LANDSCAPE EXPANDED
Featured
Have 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 Architecure UCL, with her entry ‘Rainforest Commons’.
Developed 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.
Compared 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.
Ready 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”.
The 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.