Issue 157 February 2018

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Professor emeritus Helen Armstrong was the inaugural professor of landscape architecture at Queensland University of Technology (1997–2003). She is currently a practising landscape architect and research associate with a number of landscape architect
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Embracing The Asian Century
Follow us @landscapeau Like us facebook.com/landscapeau Follow us @landscapeau Visit us LandscapeAustralia.com In October 1973, Gough Whitlam controversially became the first Australian prime minister to visit China. Greeted by the sounds of Along th
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Concrete: The Foundation For The Urban Landscape
Concrete is a highly versatile construction material that delivers the resilience and durability required for projects in the harsh Australian environment. When used with good design and construction practise, concrete can form beautiful urban landsc
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Internationalism In Landscape Education
Formal landscape architectural education in Australia only began in the late 1960s and it seemed to adopt a relatively unmediated British approach, with an overlay of Australian environmentalism. Historically, landscape design has a long tradition of
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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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Reflections On An Australian Education
Across Australian universities, the media and the broader community we have grown accustomed to various attitudes toward Asian students. It is not uncommon to hear claims that these students are here to “buy a degree” to gain easy access to residency
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Early Engagement With Asia
Reflections on the theme of this issue of Landscape Architecture Australia reveal that my practice as a landscape architect in Australia has paralleled, over a professional lifetime, the development of Australia’s relationship with the Asian region,
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Building Partnerships
While working in northern Laos over a decade ago, I asked a local colleague to generate a simple business card to explain to officials (in the local dialect) that I was an Australian landscape architect with an interest in urban and land design and m
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China As A Laboratory For Change
It is expected that by 2050 more than 75 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas. As one of the most urbanized countries in the world, Australia has already surpassed this percentage. Like much of the Western world, Australia’s urb
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After Landscape
For some, life takes a defined course from school to university and then work, often in the same city and usually in the same country. This did not apply to Marieluise Jonas. Her desire to experience the new and unknown led her from her native German
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A Contemporary Asian Practice
In 2017 an almost kilometre-long park constructed on a stretch of redundant highway was opened in the centre of Seoul. Design blogs and media across the world disseminated the Dutch design practice MVRDV’s inspiration for the scheme. Claiming the par
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Material Thinking
I’ve come to a hotel forecourt in Seoul’s Itaewon district to meet a landscape architect whose practice holds rockstar status in South Korea’s landscape community. After a patchy phonecall, a black BMW mounts the curb, tinted windows roll down and I’
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Communicating Landscape Architecture In Asia
Published Seoul, South Korea Founded 1982 Editor Jeoungeun Kim, senior editor Landscape Architecture Australia — Could you tell us about the journal you edit? Jeoungeun Kim — Landscape Architecture Korea (LAK) magazine was founded in 1982 and has pub
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Bottom-up Placemaking
The contemporary cities of East Asia are perhaps best recognized for their sprawling development and glittering skylines. New central business districts were created to attract global capitals but many resulted in banal and ubiquitous development. La

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