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Dr Jacky Bowring, Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, has won the inaugural Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize set up by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Read MoreTen years ago today Vicki Clague started her role as the Chief Operating Officer of the NZILA and all the presidents she has worked with credit her with taking the organisation to a new level of professionalism and efficiency.
Read MoreAmerica’s Julie Bargmann is the winner of the inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.
Read MoreKate Orff says she is trying to re-set the practice of landscape architecture. The Scape founding principal, along with her kiwi colleague Tama Whiting, recently presented an NZILA Streetscape Speaker Webinar where she started by saying she is trying to reframe the profession against the backdrop of a ‘global landscape emergency.’
Read MoreMartha Dravitzki is a landscape architect based in New Plymouth. She gained her masters at Lincoln University in 2006-7. On top of her family and work commitments she is deputy chair of the NZILA registration panel.
Read MoreA passion for both art and nature as a youngster guided Kess Aleksandrova into the landcape architecture profession.
Read MoreDave Charnley is the Senior Urban Designer inside Palmerston North City Council’s Strategic Planning Unit.
Read MoreJess McKenzie is a landscape planner at Vivian + Espie, a small Queenstown-based consultancy which specialises in Landscape and Resource Management.
Read MoreScape founder Kate Orff will take part in an NZILA Streetscape webinar in October - we have an ASLA interview with her.
Read MoreIn September 2020 I moved from Aotearoa to the United Kingdom during the pandemic.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreJessica 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.
Read MoreWhen 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".
Read MoreThe head of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects says the industry is uniquely placed to help in the battle against climate change.
Read MoreJust 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.
Read MoreJakob 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.
Read MoreDr 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.
Read MoreIt’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.
Read MoreBoffa Miskell’s Yvonne Pflüger begins her working day by checking the weather forecast.
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