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Aotearoa New Zealand needs robust landslide data to inform decisions on where and how we live. New public research organisation Earth Sciences New Zealand is doing its part by undertaking a major upgrade to the New Zealand Landslide Database (NZLD).
Read MoreRegular monitoring of changes in our land cover is a critical piece of the environmental monitoring puzzle. It helps us understand the state of our natural and built environments and how they are being impacted by both our changing climate and our land management choices.
Read MoreGiven the range of conjoined events that it brings together - from speaker events to exhibitions - the NZIA’s Aotearoa Festival of Architecture is an illustration of the power of both diversity an collaboration; deserving of being captured for and promoted to a wider audience.
Read MoreThe foreword to Living In Paradox, written by Professor Diane Brand, reads that it is a book “that needed to be written”. Diane reckoned it “should be read as a prelude to the design of future place in New Zealand, so that that enterprise can be undertaken in context”. Some 15 years later, author Garth Falconer lays the book to rest.
Read MoreKate Orff (SCAPE Landscape Architecture) and Marco Scano (Harvard GSD Department of Landscape Architecture) joined forces to create ‘Cool Forests’ for the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice. For our new ‘Artscapes’ section we’ve highlighted two Biennales and an artists’ residency in Ireland.
Read MoreIf you're still looking for ways to engage with Conservation Week (1-7 September) this short film - fronted by conservationist Sam 'The Trap Man' Gibson and backed by Pure Advantage - will definitely assist.
Read MoreDOC has produced a kete of resources and suggestions as ways to help to activate Conservation Week - Te Wiki o te Taiao, in 2025. Resources include a double-sided table talker. What will you be doing in your workplace or community? #ConservationWeek2025
Read MoreIn August a DOC team who work on the New Zealand Threat Classification Series released data on the conservation status of mosses in Aotearoa New Zealand. To celebrate this magnificent flora, LAA has also found some poetry to supplement the data and to mark National Poetry Day.
Read MoreHave you heard of Archisource? Since 2019 they have organised a ‘Drawing of the Year’ award and in 2025 the Digital Media award category was won by MLA graduate Ying Yu Wong - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, with her entry ‘Rainforest Commons’.
Read MoreDeveloped at the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities and promoted by Community Housing Aotearoa, this guide offers ideas to organisations operating in the housing, neighbourhood and urban development sector.
Read MoreCompared to the phenomenon known as ‘starchitects’, the amount of widescreen attention given to landscape architects is very thin on the ground. Sitting Still, a documentary that draws from the insightful life-views of Laurie Olin, is a welcome arrival that is inspiring many - as reflected on by Ralph Johns.
Read MoreReady to read: Across its six contributions, the latest edition of the journal Landscape Review draws from diverse voices and modes of scholarship. Its aim, as expressed by guest editor Hannah Hopewell, is to “extend contemporary understandings of the ways collective and relational qualities of landscape and waterscape manifest”.
Read MoreThe Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival programme for May promises a solid combo of artists and landscape architecture, including a documentary that sets out the philosophy of Laurie Olin. LAA spoke with curator Yasmine Ganley for insights.
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