The Masters by Project programme is a lab for landscape and architectural graduates to ask searching question about their own practice and the ways that practice can connect to the world.

The programme encompasses a range of graduates who bring their own unique perspectives to research work. Their research often crosses disciplinary lines. The result is a constellation of ideas that resolve around concerns rather than specific disciplinary problems. This work is developed in presentation and discussion at four workshops held through out the year. Important practitioners and academics in their field and associated professionals, developers, iwi, and local government, not only critique the work but help to engender a larger conversation about the impact of the research for the bigger community.

What is the shape of the wananga of the future and how will this affect the form of the marae? How can the social problematic of suburbia be addressed? What is the social ecology of the industrial park? These are just a few of the critical questions that the graduates are engaged with.

New research work in the programme is becoming more focused on specific problems to do with Auckland’s predicted growth; where can development occur in a way that will not affect Auckland’s unique landscape and lifestyle? This work is being carried out in collaboration with practice and industry.

mbradbury@unitec.ac.nz

Sunday, 15 December 2013

Congratulation Grace



The Fred Tschopp Senior Scholarship is a Fees Award given to an entry level MLA student.  The awards are made for a student whose work the Scholarship panel feels conforms to three criteria;
1. The potential for their research to contribute new knowledge to the discipline of landscape architecture through design research
2. The potential to make a challenging, exciting and significant difference to our world, cities and landscapes
3. The potential to honour the legacy of Fred Tschopp Snr., as characterized by his creative and innovative expansion of the traditional boundaries of the Profession of Landscape Architecture as represented in his "Pioneering work in Rotorua".

 Four students applied for the scholarship this year. Grace He, Grace Warne, Kieran Dove and Raewyn Beavis. The four candidates were interviewed by Fred Tschopp Jnr. who had made a special trip from California to Auckland to select a worthy recipient to honour his father. The winner of the 2013 Fred Tschopp Senior Scholarship was Grace He. Graces’ research project, a search for an urban meeting place for the different cultures of the Auckland inner city has a powerful potential to inform contemporary urban discussion. However Fred jnr.also  felt that the three runners-ups had displayed innovative thinking and he decided to award three prizes of three hundred dollars to show his appreciation of their commendable effort.




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