His column is tackling the scandalous waste of NZ Graduate's youthful creativity by forcing them to engage their prime with the tedium of registration. To illustrate what we're losing the column features Adrian Kumar's powerful design for Auckland's recovery from sea-level rise with inhabited landscaped decks utilising the submerging office towers as base structure, done in our legendary Masters seminar in 2012.
Among the students Bernd mentored his yelp has already been widely appreciated. Given the uncertainties of a future that will test them far beyond 'best practice', which registration is targeting, the whole procedure of gaining Registered Architect should be adopted to new urgent demands.