Davor Popadich Architects - recipients of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and New Zealand Institute of Designers Awards.

Practice based in Aotearoa, New Zealand working on local and international projects.

Publications:

Architecture NZ - Popadich House, John Walsh, January/February 2026

ArchDaily - ArchDaily's Best Architectural Projects of 2025 - https://www.archdaily.com/1036342/archdailys-best-architectural-projects-of-2025?utm_medium=email&utm_source=AD%20EN&kth=0&mc_cid=f3ee182ffd&mc_eid=412b71b676

Architecture NZ - 2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards, November/December 2025

The Local Project - feature video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtRHjxlvFQ

Farrell-Green, Simon - Here Magazine, Issue 21, Here Awards 2023 - Best New House

Hansen, Jeremy - Home June/July 2011, NZ

Hansen, Jeremy - Dwell March 12, USA

Stevens, Andrea - Habitus issue 14, AUS

Stock, Nicole - Urbis issue 67, NZ

Stock, Nicole - Architecture NZ 1.2008

Exquisite Apart - 100 Years of Architecture in New Zealand, edited by Charles Walker

Telecom Prospect 2007 New Art New Zealand Catalogue and Web www.telecomprospect2007.org.nz – Te Whare Toi City Gallery (Wellington)

Awards:

Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing - Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects

New Zealand Architecture Award - Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects

Waikato & Bay of Plenty Architecture Award - Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects

Here Awards - New House - Here Magazine

Collections:

Auckland Council Te Kaunihera o Tamaki Makaurau - Public Art, Auckland (Transit Cloud, 2015)

Te Papa Tongarewa, The Museum of New Zealand, Wellington (Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart, 2004)

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (Hauturu: The Night Shift, 2003)

Exhibitions:

Transit Cloud, 2015 - White Night, Auckland Arts Festival (Auckland).

Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side, 2005 – Telecom Prospect 2007 New Art New Zealand – Te Whare Toi City Gallery (Wellington) NZIA / Objectspace Provocative Materials, Objectspace (Auckland) & St Paul St Gallery (Auckland).

Try Hard, 2005 – St Paul St Gallery (Auckland).

Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart, 2004 - Sue Crockford Gallery (Auckland), Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand (Wellington), Künstlerhaus Wien (Vienna), ARTPLAY Design Center (Moscow), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (Auckland), Hocken Gallery (Dunedin), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth).

Hauturu: The Night Shift, 2003 – Sue Crockford Gallery (Auckland), Chelsea Art Museum (New York), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (Auckland).

Tauranga Guggenheim, 2002 - Artspace Gallery (Auckland), Govett Brewster Gallery (New Plymouth).

Bio:

Davor is a Registered Architect, with Batchelor of Architecture (1st Hons) from The University of Auckland School of Architecture.

In 2013 Davor was presented a Fellow Award from Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Inaugural member of the Board of Studies at The University of Auckland, School of Architecture.