Rachel de Lambert

Making places better, improving the way people live in and experience our landscapes, and seeking multiple benefits from projects are the things that drive me. At the same time, I appreciate the value of beauty; and the way quality landscape and environmental enhancement outcomes can improve our lives and secure a better long-term future.

My interests and skills encompass traditional landscape design, masterplanning, environmental planning and landscape assessment. I work collaboratively to achieve project outcomes. I often form part of a project's leadership team; working with a client to achieve consent-able projects that deliver environmental, social and community benefits along with achieving commercially viable outcomes. I like the challenge of complex projects that draw on a range of skills where I can contribute my expertise, challenge assumptions and find ways of doing things that go beyond the expected.

I am an experienced presenter with a passion for crafting the 'story' or rationale for each project, drawing on the wider graphic communication skills within Boffa Miskell to visualise and logically describe and define a process and / or proposal.

I have a number of roles related to design review, I am co-convenor of the Auckland Urban Design Panel and a long-standing member of the Eke Panuku Development Auckland 'Technical Advisory Group' or TAG.

I was one of the three principal authors of Te Tangi a te Manu, the Aotearoa New Zealand Landscape Assessment Guidelines

I appreciate the mounting challenges of our times. Having come in on the end of the baby boomer generation I feel a responsibility and commitment to use my skills to be part of finding solutions to the global challenges associated with environmental degradation and climate change.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Horticulture Science, Lincoln College, NZ
Diploma Landscape Architecture (distinction), Lincoln College

Affiliations

Fellow and Registered Member, New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (FNZILA)
Member, International Council on Monuments and Sites, New Zealand (ICOMOS)