Issue 156 November 2017

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Johnny Ellice-Flint is a recent graduate of the University of New South Wales landscape architecture program and an aspiring photographer. He works at Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture in Sydney. Alistair Kirkpatrick is a co-director of AKAS Landscap
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Tracking Australian Urban Design
In this issue of Landscape Architecture Australia we present full coverage of the 2017 Australian Urban Design Awards. The program is unique in that it’s truly multidisciplinary, open to professionals spanning engineering, architecture, landscape arc
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Noticeboard
The 2018 Landscape Australia Conference will explore Australia’s emerging position in the Asia-Pacific region and reveal insights into Asian landscape design cultures. The conference features an impressive line-up of keynote speakers from New Zealand
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Australian Urban Design Awards 2017
NOTE: WHERE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST WAS DECLARED BY A MEMBER OF THE JURY, THE JUROR ABSTAINED FROM THE CATEGORY IN QUESTION. TONSLEY INNOVATION DISTRICT OXIGEN, WOODS BAGOT, TRIDENTE ARCHITECTS, KBR, WSP AND RENEWAL SA ADELAIDE (SA) THE TONSLEY INNOVA
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Grassland: A Provocation
Wootten Road Reserve Tarneit, Victoria Glas Landscape Architecture Prior to the European settlement of Victoria, expansive native grasslands dominated the mostly flat, volcanic plains to the north and east of Melbourne. Despite their incredible ecolo
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California Dreaming: The Gardens Of Bernard Trainor
Australians sense a natural accord with the landscapes of California and their essentially Mediterranean characteristics. The geographical and botanical parallels were understood in the nineteenth century and openly discussed a hundred years ago.1 Mu
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Rob Adams: A Lesson In City Design
It’s hard to picture Melbourne in 1983, when Professor Rob Adams first arrived to join the project team tasked with writing the City of Melbourne Strategy Plan (1985). Thirty- four years on, Melbourne has flourished and the City Design team that he l
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Designing With Ecological Succession
Ecological succession can be defined as any landscape’s evolution from disturbance. These disturbances can range from extreme events, such as fire or deforestation, to more subtle activities like grazing or mowing. Many Australian bush landscapes are
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Lessons From Dry Lands
I n a mid-1900 address to the Oak Park Fellowship Club in Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright discussed many of the central preoccupations of his work; these are outlined in a polemic he wrote, entitled “Concerning Landscape Architecture.”1 Ostensibly a lect
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Review
I ’m in my garden in the warmth of the winter sun, listening to the chatter of birds and the buzz of rosemary shrouded in bees. I’m reading Gardens of the High Line, drawn in by the sumptuous photography that seeks to convey as much about the High Li
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Three Capes Track
Anarrative of suffering is inseparable from the natural beauty Port Arthur, from the European invasion of Tasmania and Port Arthur’s days as a notorious penal colony, to its more recent history as the site of Australia’s worst massacre. In something

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