Pocock Design Environment

Biography

Craig has lived and worked extensively in design and project management in New Zealand, Jordan, Palestine, India and the United States. He has fourteen years of professional practice as a landscape architect.

Much of Craig’s design work focuses on applying the collective knowledge of traditional sustainable practices from the Middle East, Central Asia as well as contemporary sustainable North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Craig has been involved in a number of critiques and lectures at Philadelphia University and Yale University Schools of Architecture on the subjects of cross cultural design and sustainability. Craig is the examiner for the Sustainable Landscape Design paper at Lincoln University.

Craig has also worked with the NZILA to write the guides lines to landscape sustainability for the NZILA design awards and associated articles. He has also recently been published international on the subject of Managing the Carbon Impact of Landscape Design.

Career

2005-2010
Director
Pocock design:environment
Christchurch, New Zealand

2001-2004
Landscape Architect
CLR Design Project
Philadelphia

Projects Director
Margie Ruddick Landscape
New York

Director
Pocock Environmental Planning and Design
New York

1998-1999
Landscape Architect
Zara Consultancy & Project Management
Bethlehm Palestine, Amman and Jordan

1993-1996
Landscape Architect
Whakatane District Council
Whakatane

Biography

A US citizen by birth, Alexa spent much of her childhood in the South Western United States before commencing high school in Italy where, after six years, some might say she had “gone native”.

She then returned to the US, this time to New York for University (the historical Vassar College) only to leave upon completion, heading to Jordan (through the US Peace Corps and the Jordan River Foundation) to gain experience in international business and economic development (and incidentally a Kiwi spouse).

With the goal of progressing her career in international business development, she sought a post graduate law degree (at the University of Pennsylvania) and then legal work (at the top UK/international firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP) in international project finance and structured finance.

Eventually relocating to New Zealand with her young family, she continued to work in international business development locally while intermittently contributing to the work undertaken by Pocock Design Environment.

Currently she works for Pocock Design Environment employing her various skills of law, philosophy, international business and cultural nuance in a range of capacities from project management and corporate strategy to administration and editing.

Career

2010
Project Manager and Administration
Pocock design:environment
Christchurch, New Zealand

2007-2010
Assistant to the Managing Director
James Dunlop Textiles Limited
Christchurch, New Zealand

Summer 2002, 2003-2004
Associate Attorney
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
New York

2001
Supervisor
Custody and Support Assistance Clinic
Philadelphia

1999
Staff Cultural and Technical Trainer
US Peace Corps
Madaba, Jordan

1997-1999
Volunteer Program Manager
US Peace Corps
Wadi Rayan and Amman, Jordan

Biography

Chris has worked as a landscape architect at Pocock Design Environment Limited since 2007. During this time he has participated in the design, project management and production of projects in New Zealand, Australia, India and the United States.

As one of the top graduates (First Honour Second Class) from Lincoln University’s B.L.A programme in 2007, Chris has developed his professional skills throughout all aspects of the landscape architectural practice.

Born and raised in the People’s Republic of China, Chris questions the typical definition of Sustainability in western text books and uses his experience of living, studying and working in a different country as an advantage to gain fresh viewpoints and approaches to landscape and urban design issues.

Chris has participated in regional and city wide structure planning workshops in New Zealand, in which he contributes to the team as a landscape architect and more importantly learns from highly experienced landscape architects, urban designers, planers and architects.

Chris has also been involved in the studio portion of the Sustainable Landscape Design paper at Lincoln University as a Tutor, critiquing students’ design work and helping them develop a better understanding in the subject of sustainability.

Career

2007-2010
Landscape Architect
Pocock design:environment
Christchurch, New Zealand