NZIA Urban Design Series 2015

The 2015 NZIA Euroglass Creative Urban Design Series will present talks by accomplished architects and design practitioners from across New Zealand and Australia, who will present their knowledge and experience on some important urban design topics.

There will be three keynote speakers:

Paul Edmond, speaking on Enabling the compact city.
Paul is an architect and urban designer at Woods, a multi-disciplinary practice in Auckland encompassing urban design, architecture, planning, engineering and surveying.

Paul’s presentation will discuss the inter-related issues for achieving the compact city as envisaged in the Auckland Plan. New models of integrated infrastructure and buildings are necessary to meet the higher environmental standards required in the Auckland Unitary Plan.

A brief analysis of the Special Housing Area process and it’s effectiveness to date will be discussed. Examples of medium and higher density development ranging from ‘hidden density’ minor household and laneway units, terrace unit and town centres will be discussed.

Richard Reid who talks on Building the City into the Outcome.
Richard is an architect, landscape architect and urban designer with 25 years professional experience, including working with Neville Gruzman in Sydney and Sir Colin St John Wilson in London. Richard is the director of Richard Reid & Associates, a multi-disciplinary design practice which specialises in integrating large projects with local environments.

The unique value of the practice’s work is its ability to integrate complex and often competing objectives with RMA Part 2 matters, especially at the conceptual stage. Richard will show how his practice’s unforeseen solutions have enabled the spatial structure of the city to be strengthened rather than fundamentally and detrimentally altered. Historic patterns of development were re-discovered and their capacity to absorb change continued. The multi-dimensional outcomes demonstrate the sensitivity required to sustainably develop our cities.

Peter John Cantrill will present the Public Sydney talk.
Peter John is an urban designer in the Strategic Planning and Urban Design Unit of the City of Sydney. Peter John is the co-author with Philip Thalis of the award winning book Public Sydney. He has published articles in the major architectural journals in Australia and is an author on urban design for the Dictionary of Sydney. He has lectured in architecture, Urban Design and Infrastructure at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales and was a lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Technology Sydney for fourteen years.

Peter John will present Public Sydney a celebration of the public space of Central Sydney by examining those qualities of its places, architecture, landscape, engineering and urban works that interact with the rich intricacies of urban life. In the context of a theory of city making the importance of public space will be explained through a series of examples.

Tuesday 28 July
Registration: 12.30pm
Seminar: 1.00pm - 4.30 pm
AUCKLAND - Rendezvous Hotel, 71 Mayoral Drive - Cnr Vincent Street

Wednesday 29 July
Registration: 12.30pm
Seminar: 1.00 pm - 4.30 pm
WELLINGTON - Michael Fowler Centre, Renouf Foyer, 111 Wakefield Street

Thursday 30 July
Registration: 11.00am
Seminar: 11.15am - 2.45pm
CHRISTCHURCH - Air Force Museum Theatre, 45 Harvard Avenue, Wigram

For those that cannot travel to the main centres, there will be an opportunity to view the seminar via live-streaming on Wednesday 29th July.

There will be 30 CPD (15 design, 15 Core) points for professionals that attend the seminar.

Register here. Live-streaming registration here.