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02 Sep
Live Stream Event - 2024 IFLA World Council
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For those of you who cannot attend in person, IFLA plans to live stream the Congress via YouTube. It will …
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21 Jul
The Night Sky - What have we lost?
![William examined how we can strengthen our personal connection to the night sky through landscape architecture.](/media/cache/63/8d/638d18b619636ef9406c45dee81204f0.jpg)
Just over a year ago LAA featured William Chrisp. He’d just been awarded the 2020 NZILA Vectorworks Student Scholarship and …
06 Jul
Reforming the RMA - why landscape architects should care
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The NZILA is welcoming the much anticipated governmental release of the draft of the laws which will replace the Resource …
29 Jun
IFLA Asia Pacific Region Newsletter
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June Edition
Featured in this edition: Matthew Pryor from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) talks about the pedagogy and mission of …
28 Jun
NZILA President, Henry Crothers
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Welcome to my first formal update as NZILA President. I’ll be aiming to keep you closely informed of key developments …
25 Jun
Seeking contributions for X-section Journal 2021
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Call for submissions/ abstracts.
X-Section is a student-led magazine published annually. Each year a small group of dedicated students explore a theme that links …
22 Jun
Missing link opens for cyclists and pedestrians
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Auckland’s Southern Path has been a long, slow burn for the landscape architects involved. The process started with Shannon Bray …
21 Jun
From Copenhagen to Wanaka: Gerard O'Connell
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Gerard O’Connell’s love affair with Denmark started as a child with LEGO. He considered the building blocks the “best toy …
17 Jun
Award shortlist for Parliamentary Play Space
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The shortlist for the Landezine International Landscape Awards (LILA) has been announced with the Parliamentary Play Space in the capital …
14 Jun
2021 NZILA Firth Conference: Green MP Eugenie Sage
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Green MP Eugenie Sage says landscape architects are “integrators” with a unique ability to interpret multiple sources of information and …
10 Jun
LAA Profile: Richard Tyler
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Richard Tyler is a details man, not afraid to spend a few hours on the finer points of a design …
10 Jun
Highlighting Māori thinking
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A recent book by the Landscape Foundation brings Māori perspectives on landscape to the fore.
With Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People, Place, Landscape, New Zealand’s Landscape Foundation has produced a deeply rigorous and challenging book …
03 Jun
2021 NZILA Firth Conference: Landscapes of Equity
New Zealand-raised, New York based landscape architect Steven Tupu says he is drawn to projects which attempt to address some …