New Zealand Landscape Architect Neil Aitken Wins Honor

Neil Aitken, one of New Zealand?EUR??,,????'???s most distinguished landscape architects, has been made life member of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA). Life membership is rarely awarded by the institute. Aitken was the landscape architect for the habitat of Wellington Zoo?EUR??,,????'???s new Nocturnal House.

Aitken was a foundation member of the NZILA. During this time he represented the NZILA at a world congress and in 1986 he attended a conference in the USA, where, in his unassuming way, he fostered the profession?EUR??,,????'???s international profile and status and spoke of

New Zealand?EUR??,,????'???s nuclear free status, receiving a standing ovation.

Aitken said it was wonderful to receive the life membership award after being a member of the Institute since its inception in 1972.

?EUR??,,????'??The main issue facing landscape architecture and landscape architects today is the continuing and cumulative impact of largely unrestrained development resulting in misuse and abuse pressures on the New Zealand landscape in spite of the best intentions of those who conceived of, and drafted the Resource Management Act.?EUR??,,????'??

Source: Word of Mouth Media, New Zealand.