Reviews

Liam Mouritz reviews the 28th issue of Kerb Journal.

Beyond concepts of safety and inclusion, what other possibilities might be generated by queering landscape architecture? A lunch discussion held during Melbourne Design Week 2021 discussed the dismantling of binaries in practice.

Cassandra Chilton visits Monash University Museum of Art’s latest exhibition and encounters a wealth of works interrogating our multifaceted relationship with trees.

Catherin Bull reviews The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, a much-anticipated compendium of projects, essays and perspectives that examines landscape architecture, urbanism and the business of design across Asia.

Fergus Barker reviews the 2020 edition of RMIT University’s Approaching Landscape student conference, an annual program engaging themes shaping landscape architecture research and practice.

At Place Laboratory’s South Perth Foreshore, visitors can experience a refreshed interpretation of the site’s history and a renewed connection to the river.

A recent book by New Zealand-based academic Jacky Bowring highlights the need for more critical thinking, reflection and review in the design of the built environment.

Aspect Studios’ design for Prahran Square encourages interaction between diverse publics and raises questions about people’s expectations for public space.

Urban recreation and a heightened experience of the city’s dynamic environmental systems come together at Hassett Park by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture.

Darling Square by Aspect Studios is a dynamic example of landscape architecture’s role in leading urban regeneration.

The first volume in a series by Office touches on some of the most politicized interventions within the City of Melbourne.

Despite its popular success, Brisbane’s Roma Street Parkland reinforces the need to continue examining nature, landscape and social justice in landscape practice.

A milestone in Adelaide’s park history, River Torrens Linear Park offered an integrated model of ecological and social infrastructure.

Sydney Park is an ongoing demonstration of landscape architecture’s role in recalibrating human-nature relations.

Emma Sheppard-Simms reviews Julia Watson’s recent book that celebrates traditional ecological knowledge and land management systems.

Claire Martin reviews a recent book by the US-based Lincoln Institute of Land Policy that considers Scottish landscape architect Ian McHarg’s evolving legacy.

The Sky Park at One Melbourne Quarter by Aspect Oculus offers an opportunity to consider the meaning of public-private spaces as the city matures.

Canberra’s Garden of Australian Dreams challenged the aesthetics and sensibility of Australian landscape architecture.

A new park in Moscow’s centre draws Russia’s diverse landscapes into the city and creates an open and democratic space for cultural gathering.

A series of proposals for Perth’s waterfront produced during the nineties provokes reflection on climate change, contested histories and potential futures.

A recent book by Zoe Myers critically explores how spatial interventions can improve our mental health by connecting us to nature.

Melbourne’s Dyeworks Park is an early example of landscape architects creatively responding to the transformation of inner-city post-industrial sites.

The Future Park competition opens up possibilities for landscape architects, designers and the wider public to rethink the meaning of parks and how they might find new and expanded ambitions in the twenty-first century.

Barbara Norman reports on the key findings of the 2020 World Urban Forum held in Abu Dhabi.

Perched on a clifftop in Sydney’s Vaucluse, this garden by Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture favours intimacy and materiality over grand gestures.

Andrew Toland reviews the latest edition of Kerb Journal that presents a critical perspective on designers’ roles in the production of political space.

This reimagining of a town’s main street elevates the pedestrian experience while acknowledging the continuing role of cars in regional life.

Stacey Edwards considers the 2019 New Gen Program, which aimed to join young landscape architects with speakers from the 2019 International Festival of Landscape Architecture to discuss future concerns.

Sigrid Ehrmann reports on the themes and discussions of the Smart City Expo World Congress 2019, held in Barcelona in November.

Linda Corkery reflects on the 2019 AILA Festival that sought to examine key issues relating to the design and management of urban open space in contemporary conditions.

The Caulfield to Dandenong Level Crossing Removal Project demonstrates how integrated urban design thinking can shape progressive built outcomes.

Attention to scale and a coordinated approach to colour have created an inviting series of spaces, well-suited to individual and collective inhabitation.

The redevelopment of Perth’s iconic Scarborough foreshore by TCL and UDLA is bringing visitors, new and old, back in droves.

The rooftop gardens of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre are a bold demonstration of how diverse, drought-tolerant plantings can be used to create evocative, sensory spaces in challenging conditions.

Marked by fluid boundaries and tilted terrain, Muir and Openwork’s installation is a potent reflection on architecture, experience and the relationship of memory to place.

Based on a design philosophy to “start with green,” the Eve Apartments complex by 360 Degrees Landscape Architects is a humble example of the key role for landscape architects in Australia’s urban future.

A recent survey of the work of environmental artist Janet Laurence is a salient reminder of the large-scale consequences of human activity.

Margaret Grose’s book calls for a shift in how we approach landscape architectural research and practice.

Bungarribee Superpark by James Mather Delaney Design celebrates the rapid transformation of Western Sydney, playfully stitching new elements into the remnant landscape while restoring and framing the site’s grassland heart.

Claire Martin reviews a recent documentary on the work of the noted Dutch garden designer.