If you need food for thought on how public space can bloom into edible landscape, it’s time to consider the mahi of Associate Professor Daniel Exeter, Dr Barbara Ribeiro and Dr David Pattemore at Waharoa.
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As well as the lighting and furniture produced from his design studio in Whakatu, Hawkes Bay, David Trubridge has authored two books. His second,The Other Way, brings the experiences of journeying around the world and its magical landscapes to life.
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On the eve of World Landscape Architecture Month, ASLA-NY (The American Society of Landscape Architects, New York) has announced the winners of its 2025 Design Awards - including one Award of Excellence, eight Honor awards, and 20 Merit award winners.
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Neatly coinciding with April’s ASLA-driven World Landscape Architecture Month there are two events taking place this month that connect to the cultural significance of landscapes: this week’s Wānanga Waitangi Summit and the Resilience through Naturecultures webinar on 16 April.
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Landscape architect Robin Simpson took an interest in sharing information about micro-forests to the streets of Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington at the beginning of March.
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This year’s NZILA Firth Wānanga in Hastings will welcome Tim Waterman (pictured), Dr Joshua Zeunert and Nick Rose - luminaries of the intersections between landscape and food - to the stage. This continues LAA’s series of ‘tasters’ for this event, taking place on 22-23 May. Spread the word!
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Third-year landscape architecture students from around the motu are being invited to put their names forward to gain a place on multidisciplinary teams for the 2025 ArchEngBuild Challenge. It is the first challenge since they began in 2011 to include landscape architecture as part of the mix.
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If you’re a landscape architecture design studio like TERREMOTO your response to the inferno-like wildfires of January 2025 in greater Los Angeles is to shift into a problem-solving mode. Barely six weeks after the fires abated, their LA-based team has developed a set of Guiding Principles.
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Daniel Watt has finished his university studies with a clutch of awards, including a NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Scholarship, and with an ambition to “inspire others to think creatively about resilience in their projects”. His winning Major Design mapped out a new future for Franz Josef township.
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Expanding an understanding of how diverse women in Aotearoa experience travel around our towns and cities is at the centre of Nicki Williams’ research as a landscape architect turned PhD student.
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The streets of Hastings are alive with revitalised spaces. Landscape architect Lizzie Burn outlines the transformation the CBD has undergone in recent years and gives a taster of what to expect at the NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025. (Earlybird tickets closing soon!)
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After nine decades on the planet, and 60+ years practising as a game-changing landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg (1931-2025) is being remembered with headlines such as ‘Landscape Architect Who Celebrated the City’ in the New York Times. (Photo source: MPFP Legacy).
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What’s not to love about Parks Week, PARK(ing) Day and Parklets? Get some pointers to the ripples of activity flowing from Parks Week, followed by two separate examples of tactical urbanism in Wellington: PARK(ing) Day and Parklets.
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Journal publications come in many shapes and sizes, formats and platforms. This article begins a survey of the landscape of journals published in Aotearoa New Zealand that zone into the realm of landscape architecture. Deep dives will follow!
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Thinking ahead to the NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025 Daniel McEwan, NZILA Hawkes Bay/ Manawatū/ Taranaki Branch chair, muses that “even on roads well-travelled to places frequently visited, there's always a sense of adventure about the continued discovery of familiar places and landscapes”.
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Ever wondered about how to estimate the long-term economic value of all the parks in Aotearoa New Zealand? A report commissioned by the NZ Park Leaders Forum from Lincoln University’s Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit has done just that.
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A Master Planning process being undertaken to guide Westport’s future growth and development has been gaining national media attention.
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The countdown to Horanuku Hora Kai, the NZILA Firth Wānanga 2025 on the theme of Edible Landscapes, has started with the opening of ticket sales. This drawcard event will take place in Hastings Heretaunga on 22-23 May.
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Fifth generation New Zealander Matt Vance brings a lifetime of insights from living in and around landscape and landscape architecture to his third and most personal book - Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand (Potton & Burton, 2024).
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Garth Falconer reflects on a visit to Becroft House in Takapuna as an “opportunity to experience how wonderful and complete residential life could be through the lens of 50 and 60 years ago”. A seminal landscape intact for the last time.
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