News
05 Sep
Deputy Chair of the 2025 Registration Panel
Expressions of Interest
For the last two years the Panel Chair, Martha Dravitzki, has led the charge in shepherding Registration candidates through the …
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20 Sep
An award 30 years in the making
![An aerial view of Waiheke Island. Photo credit - Skyview Photography Ltd.](/media/cache/f9/c5/f9c50772bda51186b64c8f6a41d44582.jpg)
Dennis Scott & Waiheke Island
Landscape architect Dennis Scott has made the trip to Waiheke Island countless times. On a Saturday morning in August LAA …
19 Sep
Selling your project
![Mark Ames from Sydney-based Strategic Cities specialises in media management.](/media/cache/6b/1c/6b1cfe1701accb23b8a723bd6342be95.jpg)
Q&A with Mark Ames
Mark Ames from Sydney-based Strategic Cities specialises in media management and engagement strategy for cities and government agencies. He played …
17 Sep
NZILA Auckland Branch presents Martin Rein-Cano of TOPOTEK 1
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Monday 8th October
NZILA Auckland Branch is set to host a talk by international designer Martin Rein-Cano of TOPOTEK 1 Thank you to …
16 Sep
Te Aranga Maori design principles
![Hape - Protect Ihumatao. Image courtesy of Yamen Jawish](/media/cache/41/a4/41a4fe552578518e134425e1f43c538d.jpg)
An insight into how the principles are implemented in practice
Te Aranga Māori Design Principles were developed by Auckland Council in conjunction with mana whenua to provide practical guidance for …
12 Sep
World Architecture Festival - LandLAB's 3 shortlisted LA projects
![LandLAB’s imagined man-made island has been shortlisted in the experimental section of the World Architecture Festival awards.](/media/cache/1b/53/1b53324a3513c2d0de2facdbe2513889.jpg)
Announced in Amsterdam end of November
Four New Zealand landscape architecture projects have been shortlisted for this year’s World Architecture Festival awards, which will be announced …
11 Sep
World Architecture Festival: NZ landscape architecture finalists - part 1
![Te Whau connects Auckland’s east and west coasts.](/media/cache/78/01/780105898f237d08d055dd02f59f6ef3.jpg)
Jasmax project Te Whau Pathway
Four New Zealand landscape architecture projects have been shortlisted for this year’s World Architecture Festival, which will be held in …
10 Sep
New Zealand's Festival of Architecture widens its brief
![Allison Arieff, respected American design writer and urban advocate, presents this year's Sir Ian Athfield Memorial Lecture in Auckland, Wellington and Queenstown.](/media/cache/1d/ef/1defadbc6dd1fdcc3b11454e0ddeb96b.jpg)
14th - 23rd September
New Zealand’s Festival of Architecture kicks off around the country on Friday (14 September) and this year is aiming to …
03 Sep
New IFLA president heading our way
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Professor James Hayter
The head of the International Federation of Landscape Architects is heading our way. Australian James Hayter, who was elected to …
31 Aug
How is landscape architecture misunderstood?
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Leading LAs were quick to point out the complexities of the profession
"There is a perception that we pick the plants ... we're the people who come in and put in the …
28 Aug
Last week I went to a different cultural place
![Mourners at Keri Taiaroa’s Tangi, Otakau Marae - Taiaroa Head, Otago, 1905 (Hocken Library, Negative Number:1809_01_004A)](/media/cache/94/65/9465546b1678302233dcaaf36de01445.jpg)
Te Tau-a-Nuku update
I attended the tangi (funeral) of the 86 year-old matriarch of a family I have known for over 40 years, …
28 Aug
Presidents Update
![Brad Coombs, NZILA President](/media/cache/71/3f/713f3444c5bc95da1e8dec2280f2daaf.jpg)
August 2018
Kia ora, e te whānau, Ngā mihi o te rā. In the last month we have made progress on forming …
27 Aug
Nga Aho - "Our faces in our places"
![Ngā Aho wānanga-a-tau in Omaka, Blenheim last year.](/media/cache/ae/02/ae021b881698b4709c21fcc47e06cf2e.jpg)
“the many strands"
Ngā Aho was a name gifted to a group of Māori design professionals by their kaumatua, Haare Williams. It translates …