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    Jul 29, 2019 6 minutes

    Landscape Architecture Australia caught up with Doxiadis to talk balancing tensions and the politics of practice.

    Interview

    Landscape Architecture Australia: Your Landscapes of Cohabitation project considers the integration of a residential estate into a highly sensitive environment. How did that project begin?

    Thomas Doxiadis: It began with me coming back [to Greece] from [studying landscape architecture in the States] with a head full of ideas, but not a lot of practical experience, and being faced with a problem. A friend, a developer, had decided to buy property on a completely pristine part of the island of Antiparos. My first reaction when visiting the site was that the development was going to destroy this amazing place. The landscape of Antiparos is not natural, it’s a synthesis of nature and culture and has been cultivated and influenced by humans for a long time. We were about to go in there and start bulldozing. [I felt] pain and this dichotomy, because as landscape architects we’re called upon to

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