This 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 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 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 MoreGarth Falconer reflects on a visit to Becroft House in Takapuna as an “opportunity to experience how wonderful and complete residential life could be through the lens of 50 and 60 years ago”. A seminal landscape intact for the last time.
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