Issue 162 May 2019

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Jacky Bowring is professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University. She has written books on memory, emotion and landscape and is the editor of the Landscape Review. Catherin Bull AM is emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the Univ
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Perspective
Follow us @landscapeau Like us facebook.com/landscapeau Follow us @landscapeau Visit us LandscapeAustralia.com We’re excited to welcome our keynote speakers to Melbourne on 11 May for the Landscape Australia Conference. We’re anticipating much debate
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Noticeboard
The Victorian Government has committed $5 million to begin work on the planning and design of a new nature and science precinct at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. The plans include the restoration and expansion of the National Herbarium of Victori
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The Landscape Of Country
For Aboriginal people, Country differs from the concepts of landscape or space in that it is inseparable from both notions of the human world and the environment. Australian ethnographer Deborah Bird Rose has described Country as “a living entity wit
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Doubleground
Doubleground Melbourne, Victoria Muir and Openwork As you emerge from Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and enter the courtyard, it’s unclear where Doubleground, the 2018 NGV Architecture Commission by Muir and Openwork begins or ends. I
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Elevating The Botanical
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre rooftop spaces Melbourne, Victoria Rush Wright Associates In comparison to their European and North American counterparts, Australian landscape architects have been relatively slow in getting rooftop gardens off
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Concrete: Sculpting Our Urban Landscapes
Concrete is a visually pleasing and highly versatile construction material that delivers the resilience and durability required for projects in the harsh Australian environment. When combined with well-considered design and construction practices, co
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Designing For Novel Ecologies
Much has been written about dogs and cats seeking out human company and the forging of a relationship beneficial to both. But what if there was a plant that was capable of the same thing? A plant that domesticates itself to take advantage of humans,
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Caring For Country, Shifting Camp
In the Gumbaynggirr Aboriginal language, Yandaarra means “to shift camp together.” As Yandaarra, we walk together, shift camp together, and live and work in, with and as Country. We are at a point where a radical shift is necessary, to learn how to b
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Sites Unseen
The residue of both manmade and natural events saturates our landscapes, sometimes this residue is profoundly evident, other times it is more obscure. The recent works of Melbourne-based artist James Geurts register such potent forces – foregrounding
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Beyond Resiliency
We often discuss climate change in relation to rising temperatures, storm surges and sea level rise and the impacts these will have on where and how we live. This brings to bear the specific, localized environmental and urban challenges that we face,
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Advocacy Through Design
In 2018 Bangkok was the world’s most visited city for the third year in a row, sitting ahead of London and Paris, which came in at second and third place respectively. Yet in the much-hyped Economist Global Liveability Index, Bangkok scored a glum ni
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Immaterial Worlds
Interview Since founding her Bangkok-based practice Sanitas Studio in 2010, Sanitas Pradittasnee has created works that blur the boundaries between art and landscape, reinterpreting traditional ideas for a rapidly changing urban context. In preparati
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Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening
To design is to make a proposition about an imagined future. To design environments, as with architecture, engineering and landscape architecture, is to presume that it is possible to predetermine the form and elements of the design – to know not onl
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Constructed Ecologies: Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design
Landscape architecture needs a wake-up call. And Margaret Grose’s book Constructed Ecologies: Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design1 offers a vigorous shake-up that is unflinching in its challenges to the profession. The chapter headings alone
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Arcadian Spirit: Hugh Main
For those who know him well, there are two Hugh Mains. One is the charming, boyish urban landscape designer with a tattoo of flowering tendrils descending his left arm. A man delighting in subtle gardens and thoughtful clients. The other Hugh Main is

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