Bruce Mackenzie was a doyen of the profession of landscape architecture in Australia. His practices, Bruce Mackenzie and Associates (BMA) and Bruce Mackenzie Design, jointly spanned more than fifty years. He was a reflective practitioner who valued empirical and practical knowledge and had an unshakeable conviction that good design sense must, first and foremost, consider the essential attributes of the Australian environment. Always the innovator and tireless campaigner, Mackenzie led from the front for the profession of landscape architecture and the public alike.
Born in Paddington, New South Wales in 1932, Mackenzie spent his
