Landscape architects have just over a month to enter the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2022.
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The NZILA is disappointed none of its submissions around the Natural and Built Environments Bill have been accepted. The Environment Committee released its report on the inquiry into the proposed bill earlier this week.
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Martha Dravitzki is a landscape architect based in New Plymouth. She gained her masters at Lincoln University in 2006-7. On top of her family and work commitments she is deputy chair of the NZILA registration panel.
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The NZILA President says the predictable lockdown extension means the Institute team is working to increase online opportunities for members.
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What precisely does the word environment mean? The NZILA believes it needs to be clearly defined in the proposed Natural and Built Environment Bill if the new legislation is to be successful.
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A University of Otago study has found therapeutic landscapes are beneficial for former refugees’ health and wellbeing here - but barriers to the use of these spaces need to be addressed.
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Hanley Chen from Lincoln University has been awarded the 2021 NZILA Vectorworks Landmark Student Scholarship.
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A new initiative begins tonight at the NZILA President’s Cocktail evening. The first ever President’s Awards will be presented at the event in Tauranga which precedes the 2021 NZILA Firth Conference.
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Despite the first course of landscape architecture being offered in New Zealand more than 50 years ago, many outside the profession don’t know what it is about or the breadth of roles it covers.
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As the work year draws to a close, so much is being reviewed and recapped about the extraordinary (and not in a good way) year we have just weathered.
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Takutai Square in Auckland’s Britomart precinct is now the temporary home to the finalists in the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora/Brick Bay Nohonga design challenge.
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Just three years after graduating from Unitec in Auckland landscape architect Jackie Paul is off to one of the world’s leading universities to continue her study. Paul leaves in two weeks for Cambridge University in the UK to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Planning, Growth and Regeneration.
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The New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora has welcomed the long anticipated review of the Resource Management Act, saying the focus on positive outcomes rather than the minimisation or avoidance of adverse effects is a positive step for urban environments.
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The five finalists have been found for the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora/Brick Bay Nohonga design challenge.
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The government has decided to invest in green infrastructure and the conservation estate in order to save and then protect jobs across the country, writes the NZILA Tuia Pito Ora president, Brad Coombs.
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We’re about halfway through the lockdown. Looking at the numbers it seems like Aotearoa is responding well so far. Two weeks ago I was really worried. I was processing the news of a major intervention to how I was used to working and living writes NZILA Tuia Pito Ora president Brad Coombs.
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NZILA Tuia Pito Ora is very mindful that the restrictions that have been put in place by the government are about saving lives in Aotearoa, writes president Brad Coombs. Being kind to each other by observing the movement restrictions, in particular, is the best way that we can look after our families, friends and the communities that we live and work in.
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As the country begins the four-week Covid-19 lockdown, landscape architecture businesses around New Zealand are adapting and responding to this unprecedented event. Offices are shut and landscape architects are getting used to new ways of working.
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Landscape architects are being urged to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible by New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture’s Tuia Pito Ora president, Brad Coombs.
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As the country, and the world, works to come to grips with the unprecedented situation currently unfolding in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic - the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora has acknowledged the challenging times we are facing.
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