Workshop 2 Critics

Ben Clark
Ben joined Boffa Miskell’s Auckland urban design team in early 2012 as a landscape architect and urban designer. Ben has acquired a broad range of analysis and design skills, giving him an understanding of how networks and processes work from the larger macro scale down to the micro scale.
Ben has been involved in a number of urban design and landscape architecture public sector projects since joining Boffa MiskellI including analysis, option development and evaluation of multi-modal transport projects, visioning how transport corridors will evolve in response to the changing demands of the city.
In addition to public sector projects Ben has worked on a number of private sector projects including structure planning and masterplanning projects for residential, commercial and industrial developments in both Auckland and Hamilton. Within the masterplanning process Ben has experience working on the design of streetscapes and integration of transport and land use at a variety of scales working within multi-disciplinary teams. In all his projects, Ben looks to achieve best practice outcomes while balancing a range of objectives.
Ben also has experience working on smaller scale landscape and spatial design projects that include hard landscape and planting strategy for streetscapes, reserves and stormwater infrastructure.
Ben’s interests in urban design lie in facilitating transport choice and holistic masterplanning particularly addressing how Auckland’s urban form will
provide a high quality of life for its inhabitants as it undergoes significant population growth.

Tessa Bradbury
Landscape Architect Isthmus.
I've previously studied at the University of Sheffield and the University of Western Australia, recently completing my Masters in Landscape Architecture at UWA. I have previously worked at UWA as a studio assistant, helping to run a first year combined Architecture/Landscape Architecture design studio.

Andrea Reid
Landscape Architect Opus
Andrea is a driven, multi-award winning landscape architect based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has just started a new position at WSP-Opus, after working at AECOM for the past three years.
Andrea simultaneously project manages a volunteer initiative called Pollinator Paths, and has been doing so for the past 4 years. She has a passion for designing holistic, livable spaces that connect communities with local ecology, culture, technology, industry and history.
Andrea has a sound understanding of the broad range of landscape considerations required on projects within challenging or sensitive environments. She has also gained a strong understanding of the challenges around implementing environmental improvements within urban environments by working with Auckland Transport, Auckland Council and the Waitemata Local Board.
Andrea developed a protocol for providing environmental enrichment for pollinators within the urban realm. Her ‘Pollinator Paths’ initiative has been included in several Council documents including the Auckland Transport Local Path Design Guide and the Waitemata Local Board 2017/2018 Plan. This also enabled her to form strong relationships with members of Council and community stakeholders allowing her to achieve this vision by implementing Auckland City’s first Pollinator Path.
Andrea is a Board member of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture (NZILA) Auckland Branch and Kelmarna Gardens, Auckland's only inner-city organic farm.


Dr Albert Refiti
Associate Professor - Spatial Design AUT
Albert Refiti is a research leader in the field of Pacific spatial and architectural environment with an extensive research and publication in the area, supported by his teaching and lecturing in the last 15 years. Albert has worked in architectural practice in Auckland and London. He has lectured in history of art and architecture and related fields at the University of Auckland School of Architecture, Unitec School of Architecture and Manukau School of Visual Arts. Albert has served on a number of community and academic boards relating to Pacific culture, art and education. Albert has written a number of book chapters, journal and conference papers on indigenous spatial and environmental knowledge relating to the identity formation of people and communities in the Asia Pacific region. His current research is on Pacific concepts of space - how they are formulated and enacted, the aim which is to find out how this understanding might play a role in rethinking the ways that Pacific people can create new modes of working and creating new notions of place and citizenship in the diaspora towards a Pacific cosmopolitic.
This has led to the formation of Pacific Spaces (with Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul), a three year research project which combines the disciplines of architecture, spatial design, anthropology and sociology by convening a series of Fono or meetings (in Auckland – 2013 & 2014, Hawaii – 2014, Europe 2015 and the US – 2016) to discuss and develop scholarship on how new types of spaces and environment are to be imagined for the future by Pacific, New Zealand, US and European scholars. The outcome of which is to publish 2 monographs on Pacific Spaces starting in 2016.

