Maintaining gestures: Rosny Park

n 1986, I was working for Scott and Furphy Consulting Group in Hobart as a “senior” landscape architect. I was new to Tasmania, not long out of university. At the time, Tasmanian landscape architects struggled to extend their purview beyond putting “rouge on the corpse.” Our palette of working materials was limited, plantings were a mix of exotics and “natives” and everything was hand-drawn and calculated by hand. Architects set the agenda and engineers ran the show. Nevertheless, I was excited to be landscape architect