Chris BartonChris Barton

Chris Barton teaches part-time at the Auckland School of Architecture. He was founding editor of New Zealand PC World and a feature writer at the New Zealand Herald. His many awards include the Wolfson Press Fellowship (2005) and Canon Media Awards Reviewer of the Year (2014). Chris was born in Tenterden, England in 1955.

‘Where have you been?’: An essay on heritage, the holocaust, and architecture

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Diana Wichtel won the non-fiction book of the year award in May with her Holocaust book Driving to Treblinka. Her partner Chris Barton writes about his own profound experiences – and life-changing revelations – when he accompanied Diana to the Nazi death camps. It was an odd place to be having a ridiculously obvious realisation about my life. … Read more

The Monday extract: Being made redundant by the Herald, and other tales of modern journalism

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A personal essay by veteran journalist Chris Barton on what it’s like to be made redundant by the Herald – and his fears for any kind of intelligent, long-form writing in mainstream media. When the end came, in December 2012, it was brutal. I was called to a meeting in an editor’s office. It was immediately clear that, to … Read more