Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) is a Māori art and architectural historian and professor of architecture at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland. Her books include >Māori Architecture (Raupo, 2009), Introducing Maori Art (Reed, 2005) and the multi-authored Art in Oceania (Thames & Hudson, 2012) and Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art (AUP, 2024). Deidre is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi and a 2023 Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medallist.