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The focus of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2026, officially staged for 14-20 September, is Te Reo Towns. Too often we leave the time we schedule to think about and plan for these occasions too late - LAA starts early this year with a think-piece from contributor Nick Kapica.
Read MoreIn a piece about our past, present and future, Garth Falconer ponders some potential, and potent, lessons contained in and conveyed by the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau - US essayist, poet, and philosopher.
Read MoreThis reproduction of an article by botanist Dr Philip Simpson - from 42 years ago - presents another look back to the NZILA’s original journal, The Landscape. He advocates for planting extensive populations of trees throughout city streets, bringing urban streams back to life and ‘greening’ the surfaces of our buildings.
Read MoreArchitecture NZ has reached the end of a 40+ year run. The talented team members at AGM, their dedicated contributors and all their supporters deserve a huge collective thank you for keeping the kaupapa of architectural publicity, writing and reporting so vibrantly alive.
Read MoreEvery decade brings new technological advances that provoke changes to everyday work practices. Courtesy of looking back on the NZILA’s founding journal, The Landscape, this article fast forwards us from the 1980s to the 2020s. (The thumbnail image above is excerpted from a 1987 cover illustration by Tony Jackman).
Read MoreWith the progress of RMA replacement legislation fast approaching the end of its Select Committee stage, Matthew Prasad of Harrison Grierson offers a timely independent thinkpiece on the shift to regional spatial plans, and away from 'masterplans'.
Read MoreThe Landscape, the first NZILA journal, ran for 54 issues - commencing in September 1976 and ending with its Winter 1994 edition. This month we start a ‘Looking Back’ series, as an opportunity to highlight past articles, themes, topics and issues.
Read MorePeter Sergel held the pencil on development of the globally recognised work done at the Hamilton Gardens across four decades. Now a movie titled The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens has faithfully documented the evolution of this ‘museum of humanity’.
Read MoreThe matching of Peter Sergel, creator of the Hamilton Gardens, and photographer Grant Sheehan has resulted in a not-to-miss film soon showing as part of the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival: The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens
Read MoreTrees from 12 nations competed as finalists for the title of 2026 European Tree of the Year, with a tree that has witnessed centuries of autumn colours emerging as the winner and as the subject of an emotive video.
Read MoreCinema-goers and popcorn-lovers have a treat to look forward to from later this month, with the nationwide roll-out of the 15th Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival - which coincides with Resene’s 80th birthday.
Read MoreWellington-based writer and editor Susette Goldsmith has produced two companion works that ask important questions about the adequacy of our defence of trees: Tree Sense and Capital Trees.
Read MoreIs going from UK Tree of the year in 2025 to European Tree of the year 2026 going out on a limb? LAA was very taken with this small story of a very tall tree, located in a busy urban street in Glasgow, Scotland.
Read MoreLincoln University academics Marcus Robinson, Professor Jacky Bowring and Dr Shannon Davis, along with Dr Sarah Edwards from the Bioeconomy Science Institute, have been researching spatial opportunities for balancing urban growth, food production and ecology.
Read MoreThis essay from postgraduate student Ananda Acharya argues that landscape memory is stored in repeated practices and poses a question for designers: which practices do we permit to become memory, and which do we erase?
Read MoreIn our final ‘book column’ for the year, LAA turns the clock back to a clutch of books celebrating their 10th and 15th anniversaries - as well as presenting a bountiful selection of large illustrated books published in 2025 on flowers, plants, our biodiversity of feathered friends and city mapping.
Read MoreQuietly located among the celebrations of the centennial year of The New Yorker, was an exhibition of its famous covers that put the urban life of Parks at the centre of the storied city’s stories.
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a new podcast to draw insights from, the team at Te Papa Tū Whirinaki – The Landscape Foundation have released their third season of episodes inspired by the landmark book Kia Whakanuia te Whenua | People, Place, Landscape.
Read MoreAotearoa 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.
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