At its start, the editors and authors of the The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Heike Rahmann from RMIT University and Jillian Walliss from The University of Melbourne, reiterate the collective view of those involved in the book’s production, that “defining Asia is an impossibility” and that rather than provide “a national catalogue or record of ‘Asian’ design projects,” the book should “aim to build a picture of what it means to design, do business, and think about nature, space, and urbanism with an Asian sensibility.”
With essays and commentary by 20 authors, academics and practitioners from across Asia and Australia, and a description of