Every 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).

NZILA, History, #LandscapeExpandedStephen Olsen28 May 2026

Looking back on The Landscape (1)

The 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.

NZILA, History, #LandscapeExpandedStephen Olsen1 May 2026

Visiting the Open Home at the Becroft’s residence

Garth 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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