A special issue of Architecture NZ on New Zealand's  architectural diaspora is calling for architects abroad to get in touch, pass it on!

This special issue is quite appropriately guest-edited by three ex-pats who find themselves in Melbourne, Justine Clark (current Editor of Architecture Australia), Paul Walker (current Associate Professor and Deputy Dean, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning), and Peter Johns, architect and Editor of industry website Butterpaper.com.

The three have created a simple questionnaire for New Zealanders abroad who have architectural backgrounds to respond to. It's easy and well worth contributing to.

They preface the issue with these questions:

"New Zealand has the world’s highest percentage of citizens living overseas, and this includes a lot of architects. What does this mean for New Zealand architecture and how we understand it? What if we think of “New Zealand” as a network as well as a geographic location?

Who are these expatriate architects? What do they do and where do they live?"

Responses to the questionnaire will be used to create infographic spreads and selected biographical anecdotes drawn from the responses.

Please flick this on to your colleagues overseas, I know for certain there are plenty around, and I think this is a significant area of interest for our profession and discipline to reflect on.

Here is the direct link to the questionnaire:
http://agmpublishing.wufoo.com/forms/architecture-nz-abroad/

Perhaps not coincidentally, AGM Publishers (the Australasian publishers responsible for Architecture NZ along with Houses NZ, Landscape Architecture NZ, ProDesign and Urbis among plenty more), are currently looking for a new Editor, see the call for EOI here.