This
year we had three very good candidates. Their work was of a very high standard,
they all showed a willingness to engage in the many complex and difficult
issues that our society faces now. How should we live and develop the edges of
our cities? what role does the recycling play in our lives? how can green roofs be more than a
technical innovation? these question affect us all and we are very grateful
that these students have decided to undertake this critical research within the
Masters of Landscape Architecture.
After much discussion and deliberation, the Panel, Chaired by Fred Jr., Renee Davis, Head of School and Matthew Bradbury have decided to award Zoe Cooper the
2012 Fred Tschopp Senior Scholarship.
Zoe’s
research by design project is titled “A Living Roof Urbanism”.
Zoe’s
proposal displayed a strong potential to contribute new knowledge to the
discipline of landscape architecture by investigating the urban and public potential
of living roofs. Living roofs an emerging area in the practice of landscape architecture,
at the moment they tend to be technical solutions using generic planting on
private roofs. Zoe’s project is looking at ways in the indisputable benefits of
green roofs can include their use and enjoyment by the public. Perhaps this is
a bit like the development of the public park, they started as private pleasure
grounds before becoming what we now know as parks. Of course the inventor of the
public park in America was the first landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmsted,
his master piece is Central Park. Fred Tschopp was the first landscape
architect in New Zealand to introduce the idea of a people park, a multi
functional public space that everyone could use for a multitude of recreational
purposes.
We
see Zoë’s project as being just as revolutionary, imagine if not only the
ground was public in the city but also all the roofs. This would be another
great contribution that the discipline of landscape architecture is making to the
development of the modern city.
Congratulations
to Zoe for being the recipient of the 2012 Fred Tschopp Senior Scholarship.
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