engels-Schwarzpaul, AC., Refiti, A.L. (2018). Fale Samoa’s Extended Boundaries: Performing Place and Identity. In: Grant, E., Greenop, K., Refiti, A., Glenn, D. (eds) The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6904-8_25  

Keynote Speaker Emeritus Prof Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku. Panel comprised of Sheridan Waitai, Dr Albert Refiti, Nigel Borell and Zech Soakai. Auckland War Memorial Museum, · 7 Dec 2020,YouTube, Accessed March 2, 2023. https://youtu.be/oOOmsMyHWPk