Landscape Architecture Australia

Katrina Simon is associate dean of landscape architecture at RMIT University. Her research focuses on landscape change, explored through cities, maps and cemeteries. Bede Brennan is a senior landscape architect at Pollen Studio. He is interested in u

EMILY WONG KATELIN BUTLER JUDE ELLISON, JOSH HARRIS CLAIRE MARTIN, DAN YOUNG, JULIAN RAXWORTHY, CATHERIN BULL, RHYS WILLIAMS, VANESSA MARGETTS, TIM FITZGERALD GORAN RUPENA JACINTA REEDY IAN CLOSE JANE WHEELER MARK SCRUBY MICHAEL POLLARD DAI PRINT ■

Many of the articles in our May issue of Landscape Architecture Australia consider how technology is being integrated into design practice, both in the built forms and outcomes, and as part of the design process. The Drying Green is a 6,400-square-me

It’s an honour and a privilege to contribute this issue’s Viewpoint as the newly elected director and company secretary at AILA. In the past couple of years, I have been incredibly curious about the softer aspects of our practices as landscape archit

The signs of a crisis abound. Underwritten by global human population growth and our appetite for land and resources, potentially cataclysmic climate changes are combining to create a human-induced sixth mass extinction1 for global biodiversity, with

Plant Tiles Australia was founded by Franc and Jenny Coonan. The Coonans established Plant Tiles in response to both the changing needs of Australian homeowners and the nature of the backyards they maintain. As urban areas become more densely populat

Back in 1973, in an article entitled “Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems,” the Canadian ecologist C. S. Holling seminally contrasted urban infrastructure’s engineered fail-safe intentions with ecology’s safe-tofail “unpredictability.” Fif

Plants: Past, Present and Future is the latest offering in the remarkable First Knowledges series edited by Margo Neale. As the title suggests, the book positions plants in relation to deep time, then further explores them in the context of contempor