A Victoria University Landscape Archictecture PhD student is working to understand how different ethnic groups see community through their participation in planning processes.
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It goes without saying that much has been lost and missed this year due to Covid-19 and the NZILA Tuio Pito Ora 2020 conference was just one of the events cancelled. But planning is in full swing for next year with the 2021 NZILA Firth Conference to be held in Tauranga on the 6th and 7th of May.
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Canadian landscape architect and academic Beverly Sandalack has received this year's IFLA President’s Award.
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Peta-Maree Ashford is one of four directors at Emerge Associates, a landscape architectural consultancy firm primarily operating out of Perth, Western Australia.
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Many months ago LAA asked distinguished landscape architect Frank Boffa to name a project he was particularly proud of. Turns out it is his own garden.
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Just three years after graduating from Unitec in Auckland landscape architect Jackie Paul is off to one of the world’s leading universities to continue her study. Paul leaves in two weeks for Cambridge University in the UK to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Planning, Growth and Regeneration.
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Linnea Jacobsen is a Danish landscape architect who had always had a hankering to visit New Zealand.
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Groundbreaking landscape architect Megan Wraight will be farewelled at a private funeral today and NZILA Tuia Pito Ora President Brad Coombs is suggesting the landscape architecture and design professions pay tribute to the Wraight + Associates founder at the same time.
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We’re incredibly sad to share the loss of one of our industry’s shining lights. Megan Wraight died yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
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The day LAA catches up with Aleksandra Roenning she’s struggling to find the words. She’s put in a late night putting the final touches to her final project for her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree at Copenhagen University and is exhausted.
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As a child Mark Brown liked being outside playing sport and building things: construction was in his family’s blood. At school he loved technical drawing and art design subjects. And that’s how he arrived at landscape architecture.
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Landscape architect Cam Perkins is the founder of a new business called Urban Pirates - a “change agency, navigating rapid urban transformation”.
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Gary Marshall is a landscape architect at Resilio Studio in Auckland. He’s also a part-time educator at Auckland Permaculture Workshop and an occasional gardener, currently looking for a new patch of soil to apply his skills.
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Boffa Miskell’s John Potter has been made a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora.
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Di Lucas knows what she likes. And she definitely knows what she doesn’t like.
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One of the founding fathers of modern landscape architecture in New Zealand,Frank Boffa, says his interest in the discipline evolved through an interest in horticulture.
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This is a time to reflect. For me, April last year was frenetically navigating a shrill car through the roaring streets of Rome, to travel south to a landscape outside of the bustle of the city.
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There aren’t a lot of upsides to COVID-19. But Louise Dunning, from Noble Fox, hopes this will permanently change the way we work, travel and interact with clients.
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“I’m literally on fire!” Paul beamed as he dismounted from his bike. By the time he arrived in Wellington he had over 1,500km of riding and 21,000m of climbing under his belt. We fed him up and washed his clothes and early the next morning I rolled down the hill with him onto the Picton ferry.
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The 2019 NZILA Firth Conference opened last night in Ōtautahi Christchurch. This year’s theme is DISRUPTION and over the next two days the conference will examine the relationship between design and disruption.
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