Dave Charnley is the Senior Urban Designer inside Palmerston North City Council’s Strategic Planning Unit.
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Jess McKenzie is a landscape planner at Vivian + Espie, a small Queenstown-based consultancy which specialises in Landscape and Resource Management.
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Scape founder Kate Orff will take part in an NZILA Streetscape webinar in October - we have an ASLA interview with her.
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In September 2020 I moved from Aotearoa to the United Kingdom during the pandemic.
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If we look at the history of the landscape of Aotearoa through the lens of a Māori perspective, there are spiritual connections, beliefs and traditions that make up the framework with which Māori live by and have been accustomed to for hundreds of years.
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Jessica Tregidga is in her first year of a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, with a prior Diploma in Architectural Technology. She’s doing ‘The Landscapes of Aotearoa’ course at Unitec, which looks into how the past is influencing the present, and how we can provide for the future landscapes of Aotearoa.
Leona deRidder has her own business, Design by Leona, which was born out of a need for a family friendly practice. She was guided in her early years by Di Lucas whilst studying a BLA at Lincoln University, and stayed with her after graduating, before returning to Lincoln to join the MLA programme in 2004.
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When you talk about New Zealand with a person like myself who was born overseas, the first impression they will have will be the rolling green hills, blue rivers, majestic mountains, diversity of landscape from one island to another, Maori culture, and history. Those are the things that are always symbolic for New Zealand, and marketing of New Zealand overseas reflects this as the "Brand of New Zealand".
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The head of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects says the industry is uniquely placed to help in the battle against climate change.
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Just over a year ago LAA featured William Chrisp. He’d just been awarded the 2020 NZILA Vectorworks Student Scholarship and was to complete his masters thesis on how landscape can facilitate a night time experience so that the naturally dark environment can be enjoyed.
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Jakob Sandel Sorrenson is Head of Sustainability at Schønherr in Denmark and is a member of the Danish Association of Landscape Architects' working committee. He was one of the international speakers to beam in via livestream to this year’s NZILA Firth Conference.
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Dr Anita Bakshi says there’s a bit of a myth perpetuated in the United States - and it’s that Native Americans are a people of the past.
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It’s 50 years since New Zealanders launched the “Save Manapouri” environmental campaign, preventing the raising of the levels of lakes Manapouri and Te Anau as part of the construction of the Manapouri Power Project.
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Boffa Miskell’s Yvonne Pflüger begins her working day by checking the weather forecast.
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Gerard O’Connell’s love affair with Denmark started as a child with LEGO.
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Green MP Eugenie Sage says landscape architects are “integrators” with a unique ability to interpret multiple sources of information and apply it to design for best outcomes in urban environments.
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Richard Tyler is a details man, not afraid to spend a few hours on the finer points of a design to ensure it’s just right.
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New Zealand-raised, New York based landscape architect Steven Tupu says he is drawn to projects which attempt to address some of the challenges facing minority communites and populations of colour. Tupu presented on “Landscapes of Equity” at last month’s NZILA Firth Conference.
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Landscape architects across the world are mourning the loss of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who has died in Vancouver aged 99.
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Tama Whiting is a Māori designer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington.
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