Issue 179 August 2023

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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EDITOR EMILY WONG EDITORIAL DIRECTOR KATELIN BUTLER EDITORIAL TEAM JUDE ELLISON, JOSH HARRIS CONTRIBUTING EDITORS CLAIRE MARTIN, DAN YOUNG, JULIAN RAXWORTHY, CATHERIN BULL, RHYS WILLIAMS, VANESSA MARGETTS, TIM FITZGERALD GRAPHIC DESIGN / PRODUCTION G
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Contributors
Barnaby Bennett is a senior design advisor at Government Architect NSW. Bede Brennan is a senior landscape architect at Pollen Studio. He is interested in urban ecologies and designing for the non-human world. Natalia Krysiak is an associate at Hayba
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Starting With The Small
This issue of Landscape Architecture Australia shifts away from the large-scale, the well-known and the grandiose aspects of our environments to focus on the smaller, often less visually spectacular elements. Big projects, large moves and expansive s
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Is Landscape Architecture Really Like Whisky?
As an AILA director, I recently asked a group of landscape architects in public practice about their experience with our membership organization. They offered me an analogy of whisky and landscape architecture, which I’ll get to later. But first, I w
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Considering Small Practice
Rosie Halsmith – Please introduce your practice and practice size. Joel Barker – At See Design Studio we’re six in total, with two full-timers and four part-timers. Greg Grabasch – I’m from Brave and Curious. We’re a collaborative of three. We all ru
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Suburban Refuge: Designing For Biodiversity In Our Cities
Cities across Australia have been trying to reverse the trend of urban sprawl by densifying. In Melbourne this is being enacted through the principle of the “20-minute neighbourhood.”1 The “middle belt” areas – those between 10 and 20 kilometres from
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Collecting The Community Together: Melbourne Pollinator Corridor
The Melbourne Pollinator Corridor (MPC) is a large-scale landscape project undertaken by a non-landscape architect. The eight-kilometre wildlife corridor links Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens and Westgate Park via a growing number of small, communi
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Network Connections
Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and environmental photographer based in Australia and Switzerland. She has authored numerous books, including The Allure of Fungi (2018), Underground Lovers: Encounters with Fungi (2023) and, most recently, Meetings wit
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Small Infrastructures: Enabling Good Habits
The evidence is clear: to respond to the current mix of global crises, we need greener, denser cities with less traffic and more public amenity. These solutions frequently fail at the local scale, however. One way to resolve this dilemma is to view m
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Ground-up Transformation: Decolonizing The Garden
Decolonizing the Garden – Country as Co-author, Park Orchards, Victoria Built on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin nation Realmstudios Hands-on experience of working with the soil has guided Realmstudios director Jon Shinkfie
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An Adaptive Attitude: The Roundtable
The Roundtable, North Melbourne, Victoria Built on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation Common and Enlocus As designers, many of what we consider our best ideas will never be built. Some succumb to budgets or changes in s
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Elevating The Minor Player
Small plants are often overlooked in our planting designs. Compared to larger plants, they can be harder to cultivate and grow, they have lower perceived value, they’re more easily taken over, and they don’t necessarily have the same immediate impact
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Cultural Load And The Small Change
Cultural load can be defined in different ways. For me as a Wiradjuri woman, it’s the load of having to explain and educate others in Aboriginal* cultures, identities and ways of thinking and being. It can be the load of having to choose the “right”
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Fostering A Meadow Mentality
The agenda to improve ecological function in hostile urban sites such as railway corridors, roadside verges, roundabouts and nature strips has often been undermined by limited budgets and maintenance access, along with failures of imagination. Howeve
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Playful Expectations
While visiting Tokyo – one of the densest cities in the world – I found myself standing in a public playpark created to facilitate children’s unstructured, nature-based play. As you walk through the gates, you observe a joyful and exhilarating array
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Vale Jim Sinatra 3 February 1942 – 25 April 2023
Jim Sinatra – provocateur, humanist, artist, landscape architect, educator, inspiration, family man, friend and more – has left for larger landscapes. He was equally at ease whether meeting a presidential candidate, sitting on the ground with an Abor
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Regional Visions: Putting Together The Small Pieces Of A Large Puzzle
Australia’s biggest cities steal the show. Recognizable projects in the capitals and from the awards grace many a design practice’s boardroom. But what about the regions and our so-called “second-tier” cities – places like Newcastle, Wollongong, Geel
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Landscape Architects as Change Makers
Landscape Architects as Change Makers, an exhibition curated by Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann in collaboration with Saran Kim, was a layered sensory experience of interviews, site footage, sketches, construction drawings and photographs. A compar

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