HOUSES ISSUE 17 (our second issue to sport the new look) goes on sale this Monday. Blue-sky thinking is this issue’s topic in focus, presenting ideas and innovations for the modern New Zealand house.

We also take a wider look at recent innovations in New Zealand residential architecture, featuring inspiring and influential student projects, houses that maximise the sun and Pamela Bell also takes a look at New Zealand’s innovative prefabricated building history.

This issue also presents creative diversity in the form of four modern New Zealand houses (the cover is of the Brynderwyn House in Mangawhai designed by David Wingate of Wingate+Farquhar). This issue's architect in-profile is Dave Strachan of Strachan Group Architects, who combines poetry and pragmatism to create outstanding houses, and there's also a Q+A with Greg O’Flaherty, the owner of Katalog, a specialist supplier of furniture, lighting and architectural hardware.

Five Houses 17 readers will also have opportunity to splash out on new paint, wallpaper or curtains as we have five $1000 Resene vouchers to give away. To enter, fill out the entry card in the magazine, or triple your chance of winning and subscribe to Houses here: architecturemedia.com/secureagm.