Researching the New Zealand Landscape

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This website serves as a platform for ongoing research into New Zealand’s natural and cultural landscapes by landscape designer Philip Smith and photographer David Straight.

This website started with our book, Vernacular - The Everyday Landscape of New Zealand (Potton and Burton, 2015), as a place to catalogue the process of making the book. As we undertake another multi-year project looking into New Zealand’s varied natural landscapes (and how their diversity is reflected in our flora), we will once again document our adventures in these pages. Notes and observations from our wide-ranging travels for the upcoming book will be regularly posted in the Landscape section of the website.