Ian Henderson
Ian taught garden design, garden history and indigenous landscapes in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Unitec in Auckland for 19 years. He also specialised in study tours to Japan. He has judged at international and local garden shows.
He was the founding President of the Garden Design Society of New Zealand (GDSNZ), and is the Secretary to the Accreditation Board of the Society.
In partnership with Penny Cliffin he set up HIKOI Garden Tours in 2016. HIKOI specialises in a professional approach to touring gardens with a strong emphasis on the cultural and historical context of gardens, including a taste of architecture and art to support garden visits.
PUBLICATIONS
Henderson, I. (2015). Narratives across a relational web: Indigenous pedagogy in landscape architecture, Huihuinga Mātauranga Māori, Ngakau Mahaki, Unitec Marae, Auckland.
Henderson, I. (2015). Cultural emergence: Living in Aotearoa, X-Section Journal, (Vol. 5).
Henderson, I. (2015). Te hoahoa whenua: engaging in the Māori world, Indigenous Content in Education Symposium, Adelaide, Australia.


George Woolford
Team Leader / Associate Landscape Architect at Beca
George is an award winning senior Landscape Architect with 9 years’ experience delivering innovative and sustainable design solutions for infrastructure, commercial developments, public realm open space, urban masterplanning and streetscape projects within Aotearoa and internationally.
George’s particular contribution to streetscape and transport projects has been to drive a ‘design-led’ philosophy for the team, focusing on meticulous process and advocating for high quality outcomes from masterplan concept stage through to implementation. He has developed strong, inclusive and respectful partnerships with clients, mana whenua and contractors, encouraging a collaborative work ethic.
George has progressed from senior landscape architect to a team leader of the Auckland Design Practice  –

Ken Davis
Ken Davis Architects is an Auckland based,  award winning and multi-disciplinary architectural studio which was founded by director Ken Davis in 2001.
Ken is a registered architect with extensive experience in urban design, architecture, commercial interior design and product /street furniture design in Melbourne, Wellington and Auckland.
He has worked, principally in the private sector, with a diverse range of clients from property developers, property investors and property managers, government departments, city councils and large private sector institutions and has developed a range of skills and experience in the areas of strategic and conceptual design, client liaison, project coordination and management and communication and design management.
Ken was President of Wellington's Architecture Centre from 1991-1993 and is a Visiting Lecturer at the Victoria University School of Architecture. From 2004-07 Ken was a member of the Wellington City Council Waterfront Development Subcommittee overseeing the development of Wellington's urban waterfront.
Ken Davis Architects have worked in collaboration with a range of architectural practices on larger projects, including Herriot + Melhuish; Architecture (HMA), Opus International Consultants and Mitchell Stout Architects

Ginny Pedlow
Over the past 15 years Ginny has been an integral part of Mitchell + Stout Architects. Ginny comes with a wealth of experience in residential and non-residential design having worked on projects such as Unitec Institute of Technology, the Tauranga City Art Gallery and Titirangi’s Lopdell House Redevelopment.
After graduating from the University of Auckland School of Architecture in 1985, Ginny worked in London and Paris, concentrating on resorts and boutique hotels. She has an extensive background in heritage buildings, civic works, educational & tourist attractions, educational facilities, residential dwellings and medium density apartments. Her own house in Westmere has been published in Home Work: Inside the homes of 20 leading New Zealand architects. Ginny is an active member of Architecture+Women.NZ.


Tracy Ogden-Cork
 Tracy has over 17 years of professional experience in the field of urban design. She is the Director of Motu Design Ltd, a specialist urban design firm that she established in 2005.  Since then the company has grown to a team of five. She brings together a wide range of communication and design skills developed through a unique mix of professional, educational and personal experience.  Tracy is highly experienced at working in multi-disciplinary teams on politically sensitive projects with a high public profile, covering the full spectrum of urban design related services.  This includes strategic planning, master planning, design guidelines, policy advice, and the design or assessment of large development proposals for intensive residential, retail and commercial or mixed use developments, as well as streets, public spaces and transport infrastructure. Tracy has also been a member of the Auckland Urban Design Panel since 2012

Tracy is passionate about finding urban solutions specific to Aotearoa/New Zealand that reflect our unique mix of cultures and respect our valued landscapes and heritage.  Her Masters of Architecture thesis ‘Towards a South Pacific Urbanism, - Tikanga Maori, History and Urban Design in the context of Tamaki Makaurau - Auckland Region’,  received an A+. In search of continuing professional development, Tracy participated in the first The Regenerative Practitioner Series to be held in New Zealand (2016), that seeks to provide tools for being more effective in delivering meaningful solutions to the challenges our cities face. She is married to Teariki Cork, from the Cook Islands and has two children. Together they share a passion for supporting communities and celebrating Maori and Pacific cultures.